Meta’s Virtual Reality Headset Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks: Researcher

Researcher shows how hackers could use social engineering to deliver ransomware and other malware to Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset.
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AI Weights: Securing the Heart and Soft Underbelly of Artificial Intelligence

AI model weights govern outputs from the system, but altered or ‘poisoned’, they can make the output erroneous and, in extremis, useless and dangerous.
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Aim Security Raises $18M to Secure Customers’ Implementation of AI Apps

Aim Security has raised a total of $28 million to date and is on a mission to help companies to implement AI products with confidence.
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Dangerous Liaisons: The Interaction Between Threat Actors and High-Risk Devices

Forescout’s 2024 analysis of the riskiest devices highlights vulnerabilities and threat actor interactions across IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT.
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Resurgence of Ransomware: Mandiant Observes Sharp Rise in Criminal Extortion Tactics

Mandiant saw an increase in ransomware activity in 2023 compared to 2022, including a 75% increase in posts on data leak sites.
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New Endpoint Protection Platform by Cigent Blocks Ransomware at the Data Level

The two primary components to the solution are to encrypt company data at all times, and to decrypt only when the file is required for use.
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