From Deepfakes to Malware: AI's Expanding Role in Cyber Attacks

Large language models LLMs powering artificial intelligence AI tools today could be exploited to develop self-augmenting malware capable of bypassing YARA rules. "Generative AI can be used to evade string-based YARA rules by augmenting the source code of small malware variants, effectively loweri...

Social media influencers targeted by identity thieves

Social media influencers are attractive targets for identity thieves. With large followings and a literal influence on their followers, its no wonder they are targeted by scammers and spreaders of fake news. A subset of influencers are the so-called "finfluencers": influencers that provide their...

TikTok faces ban in US unless it parts ways with Chinese owner ByteDance

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance gives up its share of the immensely popular app. TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, short video clips. It...

Unmasking Doppelgänger: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign Revealed

Summary: Doppelgänger, a suspected Russia-aligned influence operation network targeting German audiences with propaganda and disinformation, potentially aiming to sway opinions ahead of elections. Doppelgänger employs coordinated social media activities and a dynamic infrastructure to maximize it...

Russian Hackers Target Ukraine with Disinformation and Credential-Harvesting Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to Russia-aligned threat actors by Slovak cybersecurity company ESET, which also identified a spear-phishing campai...

David Kahn

David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this field. He will be missed. EDITED TO ADD 2/4: Funeral website. EDITED TO ADD 2/10: New York Times obituary...

amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure

A side channel vulnerability was found in hw amd. Some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This issue may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled instruction pointer register, potentially leading to information disclosure...

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152's Cybercrime Network

Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a network of bogus websites and social media pages to other criminal actors, netting them millions of...

Star Blizzard increases sophistication and evasion in ongoing attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track and disrupt malicious activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard formerly SEABORGIUM, also known as COLDRIVER and Callisto Group. Star Blizzard has improved their detection evasion capabilities since 2022 while...

The Hundred-Year Battle for India’s Radio Airwaves

The Indian government has a monopoly on radio news, allowing it to dictate what hundreds of millions of people hear. With an election approaching, that gives prime minister Narendra Modi a huge advantage...

How Altcoins Influence The World of Crypto

By Owais Sultan Altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies, diversify the crypto landscape, offering investors options beyond Bitcoin and influencing market dynamics. Their… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Altcoins Influence The World of Crypto...

Authentication flaw

Affected devices do not properly validate the authentication when performing certain modifications in the web interface allowing an authenticated attacker to influence the user interface configured by an administrator...

CVE-2023-4154

A design flaw was found in Samba's DirSync control implementation, which exposes passwords and secrets in Active Directory to privileged users and Read-Only Domain Controllers RODCs. This flaw allows RODCs and users possessing the GETCHANGES right to access all attributes, including sensitive...

Defeating Little Brother requires a new outlook on privacy: Lock and Code S04E23

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… A worrying trend is cropping up amongst Americans, particularly within Generation Z—theyre spying on each other more. Whether reading someones DMs, rifling through a partners text messages, or even rummaging through the bags and belongings of someone else,...

Political Disinformation and AI

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each others elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US...

The vulnerability of the Apache InLong data integration platform, related to the recovery of unreliable data in memory, allows attackers to bypass the application’s logic and gain control over the files’ reading order.

The vulnerability of the Apache InLong data integration platform lies in the recovery of unreliable data in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to bypass the application’s logic and gain control over the files...

Meta Takes Down Thousands of Accounts Involved in Disinformation Ops from China and Russia

Meta has disclosed that it disrupted two of the largest known covert influence operations in the world from China and Russia, blocking thousands of accounts and pages across its platform. "It targeted more than 50 apps, including Facebook, Instagram, X formerly Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit,...

Double voting in GaugeController

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Voting with the same collateral multiple times by delegating and undelegating, a process that could manipulatively influenceincrease the weight of a particular lending market where the malicious actor is the major Liquidity provider. Proof of Concept The...

PT-2023-4310 · Microsoft · Exchange Server

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Exchange Server affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to errors in the representation of information by the user interface, allowing a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack. This can enable an...

5 Cloud Security Predictions for 2023

COVID's impact still resonates. Remote work, AI, and a turbulent economy have made the future unpredictable, including the future of cloud security. But we still have best practices for you! Let's examine 5 cloud security predictions to be aware of in 2023...