Learning the APT Kill Chain: Temporal Reasoning over Provenance Data for Attack Stage Estimation

Advanced Persistent Threats APTs evolve through multiple stages, each exhibiting distinct temporal and structural behaviors. Accurate stage estimation is critical for enabling adaptive cyber defense. This paper presents StageFinder, a temporal graph learning framework for multi-stage attack...

From One Attack Domain to Another: Contrastive Transfer Learning with Siamese Networks for APT Detection

Advanced Persistent Threats APT pose a major cybersecurity challenge due to their stealth, persistence, and adaptability. Traditional machine learning detectors struggle with class imbalance, high dimensional features, and scarce real world traces. They often lack transferability-performing well ...

From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code

Posted by the Big Sleep team Introduction In our previous post, Project Naptime: Evaluating Offensive Security Capabilities of Large Language Models, we introduced our framework for large-language-model-assisted vulnerability research and demonstrated its potential by improving the state-of-the-a...

General Electric Probes Security Breach as Hackers Sell DARPA-Related Access

By Waqas According to the threat actor, the data includes "a lot of DARPA-related military information." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: General Electric Probes Security Breach as Hackers Sell DARPA-Related Access...

White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge

At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge which is being abbreviated "AIxCC" will have a number of different phases. Interested would-be competitors can now submit their proposals to the Small Business Innovation Research...

AI-Piloted Fighter Jets

News from Georgetowns Center for Security and Emerging Technology: China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights. According to the Global Times report, the system had shot down...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Sensitive Information Leaking Through DARPA Website. [█████████]

Summary: While performing recon work on websites owned by DoD i came up with DARPA website which is leaking sensitive information. Description: The above website is leaking information such as- first name and last name, email address, phone number, house address and organization name of attendees...

Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware...

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System

This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an...

DARPA's Hail Mary Plan to Restart a Hacked US Electric Grid

On tiny Plum Island, DARPA stages a real-life blackout to put its grid recovery tools to the test...

A week in security (September 10 – 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we assessed the security of a portable router, identified ways to waste a scammer's time, named the many faces of omnichannel fraud, questioned the security of 2FAs, profiled a massive tech support scam operation, and exposed a new HMRC phishing campaign. Other...

DARPA Wants Research into Resilient Anonymous Communications

DARPA is funding research into resilient anonymous communications systems...

DARPA Funding in AI-Assisted Cybersecurity

DARPA is launching a program aimed at vulnerability discovery via human-assisted AI. The new DARPA program is called CHESS Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security, and they're holding a proposers day in a week and a half. This is the kind of thing that can dramatically change the...

The Time Has Arrived to Embrace Hackers

BOSTON—More than ever, hackers are getting a welcoming embrace from law enforcement, governments and business. Bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure programs are becoming the norm across industry, and hackers are no longer universally viewed as a pariah. Simultaneously, however, groups such a...

FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Possible login1 argument injection in telnetd8 Category: core Module: telnetd Announced: 2016-12-06...

You believe that there is no vulnerability in the code? Americans are Research-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Internet of everything era, in addition to People's lives provides a convenient, also brought many security risks, more and more devices more vulnerable to hacking attacks. There is no possibility of the birth of a cannot is the invasion code? DARPA-the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc...

Bug Hunting Cyber Bots Set to Square Off at DEF CON

LAS VEGAS — A government project in the works since 2013 is set to conclude Thursday at DEF CON when DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge culminates with a competition it’s calling the CGC Final Event. The challenge will mirror Capture the Flag competitions usually held at the hacking conference. CTF...

DARPA Challenges Hackers to Create Automated Hacking System — WIN $2 Million

Why we can’t detect all security loopholes and patch them before hackers exploit them? Because... we know that humans are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs, which is why vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, POODLE and GHOST remained undetected for decades and rendered almost half of the...

U.S. developing Technology to Identify and Track Hackers Worldwide

Without adequate analysis and algorithms, mass surveillance is not the answer to fighting terrorism and tracking suspects. That's what President Obama had learned last year when he signed the USA Freedom Act, which ends the bulk collection of domestic phone data by US Intelligence Agencies. There...

​DARPA Wants To Build Ultra Secure Messaging App for US Military

Just last month, DARPA launched a project dubbed "Improv," inviting hackers to transform simple household appliances into deadly weapons. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is finding someone in the private sector to develop a hacker-proof "secure messaging and transaction platfor...