Unleashing the Dark Side: Unveiling Threats & Vulnerabilities in AI Models

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The rapid surge in LLMs (Large language models) across several industries and sectors has raised critical concerns about their safety, security, and potential for misuse. In the current threat landscape, threat actors can exploit the LLMs for several illicit purposes, …

Top 10 Best Practices for Cybersecurity Professionals to Securing Your Database

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In today’s digital landscape, databases are the fortresses where an organization’s most valuable data assets are stored and managed. However, these digital vaults are constantly under siege by cyber threats. As a cybersecurity professional, your responsibility is akin to that …

Researchers Uncover New technique to Detect Malicious Websites

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The internet domains serve as a launchpad for threat actors to launch several cyber attacks. By exploiting the internet domains as a launchpad platform, threat actors can perform the following activities on Malicious Websites:- Distribute malware Facilitate command and control …

Virtual Patching: what is it? Your Defense Against Exploits and Threats

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You might discover hundreds of open doors if you scan your website for security vulnerabilities. Our AppSec research across 1400 websites protected by AppTrana uncovered 33,000 critical, medium, and high vulnerabilities in Q2, 2023. What’s more alarming is that 31% of these vulnerabilities …

Over 2.6 Million DuoLingo Users’ Info Exposed in a Hacker’s Forum

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The popular language learning platform has come under scrutiny as a post on a hacker’s forum offers access to information from 2.6 million customer accounts for a mere $1,500.  Duolingo is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps …

Kroll Experiences Data Breach After Employee Is Hacked Via SIM Swap Attack

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A high-profile cyber attack targeted a prominent company, Kroll. This attack utilized a sophisticated technique known as “SIM swapping,” which allowed the threat actor to gain unauthorized access to sensitive personal information. On Saturday, August 19, 2023, Kroll was informed about …

Cisco FXOS SNMP Service Flaw Let Attacker Trigger DoS Condition

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A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in the Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Firepower 9300 Security Appliances, and UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on any affected device. Due …

Smoke Loader Malware Locates Infected System Wi-Fi Access Points

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Recent reports reveal that Smoke loader botnets are used by malicious actors to infiltrate compromised systems and deploy Wi-Fi scanning executables. This Wi-Fi scanning tool seems custom-written and is used for gathering information about a system’s geolocation through Google Geolocation …

Threat and Vulnerability Roundup for the week of August 20th to 26th

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Welcome to the Threat and Vulnerability Roundup, a weekly publication from Cyber Writes that provides the most recent news on cybersecurity. Use our wide coverage to stay up to date. Critical flaws, exploits, and recent techniques for attacking have all …

Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data

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Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. And there are …