It poses a national security threat, the AI startup said, such as by possibly enabling offensive cyber operations.
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The feature, currently limited to a small group of testers, will provide an easy-to-use feature that scans AI-generated code and offers up patching solutions.
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Oleksandr Didenko ran laptop farms and provided forged or stolen identities to North Korean operatives who gained remote employment at 40 U.S. businesses.
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Governments and businesses have a shared interest in seeing post-quantum encryption broadly adopted throughout society.
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A top FBI cyber official said Salt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber espionage group behind the widespread compromise of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in 2024, continues to pose a broad threat to both America’s private and public sectors. Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for cyber intelligence at the FBI, touted improved partnerships between the telecommunications industry and […]
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A department official speaking at CyberTalks said HHS is trying to help the sector on finding where those risks are.
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Alexandra Seymour also talked about cyber workforce goals, including emulating Israel’s Unit 8200.
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A “precision cyber strike” makes for a clean narrative. The available evidence in the wake of the operation suggests something harder to label – and harder to learn from.
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Matthew Akande was living in Mexico when he and at least three co-conspirators broke into the networks of tax preparation firms and filed more than 1,000 fraudulent tax returns seeking tax refunds.
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A former federal election official says the FBI's affidavit justifying last month's Fulton County raid misrepresented basic election facts, despite the agency's claims having already been investigated and debunked by Georgia officials.
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Google researchers said Chinese attackers have been exploiting a zero-day since mid-2024, and they’ve moved on to a more advanced version of Brickstorm malware called Grimbolt.
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The 47-year-old man, who was not identified, faces up to five years in prison for producing, obtaining and sharing computer programs used to conduct cyberattacks.
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The company says it will integrate Koi’s technology into its security offerings to improve visibility into AI-driven activity on workplace devices.
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Trillions in AI infrastructure face systemic failure unless security begins at the chip and ends with the grid.
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Palo Alto Network’s incident response firm said identity-based attacks are exploding as poor security controls stretch across a widening mosaic of integrated tools and systems.
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The research lab says forensic evidence suggests the phone-cracking technology was used against Boniface Mwangi after his July arrest.
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Proofpoint is snapping up the startup to solve the industry’s newest headache: knowing what your autonomous AI is actually doing.
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The vendor said the memory-corruption defect was exploited to target specific people, but it did not describe the objectives of the attack.
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The research underscores how AI tools have matured in their cyber offensive capabilities, even as it doesn’t reveal novel or paradigm shifting uses of the technology.
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One industry official told CyberScoop the town halls are probably not what CIRCIA needs right now.
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