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'That's not a bug, it's a feature' takes on a darker tone when malware's involved

by Rupert Goodwins / 4h

Mummy, where do zero days come from? Opinion One of the charms of coding is that malice can be indistinguishable from incompetence. Last week's Who, Me? story about financial transfer test software running amok is a case in point.…

Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, 'did it for the money'

Israeli hacker faces US extradition

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by Jessica Lyons / 12h

Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August An alleged LockBit ransomware developer is in custody in Israel and awaiting extradition to the United States.…

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push

Passkeys gain traction for security

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37by Thomas Claburn / 5d

Enrollment invitations will continue until security improves Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success.…

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UK ICO not happy with Google's plans to allow device fingerprinting

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 16h

Also, Ascension notifies 5.6M victims, Krispy Kreme bandits come forward, LockBit 4.0 released, and more in brief Google has announced plans to allow its business customers to begin "fingerprinting" users next year, and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) isn't happy about it. …

Dec 19, 2024

Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams

by Laura Dobberstein / 3d

Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for red team raiders who test enterprise systems.…

Dec 18, 2024

Don't fall for a mail asking for rapid Docusign action – it may be an Azure account hijack phish

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by Jessica Lyons / 4d

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Phishing campaign targets Azure credentials

Recent campaign targeted 20,000 folk across UK and Europe with this tactic, Unit 42 warns Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried to steal account credentials and then hijack the victims' Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.…

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

US considers banning TP-Link routers

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by Jessica Lyons / 5d

It could end up like Huawei -Trump's gonna get ya, get ya, get ya updated The Feds may ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US over ongoing national security concerns about Chinese-made devices being used in cyberattacks.…

Boffins trick AI model into giving up its secrets

TPUXtract enables AI model theft

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by Thomas Claburn / 5d

All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days Computer scientists from North Carolina State University have devised a way to copy AI models running on Google Edge Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), as used in Google Pixel phones and third-party machine learning accelerators.…

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