Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. The threat actors behind the DuneQuixote campaign took steps to prevent collection and analysis the implants through the implementation of practical and well-designed evasion methods.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Generative AI makes use of a large language model ( LLM ) – an advanced algorithm that applies deep learning techniques to massive data sets. Every piece of information becomes a part of the model’s vast knowledge base. Threat intelligence vendor Cybersixgill for instance launched Cybersixgill IQ at Black Hat.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Once the malware has escalated the privileges on a machine, the threat actors use a batch script to uninstall popular antivirus solutions installed on the machine.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 22, 2024

That means making more sustainable choices about how models are built, trained, and used, where processing occurs, what infrastructure is used, and how open and collaborative we are along the way.” IBM is focused on developing energy-efficient methods to train, tune and run AI models, such as its own Granite foundation models.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

The National Security Agency (NSA) published a document to explain the advantages of implementing a zero-trust model. The National Security Agency (NSA) recently published a document to explain the benefits of adopting a zero-trust model, and advice to navigate the process. Assuming all devices and infrastructure may be compromised.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. The researchers reported that the investments into exploit mitigations for across browsers and operating systems are impacting the offensive capabilities of threat actors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2023

Searchlight Cyber researchers warn of threat actors that are offering on the dark web access to energy sector organizations. Dark web intelligence firm Searchlight Cyber published a report that analyzes how threat actors in the dark web prepare their malicious operations against energy organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IaaS is a cloud computing model that uses the internet to supply virtualized computer resources. These types of security misconfigurations are a prevalent issue, often caused by human error during cloud resource setup and administration. Attackers may try to exploit these flaws to decode and access sensitive data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

offers intuitive tooling for powerful foundation models; watsonx.data enables compute-efficient, scalable workloads wherever data resides; and the third component, watsonx.governance , provides guardrails essential to responsible implementation. ISVs need the flexibility to choose models appropriate to their industry, domain and use case.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Multiple nation-state actors are exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI ChatGPT, to automate their attacks and increase their sophistication. LLM-advised resource development : Using LLMs in tool development, tool modifications, and strategic operational planning.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

At the same time, digital resilience has arisen as a top priority for enterprises across all sectors, especially as cyber threats continue to accelerate. Cyber threats impact. Some 30 percent of enterprise organizations surveyed said that they had already adopted a Zero Trust model. Strategy reassessment needed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Researchers linked a sophisticated botnet, tracked as KV-Botnet, to the operation of the China-linked threat actor Volt Typhoon. The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies linked a small office/home office (SOHO) router botnet, tracked as KV-Botnet to the operations of China-linked threat actor Volt Typhoon.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How to Protect Your Machine Learning Models madhav Thu, 02/15/2024 - 07:20 Contributors: Dr. Werner Dondl and Michael Zunke Introduction In computer technology, few fields have garnered as much attention as artificial intelligence ( AI) and machine learning (ML). Let’s look at where the vulnerabilities lie and how they can be addressed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

How to protect your machinelearning Models richard-r.stew… Tue, 02/20/2024 - 21:50 Dr. Werner Dondl and Michael Zunke In computer technology, few fields have garnered as much attention as artificial intelligence ( [KD1] [RJ2] AI) and machine learning (ML). Let’s look at where the vulnerabilities lie and how they can be addressed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

How to protect your machinelearning Models richard-r.stew… Tue, 02/20/2024 - 21:50 Dr. Werner Dondl and Michael Zunke In computer technology, few fields have garnered as much attention as artificial intelligence ( [KD1] [RJ2] AI) and machine learning (ML). Let’s look at where the vulnerabilities lie and how they can be addressed.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

“As the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are actively being improved, the potential exploitation of these types of AI systems by criminals provide a grim outlook.” For a potential criminal with little technical knowledge, this is an invaluable resource to produce malicious code.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Researchers detailed the multi-millionaire market of zero-day exploits, a parallel economy that is fueling the threat landscape. The researchers have observed threat actors claiming that they could sell zero-day exploits for up to $10,000,000. High-rollers: threat actors that sell and buy zero-day exploits for $1,000,000-plus.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It’s based on practical use cases, so companies can better evaluate security issues and get examples of common tactics and techniques used by threat actors. According to MITRE, there are four primary use cases where the document base can be beneficial: Threat intelligence. Resource Development: Creating resources to support operations.

