Category Archives: attack

CISOs’ strategies for managing a growing attack surface

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In this Help Net Security interview, Rickard Carlsson, CEO at Detectify, discusses the evolution of attack surface management in the context of remote work and digital transformation. Carlsson highlights the challenges CISOs face today, including maint… Continue reading CISOs’ strategies for managing a growing attack surface→

“Perfect” Windows downgrade attack turns fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days

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A researcher has developed a downgrade attack that can make Windows machines covertly, persistently and irreversibly vulnerable, even if they were fully patched before that. A downgrade attack exploiting the Windows Update process The direction of Safe… Continue reading “Perfect” Windows downgrade attack turns fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days→

Omni Hotels suffer prolonged IT outage due to cyberattack

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Texas-based Omni Hotels & Resorts has been responding to a cyberattack that started last Friday, which resulted in the unavailability of many of its IT systems. According to people staying at some of the 50 properties the company operates across N… Continue reading Omni Hotels suffer prolonged IT outage due to cyberattack→

Escalating cyber threats: Bots, fraud farms, and cryptojacking surge, urgently requiring attention

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The motivations behind cyberattacks are as diverse as the methods employed. Whether driven by financial gain, political agendas, or sheer malice, cybercriminals exploit weaknesses in cybersecurity defenses, seeking entry points to compromise sensitive … Continue reading Escalating cyber threats: Bots, fraud farms, and cryptojacking surge, urgently requiring attention→

Researchers automated jailbreaking of LLMs with other LLMs

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AI security researchers from Robust Intelligence and Yale University have designed a machine learning technique that can speedily jailbreak large language models (LLMs) in an automated fashion. “The method, known as the Tree of Attacks with Pruni… Continue reading Researchers automated jailbreaking of LLMs with other LLMs→