Italian National Research Council Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating new discoveries across industries, from video production to medicine — and now, it’s expanding what we know about antiquity. On Tuesday, researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy announced that they have successfully used AI to decipher a papyrus scroll found in Herculaneum, a town near […]
Apr 26, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin prior to […]
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Researchers Keep Prompts Under Wraps Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • April 22, 2024 Researchers said their GPT-4 agent performed exceptionally well at crafting exploits after being fed CVEs. (Image: Shutterstock) Academics at a U.S. university found that if you feed a GPT-4 artificial […]
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Combination of Armis and Silk Will Create Leader in Asset Management, Remediation Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • April 17, 2024 Nadir Izrael, co-founder and chief technology officer, Armis (Image: Armis) Armis has purchased a security prioritization and remediation vendor led by a Goldman […]
Apr 16, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Endpoint Security The threat actor tracked as TA558 has been observed leveraging steganography as an obfuscation technique to deliver a wide range of malware such as Agent Tesla, FormBook, Remcos RAT, LokiBot, GuLoader, Snake Keylogger, and XWorm, among others. “The group made extensive use of steganography by sending VBSs, PowerShell […]
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , ID Fraud Experts Warn AI Tools Can Now Compromise Voice Password Systems Used by Many Banks Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • April 12, 2024 The voice authenticating a bank account could be real, or could be artificial intelligence. (Image: Shutterstock) At many financial […]
Artificial intelligence continues to be a big threat, but it’s also a huge promise in the world of cybersecurity. Today, one of the startups tackling both the opportunity and the challenge is announcing a major round of funding. Cyera has built an AI-based platform to help organizations understand the location and movement of all the […]
Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI’s SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware.
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development A Fake Software Library Made Up by a ChatBot Was Downloaded More Than 35,000 Times Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • April 5, 2024 Generative artificial intelligence can hallucinate its way into providing an opportunity for hackers. (Image: Shutterstock) Generative artificial intelligence is good […]