AI likely to boost ransomware, warns government body

The British National Cyber Security Centre NCSC says it expects Artificial Intelligence AI to heighten the global ransomware threat. In a report, the NCSC makes the assessment that AI will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyberattacks over the next two years. We’re...

How AI hallucinations are making bug hunting harder

Bug bounty programs that pay people for finding bugs are a very useful tool for improving the security of software. But with the availability of artificial intelligence AI as seen in the popular large language models LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, and others it looks like there is a new problem on the...

AI and Lossy Bottlenecks

Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making. Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that do...

CISO: Top 10 Trends for 2024

I recently hosted and moderated a distinguished panel of Chief Information Security Officers CISOs - Nitin Raina, CISO at ThoughtWorks, Mike Wilkes, former CISO at Marvel and Yogesh Badwe, CSO at Druva. We discussed major trends for 2024 across an array of topics including the evolving threat...

This Year in Spring - 2023

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in...

3,500 Arrested in Global Operation HAECHI-IV Targeting Financial Criminals

A six-month-long international police operation codenamed HAECHI-IV has resulted in the arrests of nearly 3,500 individuals and seizures worth $300 million across 34 countries. The exercise, which took place from July through December 2023, took aim at various types of financial crimes such as...

CVE-2023-44991

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Jordy Meow Media File Renamer: Rename Files Manual, Auto & AI.This issue affects Media File Renamer: Rename Files Manual, Auto & AI: from n/a through 5.6.9...

The sound of you typing on your keyboard could reveal your password

As if password authentications coffin needed any more nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in. The technique, developed at Durham University, the University of Surrey, and Royal Holloway University of London, builds on previous work to produce a more accurate...

CVE-2023-49796

MindsDB connects artificial intelligence models to real time data. Versions prior to 23.11.4.1 contain a limited file write vulnerability in file.py Users should use MindsDB's staging branch or v23.11.4.1, which contain a fix for the issue...

CVE-2023-49796 MindsDB Arbitrary File Write vulnerability

MindsDB connects artificial intelligence models to real time data. Versions prior to 23.11.4.1 contain a limited file write vulnerability in file.py Users should use MindsDB's staging branch or v23.11.4.1, which contain a fix for the issue...

CVE-2023-49796

CVE-2023-49796 affects MindsDB prior to 23.11.4.1, where the put method in mindsdb/mindsdb/api/http/namespaces/file.py does not validate the user-supplied name, enabling arbitrary file writes via path injection. Public sources corroborate a limited file write vulnerability in file.py. Affected ve...

CVE-2023-49796 MindsDB Arbitrary File Write vulnerability

MindsDB connects artificial intelligence models to real time data. Versions prior to 23.11.4.1 contain a limited file write vulnerability in file.py Users should use MindsDB's staging branch or v23.11.4.1, which contain a fix for the issue...

Server side request forgery (ssrf)

MindsDB connects artificial intelligence models to real time data. Versions prior to 23.11.4.1 contain a server-side request forgery vulnerability in file.py. This can lead to limited information disclosure. Users should use MindsDB's staging branch or v23.11.4.1, which contain a fix for the issu...

Russia's AI-Powered Disinformation Operation Targeting Ukraine, U.S., and Germany

The Russia-linked influence operation called Doppelganger has targeted Ukrainian, U.S., and German audiences through a combination of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts. These campaigns are designed to amplify content designed to undermine Ukraine as well as propagate anti-LGBTQ+...

AI and Trust

I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way. At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers a...

Rapid7 Takes Next Step in AI Innovation with New AI-Powered Threat Detections

Digital transformation has created immense opportunity to generate new revenue streams, better engage with customers and drive operational efficiency. A decades-long transition to cloud as the de-facto delivery model of choice has delivered undeniable value to the business landscape. But any chan...

CISA and UK NCSC Unveil Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development

Today, in a landmark collaboration, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC are proud to announce the release of the Guidelines for Secure AI System Developmentlink is external. Co-sealed by 23 domestic and international...

DECE Software Geodi Security Vulnerability

DECE Software Geodi is DECE Software's semantic search, GIS and discovery platform based on artificial intelligence and natural language processing. A security vulnerability exists in DECE Software Geodi versions prior to 8.0.0.27396 that stems from the presence of a behavioral workflow execution...

Rapid7 Introduces AI-driven Cloud Anomaly Detection

It’s that time of year again! AWS Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual mega-conference will soon kick off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be a ton of new cloud security innovations unveiled throughout the week. From a Rapid7 perspective, we’re launching an exciting new capability - Cloud...

CISA Releases Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Adoption

Today, CISA released its Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence—in alignment with White House Executive Order 14110: Safe, Secure, And Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence—to outline a comprehensive set of actions CISA will take along five lines of effort: 1. Responsibly use AI...