Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:01:40 +0000
After leaving many questions unanswered, Microsoft explains in a new postmortem the series of slipups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A major FBI botnet takedown, new Sandworm malware, a cyberattack on two major scientific telescopes—and more.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Plus: Mozilla patches more than a dozen vulnerabilities in Firefox, and enterprise companies Ivanti, Cisco, and SAP roll out a slew of updates to get rid of some high-severity bugs.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:37:11 +0000
A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:30:00 +0000
The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:06:34 +0000
The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment.
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Credit to Author: Cathy Alter| Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000
A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000
The US Secret Service’s relationship with the Oath Keepers gets revealed, Tornado Cash cofounders get indicted, and a UK court says a teen is behind a Lapsus$ hacking spree.
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