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Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks, The least Acknowledged Flaw in AI Today
Written by Sean KalinichWait, another danger of AI article? Yes, another one. Since far too many people and companies are ok with ignoring the dangers simply for the…Written on Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:02 in News Read 307 times Read more...
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Leaked LockBit and Babuk Ransomware repurposed by Buhti in new Payloads
Written by Sean KalinichThe leak of tools used by threat groups, and spying agencies are events of inestimable importance in both the threat group and security worlds. To…Written on Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:52 in News Read 573 times Read more...
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The Microsoft Activision Blizzard Deal, Let’s Talk about the Elephant in the Room
Written by Sean KalinichMicrosoft’s $69 Billion wish list includes the acquisition of Activision Blizzard and all the goodies that it controls. This deal has been called the largest…Written on Thursday, 25 May 2023 09:26 in Game Thoughts Read 507 times Read more...
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Geoffrey Hinton, one of the Godfathers of AI, Says AI is an Imminent Existential Threat
Written by Sean KalinichGeoffrey Hinton, a former engineering fellow at Google and a vice president focusing on AI has made comments after his retirement from Google earlier this…Written on Wednesday, 24 May 2023 14:09 in Editorials Read 214 times Read more...
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More Malware Discovered in Google Play Store this Time in a Popular Screen Recording App
Written by Sean KalinichThe Google Play Store is and has always been something of a playground for mobile malware groups. Over the past few years hundreds of malicious…Written on Wednesday, 24 May 2023 12:13 in News Read 201 times Read more...
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Microsoft Announces AI Run Moderation System to Prevent “harmful” Content
Written by Sean KalinichWith some of the news around AI I feel like I should just create a “what could go wrong” series of articles. After all, as…Written on Wednesday, 24 May 2023 10:25 in News Read 371 times Read more...
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China Targets US Based Micron with a Sales Ban Citing National Security Concerns
Written by Sean KalinichIn what seems to be a tit-for-tat move, Chin has announced a ban on products from US chip maker, Micro. The reasons for this are…Written on Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:28 in News Read 253 times Read more...
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Ransomware Group BlackCat Appears to be Developing a New Attack Using Signed Kernel Drivers
Written by Sean KalinichIn the never-ending saga of Ransomware, the threat groups that deploy or leverage this tool for financial gain are always looking for a new method…Written on Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:59 in News Read 217 times Read more...
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As System Shock Remake is Underway New Look at the System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition Pips up
Written by Sean KalinichLong, long ago in a development studio far away there was a concept for a game where the protagonist was something more than just another…Written on Monday, 22 May 2023 14:12 in Game Thoughts Read 281 times Read more...
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Displaying items by tag: Malware
New Synolocker Ransomware Targets unpatched Synology NAS devices running older versions of DSM
One of the biggest issues in security is not the number of bad guys out there or the number of zero day exploits that exist in the wild. Sadly it is that far too many companies and people do not update their devices and software. Now I know that it is a pain to run updates on every device you own, but in most cases these updates are important. This is the case we find with the recent brouhaha over a version of cryptolocker (SynoLocker) that appears to target Synology NAS devices with an older (and unpatched) version of Disk Station Manager (DSM).
Welcome to Black Hat and DEF CON 2014
We are on the ground in Las Vegas, NV to cover Black Hat and DEF CON 2014. We will be bringing you coverage of the latest in hacks, exploits and the tools that are supposed to protect you from the “bad guys”. We also brought along some fun toys that are perfect to travel security. Granted nothing we brought it going to keep you 100% safe, but in the real world every little bit helps.
Unpatched AVG SafeSearch Leaves Users Open to Script Exploits
There is nothing like finding out that the application you bought to keep you safe on the internet can actually be used to insert malicious code. Well this is what AVG Secure Search toolbar users are finding out this morning as news of a vulnerability has hit the web. According to the report from CERT version 18.1.6 and older of AVG Secure Search and AVG SafeGuard install an Active X control that is just bad news.
New Botnet Targeting POS Terminals with Simple Passwords
Point of Sale Terminals are a new target for malicious individuals. At least this is a trend that many security researchers are seeing over the last few months. These systems can be a treasure trove of information for someone looking to make some quick money. On top of that most are designed with simple and generic logons to make use easier. This is a common flaw with many Windows based POS systems, yet the trend continues.
Macro Viruses Making a Comeback
In the mid-late 1990s the computer world was rocked by a new plague that spread very quickly through most Windows PCs that were running any form of Microsoft Office. This was the Macro virus and there were plenty of examples of these nasty little bits of Microsoft enabled code were written in a form of Visual Basic called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Think of VBA as a stripped down version of the more powerful programing languages.
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Reuters Ad Widget Redirects Readers
Our first bit of news this morning is a piece about the SEA (Syrian Electronic Army) hacking into an ad plug-in (widget) on the Reuters new page that allowed them to redirect readers to new landing pages. Now, while the hack is serious, at the time of this writing it does not appear there was any additional payload pushed out to end users. All that happened was readers looking for news stories were redirected to a new page that slammed western media.
Microsoft Fixes a Bug in Their Anti-Malware Applications That Lets Someone Turn them Off
Microsoft is joining the ranks of Symantec and McAfee in a very special group. This is a group of companies whose anti-malware products can be/have been attacked directly. According to a security update Microsoft says that a specifically crafted file can stop the service from working until manually removed.
Android Ransomware Dissected by University Student
Remember when we told you about the first ransomware for Android? No? Oh ok so let’s give you a quick background. Not that long ago some enterprising person came up with a way to use the locking portion of Find my iPhone to lock a number of iPhones in Australia. This started a number of rumors about the spread of this new threat to the iPhone including one that claimed iCloud had been hacked. In the end the number of locked phones was much smaller than reported and the users were able to get their phones back without paying out the relatively small ransom.
New Malware Pandemiya Comes with 25k Lines of New Code
Nothing makes a Friday fun like hearing about a brand new form of Malware. Well that is what we have for you on today. It seems that an RSA researcher was picking around the darker places on the Internet and stumbled upon a new bit of malware that, if real, could be a serious problem in the near future. RSA researcher Eli Marcus is calling the new malware Pandemiya and claims that it is 25,000 lines of previously unused code.
New CryptoLocker like Malware hits Android, Could be the start of a bad trend...
Imagine opening up a webpage when suddenly you see a notice saying all of your files have been locked. You have a limited amount of time to send a ransom or you will lose all of your data. This is what many people faced when the CryptoLocker Malware hit the PC world by surprise. Even now with many command and control servers down this threat still looms out there. Now imagine that instead of your PC it was your phone. The number of people that actually backup their phones in any real way is very small. A bit of malware like this could be disastrous to some.