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AIIM

JANUARY 24, 2023

What is the business model, and how is the company earning revenue? What is the feasibility of implementing each use case based on the maturity of the technology, level of effort, resources, and other priorities? Imagine possible scenarios based on opportunities and threats. ChatGPT’s value is in its ever-growing data model.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Zero Trust security model : Embrace a Zero Trust approach, ensuring that every access request, regardless of the source, is verified before granting access rights. Visibility and monitoring : Gain extensive visibility into workload identities and access permissions, enabling swift detection and response to potential security threats.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2023

Threat actors can abuse this feature to host malicious content and share links to these resources in their attacks. “To validate our hypothesis of threat modeling abuse scenario, we ran a Python-based HTTP server on port 8080, forwarded and exposed the port publicly. . ” the researchers concluded.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

BulletProofLink service was very cheap and allowed threat actors to arrange phishing campaigns without specific technical capabilities. BulletProofLink has been active since 2015, it was used by thousands of threat actors in either one-off or monthly subscription-based business models. reported Microsoft. “In

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The availability of large and well-formed training sets is a major problem for the implementation of machine learning models. dataset, labels, detection metadata, and complete binaries, Experts also released a set of pre-trained PyTorch ( [link] ) models and LightGBM ( [link] ) models trained on this dataset.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

The free subscription offers access to the WhiteRabbitNeo 33B parameter model, a fine-tuned version of LLaMA 2, with a restriction of 50 usage per day. This model attempts to help users with both offensive and defensive cybersecurity responsibilities. HackerGPT collaborates with WhiteRabbitNeo to offer comprehensive AI assistance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

FICAM definitions Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) is a comprehensive framework of security protocols designed to aid federal organizations in managing, monitoring, and securing access to their resources. Core principles of FICAM ICAM security is built on three fundamental pillars: Identity, credentials, and access.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

Figure 2: ROI potential by transforming into an AI+ enterprise Organizations with high data maturity that embed an AI+ transformation model into the enterprise fabric and culture can generate up to 2.6 Consider the following: Do you need a public foundation model? times higher ROI. Should you build your own? If so, where will it run?

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 15, 2024

The latest findings of the IBM X-Force® Threat Intelligence Index report highlight a shift in the tactics of attackers. Challenges of traditional security awareness programs Most security awareness programs today provide employees with information they need about handling data, GDPR rules and common threats, such as phishing.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

Spear phishing, or even bribery of an insider, are tried-and-true ways to gain initial access; and then living-off-the-land techniques work very well for stealthily mapping network resources and escalating privileges. Out of this comes whitelists and blacklists on which malware filters are based. Granular scrutiny. Golden image’ validation.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Circular economy: When waste is a resource Waste not, want not: the circular economy model, which aims to minimize unnecessary waste and make the most of resources, is booming. 2 For example, some are turning to software solutions that can more easily capture, manage and report ESG data. trillion in economic benefits by 2030.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our administration knows how important it is to protect our municipal governments, small businesses, and community organizations from cybersecurity threats,” said Secretary Yvonne Hao of the Executive Office of Economic Development.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of focusing only on your perimeter to defend against attacks from the outside, zero trust assumes that threats are ubiquitous and pervasive. Therefore, each user, device, and application within your network must verify that it isn’t a threat before it can proceed. Insider threats are still a risk.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

Additionally, manual investigation of threats slows down their overall threat response times (80% of respondents), with 38% saying manual investigation slows them down “a lot.” Clearly, organizations today need new technologies and approaches to stay ahead of attackers and the latest threats.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Companies now reach for SaaS apps for clerical chores, conferencing, customer relationship management, human resources, salesforce automation, supply chain management, web content creation and much more, even security. SaaS vendors, of course, readily adopted the shared responsibility model pushed out by the IT infrastructure giants.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. Remote Access & Security Measures Remote access is enabled; possible security problems resolved by cloud provider protocols; shared resources may affect performance.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Many attribute this steady growth to the increase in work-from-home models and adoption of cloud services since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Underlying all of this optimism, however, is the ever-present threat of cyberattack. This way, you automatically prevent unauthorized employees from accessing specific resources.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Tor Project removed several relays that were used as part of a cryptocurrency scheme and represented a threat to the users. Anyone with the necessary technical knowledge and resources can set up and operate a Tor relay. The Tor Project announced the removal of multiple network relays that were involved in a cryptocurrency scheme.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Cloud workload protection (CWP) is the process of monitoring and securing cloud workloads from threats, vulnerabilities, and unwanted access, and is typically accomplished via Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP). CWPPs maintain vulnerability databases that are routinely updated to reflect current threat intelligence.

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