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Microsoft analyzes a threat group tracked as DEV-0196, the actor’s iOS malware “KingsPawn”, and their link to an Israel-based private sector offensive actor (PSOA) known as QuaDream, which reportedly sells a suite of exploits, malware, and infrastructure called REIGN, that’s designed to exfiltrate data from mobile devices.

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Tech bigwigs: Hit the brakes on AI rollouts

April 10, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, chatbots, Emerging Technology, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, Security

More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders, and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity.

In an open letter published by Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks to humanity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined other signatories in agreeing AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs.”

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MERCURY and DEV-1084: Destructive attack on hybrid environment

April 7, 2023 0 Comments cybersecurity, mercury, Microsoft, Microsoft security intelligence, Security

Credit to Author: Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft detected a unique operation where threat actors carried out destructive actions in both on-premises and cloud environments.

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DevOps threat matrix

April 6, 2023 0 Comments cybersecurity, Microsoft, Microsoft security intelligence, Security

Credit to Author: Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we discuss threats we face in our DevOps environment, introducing our new threat matrix for DevOps. Using this matrix, we show the different techniques an adversary might use to attack an organization from the initial access phase and forward.

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