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As part of their research and monitoring efforts, the Supply Chain Security team of the Threat Intelligence department of the Positive Technologies Expert Security Center (PT ESC) detected and prevented a malicious campaign in the Python Package Index (PyPI) package Read More …
A security flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface could be used to initiate a distributed denial-of-service attack on websites, according to a researcher. The discovery was made by Benjamin Flesch, a security researcher in Germany, who detailed the vulnerability Read More …
The Cyber Security Council of the UAE Government has announced that the nation’s cybersecurity systems have successfully countered malicious ransomware attacks targeting several strategic sectors, including government and private entities. The Council revealed that the country’s emergency cyber-response systems, in Read More …
When launching and persisting attacks at scale, threat actors can inadvertently leave behind traces of information. They often reuse, rotate and share portions of their infrastructure when automating their campaign’s setup before launching an attack. Defenders can leverage this behavior Read More …
This is a follow-up analysis to a previous blog about a zero day exploit where the FortiGuard Incident Response (FGIR) team examined how remote attackers exploited multiple vulnerabilities in an appliance to gain control of a customer’s system. At the Read More …
Today FortiGuard Labs is releasing this blog post about a case where an advanced adversary was observed exploiting three vulnerabilities affecting the Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA). At the time of our investigation, two out of the three identified vulnerabilities Read More …
2024 may go down as the year AI stopped being a technological novelty and became—more consequentially—a Fact of Life. Big names like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Intuit built AI into mainstream enterprise solutions; specialized AI apps and services sprung up for Read More …
The Treasury Department told lawmakers Monday that a state-sponsored actor in China hacked its systems, accessing several user workstations and certain unclassified documents. The treasury was informed on Dec. 8 by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that a threat Read More …
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by Read More …
With the rise of generative AI, new security vulnerabilities are emerging. One such vulnerability is prompt injection, a method that malicious actors can exploit to manipulate AI systems. Typically, the impact of prompt injection attacks is closely tied to the Read More …