SHADE-Arena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in LLM Agents

As Large Language Models LLMs are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in complex and long horizon settings, it is critical to evaluate their ability to sabotage users by pursuing hidden objectives. We study the ability of frontier LLMs to evade monitoring and achieve harmful hidden goals...

One Patch to Rule Them All: Transforming Static Patches into Dynamic Attacks in the Physical World

Numerous methods have been proposed to generate physical adversarial patches PAPs against real-world machine learning systems. However, each existing PAP typically supports only a single, fixed attack goal, and switching to a different objective requires re-generating and re-deploying a new PAP...

A Hitchhiker'S Guide to Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies: a Survey on Anonymity, Confidentiality, and Auditability

Cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies CBDCs are reshaping the monetary landscape, offering transparency and efficiency while raising critical concerns about user privacy and regulatory compliance. This survey provides a comprehensive and technically grounded overview of...

WASP: Benchmarking Web Agent Security against Prompt Injection Attacks

Autonomous UI agents powered by AI have tremendous potential to boost human productivity by automating routine tasks such as filing taxes and paying bills. However, a major challenge in unlocking their full potential is security, which is exacerbated by the agent's ability to take action on their...

Centralized Trust in Decentralized Systems: Unveiling Hidden Contradictions in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Blockchain technology promises to democratize finance and promote social equity through decentralization, but questions remain about whether current implementations advance or hinder these goals. Through a mixed-methods study combining semi-structured interviews with 13 diverse blockchain...

CISA and Partners Release Advisory on Ghost (Cring) Ransomware

Today, CISA—in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC—released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory, StopRansomware: Ghost Cring Ransomware. This advisory provides network defenders with indicators of compromise IOCs,...

CISA Releases the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report

Today, CISA released the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report to highlight how adoption of Cybersecurity Performance Goals CPGs benefits our nation’s critical infrastructure sectors. Originally released in October 2022, CISA’s CPGs are voluntary practices that critical infrastructure...

Augmenting Training Datasets Using Generative AI

Custom generative AI solutions have the potential to transform industries, equipping businesses to reach their goals with exceptional…...

Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Enhancing Cybersecurity Culture

Building a resilient cybersecurity culture is crucial in today's digital landscape. The recent Rapid7 Take Command Summit session titled "Commander in Chief: Enhancing Cybersecurity Culture" offered valuable insights into fostering a strong security mindset within organizations. Here are three ke...

Our Takeaways From 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP): Insights and Market Evolution

Are your cloud-native applications and multi-cloud infrastructure adequately protected against evolving threats? How confident are you in your current security measures for cloud workloads and containerized environments? The recent Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection...

How Healthcare Providers Should Think About Balancing Innovation Efforts with Cybersecurity Goals

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New Webinar: 5 Steps to vCISO Success for MSPs and MSSPs

2024 will be the year of the vCISO. An incredible 45% of MSPs and MSSPs are planning to start offering vCISO services in 2024. As an MSP/MSSP providing vCISO services, you own the organization's cybersecurity infrastructure and strategy. But you also need to position yourself as a reliable...

CSAM Strengthens Attack Surface Coverage and Risk Assessment With Third-Party Connectors

Organizations using Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management CSAM can now import asset data from any external system into the Enterprise TruRisk Platform. With third-party connectors, you will identify any existing coverage gaps and add business context to your unified inventory, helping you...

Playbook: Your First 100 Days as a vCISO - 5 Steps to Success

In an increasingly digital world, no organization is spared from cyber threats. Yet, not every organization has the luxury of hiring a full-time, in-house CISO. This gap in cybersecurity leadership is where you, as a vCISO, come in. You are the person who will establish, develop, and solidify the...

Chinese Hackers Launch Covert Espionage Attacks on 24 Cambodian Organizations

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. "This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign," Palo Alto Networks Unit ...

3 reasons why your endpoint security is not enough

Despite widespread deployment of endpoint protection solutions, cyberattacks continue to make headlines, affecting organizations of all sizes and sectors. Recent statistics reveal that 70% of companies were impacted by ransomware last year State of Malware Report 2023, Malwarebytes, and 83%...

CISA Releases its Open Source Software Security Roadmap

Today, CISA released an Open Source Software Security Roadmap to lay out—in alignment with the National Cybersecurity Strategy and the CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan—how we will partner with federal agencies, open source software OSS consumers, and the OSS community, to secure OSS...

SRE vs DevOps: Differences & Similarities

SRE vs DevOps: which approach should you use? Explore shared goals and distinctions between their functions and responsibilities...

CISA releases advice on how to safeguard K–12 organizations

To help K-12 schools and school districts in their struggle against cybercrime the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released the report, Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K-12 organizations from Cybersecurity Threats. A cybersecurity incident can significantly...

Database Malware Strikes Hundreds of Vulnerable WordPress Sites

By Deeba Ahmed The database injection against WordPress websites features two different malware embedded together to achieve two entirely different goals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Database Malware Strikes Hundreds of Vulnerable WordPress Sites...