"Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million."

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Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million

by Connor Jones / 2h

Incident sounds like a BEC fraud targeting an unwitting staffer Luxembourg-based chemicals and manufacturing giant Orion SA is telling US regulators that it will lose out on around $60 million after it was targeted by a criminal wire fraud scheme.…

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

by Jessica Lyons / 3h

Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old Despite worries about criminals using prompt injection to trick large language models (LLMs) into leaking sensitive data or performing other destructive actions, most of these types of AI shenanigans come from job seekers trying to get their resumes past automated HR screeners – and people protesting generative AI for various

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'Digital arrest' scams are big in India and may be spreading

Delhi woman loses 2 lakh scam

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by Laura Dobberstein / 8h

Bad guys claim they're cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones' crimes go away A woman in the Indian city of Delhi last week found herself under "digital arrest" – a form of scam in which victims make payments to criminals posing as law enforcement officers.…

AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs

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by Matthew Connatser / 10h

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CVE-2023-31315

Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this Some AMD processors dating back to 2006 have a security vulnerability that's a boon for particularly underhand malware and rogue insiders, though the chip designer is only patching models made since 2020.…

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