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Ransomware 2024 was the worst year ever for big game ransomware. February 12, 2025 Mark Stockley Ransomware is the most lucrative and successful method devised for monetizing illegal access to computers, and the recently released 2025 ThreatDown State of Malware report reveals that 2024 was the worst year ever for big game ransomware. In 2024,…
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President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring federal agencies to work with the Elon Musk-led DOGE to make “large-scale” workforce reductions.Why it matters: The order that’s titled “Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative gives DOGE even more powers, just as the Trump administration faces several lawsuits accusing it of violating…
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Learn how the DHS critical infrastructure framework helps all industries adopt AI security frameworks, addresses vulnerabilities and achieves compliance.
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Vice President JD Vance took the stage Tuesday during the Paris AI Summit — an event hosting a group of foreign leaders — to underscore the Trump administration’s pro-industry stance on artificial intelligence regulations and policy, while striving to include the U.S. labor force. Vance highlighted priorities for shaping the U.S. AI landscape, focusing on…
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arXiv:2502.05209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluations of large language model (LLM) risks and capabilities are increasingly being incorporated into AI risk management and governance frameworks. Currently, most risk evaluations are conducted by designing inputs that elicit harmful behaviors from the system. However, a fundamental limitation of this approach is that the harmfulness of the behaviors…
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More Australian states and territories have now banned the Chinese-developed DeepSeek products, applications, and web services on government devices, citing serious security vulnerabilities that could expose sensitive data. The decision follows a federal directive from the Australian Department of Home Affairs on Feb. 4, noting that DeepSeek “poses an unacceptable level of security risk” due…
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The R1 model from DeepSeek was identified as being more vulnerable to manipulation than models developed by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
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A vulnerability was found in Peggy Kuo More Link Modifier Plugin up to 1.0.3 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-23818. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is no exploit available.
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The latest model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street, can be manipulated to produce harmful content such as plans for a bioweapon attack and a campaign to promote self-harm among teens, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sam Rubin, senior vice president at Palo Alto Networks’ threat…
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School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. It was October 2022 when Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho made a false assurance about a massive ransomware attack on the country’s second-largest school district — and the leak of thousands of highly sensitive student mental health records…
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OpenAI has updated the “chain of thought” feature of its o3-mini AI model to make it easier for users to understand how it thinks. This comes in the wake of the release of DeepSeek-R1, a rival reasoning model that also shows the thought process behind its responses. Reasoning models are designed to break down their…
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Google DeepMind’s Chief Technology Officer, Koray Kavukcuoglu, has officially announced the full-scale launch of the Gemini 2.0 artificial The post Gemini 2.0 Unleashed: Pro, Flash-Lite, & More appeared first on Cybersecurity News.
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This campaign primarily targets finance, accounting, and sales professionals, aiming to steal sensitive data.
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Data: USAFacts, National Center for Education Statistics; Chart: Jacque Schrag/AxiosPresident Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education could prove more costly for red states than blue.Why it matters: Funding for public schools primarily falls to local and state governments, but federal funds work to fill the gaps. States that voted for Trump last…
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Financial institutions will continue to be the ultimate targets for criminals and threat actors, as a successful attack offers a significant payoff, according to Contrast Security. Contrast Security has surveyed 35 of the world’s leading financial institutions to better understand their cyber threat landscape and the extent to which they are — or are not…
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Attacks with the new Coyote trojan variant over the past month involved the deployment of an LNK file executing a PowerShell command facilitating next-stage PowerShell script retrieval for the eventual launching of the trojan, which not only obtained system details and an antivirus product list but also sought to bypass sandbox discovery, according to a…
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Aside from exploiting a pair of zero-day flaws in the VeraCore supply chain management software to facilitate systems and configuration files compromise and persistence, XE Group also moved to revive a webshell initially installed four years prior, according to a joint analysis by Intezer and Solis Security.
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Attacks with the new Coyote trojan variant over the past month involved the deployment of an LNK file executing a PowerShell command facilitating next-stage PowerShell script retrieval for the eventual launching of the trojan, which not only obtained system details and an antivirus product list but also sought to bypass sandbox discovery, according to a…
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Aside from exploiting a pair of zero-day flaws in the VeraCore supply chain management software to facilitate systems and configuration files compromise and persistence, XE Group also moved to revive a webshell initially installed four years prior, according to a joint analysis by Intezer and Solis Security.
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The growing sophistication and number of attacks are fueling enterprise’s growing embrace of MSSPs.