Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user’s personal information to an attacker.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:44:44 +0000
The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit hundreds of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives at risk.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000
“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: New details emerge in the National Public Data breach, Discord gets blocked in Russia and Turkey over alleged illegal activity on the platform, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000
It’s hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. Researchers say the group GoldenJackal did it twice in five years.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Kate Knibbs| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:00:19 +0000
The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:02:20 +0000
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0000
Perfctl malware is hard to detect, persists after reboots, and can perform a breadth of malicious activities.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more.
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