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Today's cyber news highlights several key threats and trends. Hackers are increasingly targeting AI systems, as demonstrated by a recent incident where credentials were stolen, leading to $740,000 in unauthorized compute usage for a cloud provider. Microsoft researchers revealed vulnerabilities in AI models, showing that attackers can create backdoors by manipulating just a few neurons. Additionally, recent updates for Slackware address critical security issues, including remote code execution and memory errors in their httpd and Git packages. The ongoing risk of vehicle hacking is underscored by a podcast discussing how attackers can gain control over car systems. As cyber threats evolve, organizations must prioritize robust security measures against these emerging vulnerabilities.
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In the world of cybersecurity, there are “loud” companies, the ones whose logos you see on every corner, and then there are the “backbone” companies. These are the giants that hum quietly in the background, processing healthcare claims, managing highway tolls, and cutting child support checks. Condu...
Martin Schobert discovered that Ceph did not properly verify SSL
certificates when using Pybind for secure mail connections, which could
result in accepting invalid certificates. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to perform an intermediary attack and access mail server
credentials or message...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
SolarWinds addressed four critical Serv-U vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain root access to unpatched servers. SolarWinds released updates fixing four critical Serv-U vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution, potentially giving attackers full root access on unpatched servers. Serv...
One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.
Session 13C: Side Channels 2
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruixuan Li (Choudhury), Chaithanya Naik Mude (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sanjay Das (The University of Texas at Dallas), Preetham Chandra Tikkireddi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Swamit Tannu (University of Wisconsin, Madis...
SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.…
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
When systems are attacked, we should respond. But how much better would it be if we could anticipate attacks before they strike and stop them with a proactive defense?
Faced with today’s cybersecurity challenges, that is no simple task.
“It’s a cat-and-mouse situation....
The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned.
It was discovered that improper initialization of CPU cache memory could
allow a local attacker with hypervisor access to overwrite SEV-SNP guest
memory resulting in loss of data integrity. (CVE-2024-36331)
Oleksii Oleksenko, Cedric Fournet, Jana Hofmann, Boris Köpf, Stavros Volos,
and Flavien Solt...
A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue.
The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven vulnerability has been codenamed RoguePilot by Orca Security. It has since been patched...
To protect private information stored in text embeddings, it’s essential to de-identify the text before embedding and storing it in a vector database. In this article, we'll demonstrate how to de-identify and chunk text using Tonic Textual, and then easily embed these chunks and store the data in a...
Preparing the data for use with generative AI tools is a major impediment that affects time-to-value for enterprise AI use cases. We've expanded Tonic Textual’s functionality to take your unstructured data from raw to AI-ready in just a few minutes, while you ensure that sensitive data is protected....
New ransomware of choice, same critical targets North Korea’s Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and C...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
The ShinyHunters extortion group has published personal information in more than 12 million records allegedly stolen from CarGurus, a U.S.-based digital auto platform. [...]
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
L'autorité italienne de protection des données (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali - GPDP) a publié une décision interdisant à Amazon Italia Logistica srl de traiter les données personnelles de ses salariés pour des manquements en lien avec la collecte systématique d'informations non perti...
L'organisation noyb a publié une analyse critique de la proposition de "Paquet Omnibus Numérique" présentée par la Commission européenne, qui vise à modifier le RGPD et la directive ePrivacy.La proposition, datée du 19 novembre 2025, a fait l'objet d'un rapport détaillé de noyb, mis à jour le 20 jan...