Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines

November 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month. Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about

Google To Make MFA Mandatory for Google Cloud in 2025

November 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Google has recently announced that it plans to implement mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all Cloud accounts by the end of 2025. Google argues that MFA strengthens security without sacrificing

Threat Actors Hijack Windows Systems Using the New SteelFox Malware

November 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A new malware named ‘SteelFox’ is actively used by threat actors to mine cryptocurrency and steal credit card data. The malware leverages the BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable Device) technique

AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”

November 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI” The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible.

Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks

November 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being harnessed to automate

Subverting LLM Coders

November 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Subverting LLM Coders Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection“: Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code com-pletion

A Snapshot of Cyber Threats: Highlights from the ENISA Threat Landscape 2024 Report

November 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Understanding the threats we face is crucial to protecting against them. Industry research and reports are invaluable to this understanding, providing insights to inform mitigation efforts. Few cybersecurity reports are

IntelBroker Claims Selling Nokia’s Source Code on BreachForums

November 6, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Nokia is investigating a potential data breach after Serbian hacker IntelBroker claimed to sell the company’s source code. The attacker said he got the data by breaching one of the

Interlock Ransomware Specifically Targets FreeBSD Servers

November 6, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Interlock ransomware operators created an encryptor meant to target FreeBSD servers. This is a practice that hackers often use in attacks on VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines. Now, the

IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet

November 6, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part;