Dec 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threats / Weekly Recap This week’s cyber world is like a big spy movie. Hackers are breaking into other hackers’ setups, sneaky malware is hiding in popular software, and AI-powered scams…
Dec 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligenc / Vulnerability Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in the DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that, if successfully exploited, could permit a bad actor to take control of…
Dec 09, 2024The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Passwordless Identity security is all the rage right now, and rightfully so. Securing identities that access an organization’s resources is a sound security model. But IDs have their…
A malicious botnet called Socks5Systemz is powering a proxy service called PROXY.AM, according to new findings from Bitsight. “Proxy malware and services enable other types of criminal activity adding uncontrolled layers of anonymity to the…
Dec 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Cryptocurrency In yet another software supply chain attack, it has come to light that two versions of a popular Python artificial intelligence (AI) library named ultralytics were compromised…
Dec 07, 2024The Hacker NewsEnterprise Security / Threat Prevention Cybercriminals know that privileged accounts are the keys to your kingdom. One compromised account can lead to stolen data, disrupted operations, and massive business losses. Even…
Dec 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web3 Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new scam campaign that leverages fake video conferencing apps to deliver an information stealer called Realst targeting people working in Web3 under…
Dec 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Election Fraud In a historic decision, Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election amid allegations of Russian interference. As a…
Dec 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Mobile Security A Russian programmer accused of donating money to Ukraine had his Android device secretly implanted with spyware by the Federal Security Service (FSB) after he was detained earlier…
Dec 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaws impacting open-source machine learning (ML) tools and frameworks such as MLflow, H2O, PyTorch, and MLeap that could pave the way for…