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AI-Powered Social Engineering: Ancillary Tools and Techniques 2025-02-14 at 13:24 By Social engineering is advancing fast, at the speed of generative AI. This is offering bad actors multiple new tools and techniques for researching, scoping, and exploiting organizations. In a recent communication, the FBI pointed out: ‘As technology continues to evolve, so do cybercriminals’ tactics.’

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Microsoft: Russian-Linked Hackers Using ‘Device Code Phishing’ to Hijack Accounts 2025-02-14 at 13:24 By Microsoft is calling attention to an emerging threat cluster it calls Storm-2372 that has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks aimed at a variety of sectors since August 2024. The attacks have targeted government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), information

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RansomHub Becomes 2024’s Top Ransomware Group, Hitting 600+ Organizations Globally 2025-02-14 at 13:24 By The threat actors behind the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have been observed leveraging now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Active Directory and the Netlogon protocol to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to a victim network’s domain controller as part of their

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Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs 2025-02-14 at 12:51 By Dan Robinson Union estimates up to 1,600 job on the line Vodafone and Three have detailed the exec line-up taking the reins of post-merger UK biz, yet there is no word on when the deal will close, what name it will take,

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Cyber Conspiracy Modernization Act proposed, cyber expert weighs in 2025-02-14 at 12:20 By A proposed bipartisan bill aims to increase punishment for cybercrimes.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn’t apply its strict app tracking rules to itself 2025-02-14 at 11:30 By Jude Karabus Germany’s Federal Cartel Office voices concerns iPhone maker may be breaking competition law Apple is feeling the heat over its acclaimed iPhone privacy policy after a German regulator’s review of iOS tracking consent alleged that the

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HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive 2025-02-14 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks HPE has fired back at the US Department of Justice’s objection to its takeover of Juniper Networks, with

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Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal 2025-02-14 at 07:30 By Simon Sharwood New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major strides.… This article

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PostgreSQL Vulnerability Exploited Alongside BeyondTrust Zero-Day in Targeted Attacks 2025-02-14 at 07:22 By Threat actors who were behind the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products in December 2024 likely also exploited a previously unknown SQL injection flaw in PostgreSQL, according to findings from Rapid7. The

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Shadow AI: The silent threat to enterprise data security 2025-02-14 at 07:03 By Just as IT departments have started to get a handle on shadow IT by setting policies for oversight and permissions on the use of applications, a new challenge has emerged — shadow AI. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security

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Lawyers face judge’s wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit 2025-02-14 at 06:16 By Thomas Claburn Talk about court red-handed Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents that cite non-existent

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