Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns
Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of…
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Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks
Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No…
Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft
Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for…
Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations
Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google…
Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via Hidden URL Parameter
Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully…
Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forums in Major Cybercrime Crackdown
Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananOnline Fraud / Cybercrime An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such…
Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked
Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent…
SOC Analysts – Reimagining Their Role Using AI
The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are…
New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks
Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / IoT Security A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting…
Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to One-Click RCE Exploits
Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Vulnerability Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an…
Lazarus Group Uses React-Based Admin Panel to Control Global Cyber Attacks
Jan 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed leveraging a “web-based administrative platform”…
New SLAP & FLOP Attacks Expose Apple M-Series Chips to Speculative Execution Exploits
A team of security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum has demonstrated two new side-channel attacks targeting Apple silicon that could…