The scam tweets often appear to be from well-known crypto accounts like Binance and Ethereum, but they lead to unrelated users promoting fake giveaways, wallet-draining websites, and pump-and-dump schemes.
Prompt injection poses a significant threat to LLM integrity, especially when LLM-powered agents interact with external systems, and safeguarding their operations requires meticulous attention to confidentiality levels and access controls.
The security updates for Firefox 121 include patches for critical vulnerabilities like a heap buffer overflow bug in WebGL and a side-channel attack vulnerability in Network Security Services (NSS) NIST curves.
Cybersecurity training startup SimSpace has raised $45 million in a funding round led by L2 Point Management, bringing its total raised to $70 million. It creates digital replicas of organizations’ tech and networking stacks for training purposes.
Seedworm (aka Muddywater) continues to use a combination of living-off-the-land and publicly available tools, but has also developed its own custom tools, such as a custom build of Venom Proxy and a custom keylogger.
The U.S. intelligence community has stated that Russia and China attempted to influence the 2022 U.S. midterms, but were unsuccessful in hacking the election infrastructure or disrupting voting.
The FBI has released a decryption tool that has helped over 500 ALPHV ransomware victims restore their systems, saving them from paying approximately $68 million in ransom demands.
The Agent Tesla malware uses obfuscated VBS files and steganography techniques to download a Base64-encoded DLL, which is then decoded and loaded to carry out malicious procedures.
The oversubscribed Series B funding round was led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company aims to use the funds to expand its product lines, enhance its services, and strengthen its sales and marketing efforts.
The attack exploits weaknesses in the SSH transport layer protocol and encryption modes used by a majority of current implementations, making it a significant concern for the cybersecurity community.