Deepfakes, AI resumes, and the growing threat of fake applicants

Recruiters expect the odd exaggerated resume, but many companies, including us here at Malwarebytes, are now dealing with something far more serious: job applicants who aren't real people at all. From fabricated identities to AI-generated resumes and outsourced impostor interviews, hiring pipelin...

The AI-Designed Bioweapon Arms Race

Interesting article about the arms race between AI systems that invent/design new biological pathogens, and AI systems that detect them before they're created: The team started with a basic test: use AI tools to design variants of the toxin ricin, then test them against the software that is used ...

New U.S. Visa Rule Requires Applicants to Set Social Media Account Privacy to Public

The United States Embassy in India has announced that applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas should make their social media accounts public. The new guideline seeks to help officials verify the identity and eligibility of applicants under U.S. law. The U.S. Embassy said every visa...

Operationalizing CaMeL: Strengthening LLM Defenses for Enterprise Deployment

CaMeL Capabilities for Machine Learning introduces a capability-based sandbox to mitigate prompt injection attacks in large language model LLM agents. While effective, CaMeL assumes a trusted user prompt, omits side-channel concerns, and incurs performance tradeoffs due to its dual-LLM design. Th...

CISA: Dams Sector Personnel Screening Guide

The Dams Sector Personnel Screening Guide 2025 provides information to assist Dams Sector owners and operators in developing and implementing personnel screening protocols appropriate for their facilities. An effective screening protocol for potential employees and contractor support can contribu...

Background check provider data breach affects 3 million people who may not have heard of the company

Employment screening company DISA Global Solutions has filed a data breach notification after a cyber incident on their network. DISA says a third party had access to its environment between February 9, 2024, and April 22, 2024. The attacker may have accessed over three million files containing...

CVE-2024-40655

In bindAndGetCallIdentification of CallScreeningServiceHelper.java, there is a possible way to maintain a while-in-use permission in the background due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is...

ASB-A-300904123

In bindAndGetCallIdentification of CallScreeningServiceHelper.java, there is a possible way to maintain a while-in-use permission in the background due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is...

New Blog Moderation Policy

There has been a lot of toxicity in the comments section of this blog. Recently, were having to delete more and more comments. Not just spam and off-topic comments, but also sniping and personal attacks. Its gotten so bad that I need to do something. My options are limited because Im just one...

Sentrifugo SQL注入漏洞

Sentrifugo is a human resource management system. The system includes functions for human resources management, performance appraisal, recruitment management and asset management. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in Sentrifugo version 3.2, which originates from a lack of validation of...

Xiaomi Router Command Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2025-06296)

Xiaomi Router is a series of wireless routers from the Chinese company Xiaomi. A command injection vulnerability exists in Xiaomi Router. The vulnerability is due to insufficient screening of responses returned from an external interface. An attacker could use this vulnerability to gain privilege...

Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-72226)

Microsoft Exchange Server is the United States Microsoft Microsoft company's set of e-mail service program. It provides e-mail access, storage, forwarding, voice mail, e-mail filtering and screening. A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server, which can be exploited by attackers...

Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-64866)

Microsoft Exchange Server is the United States Microsoft Microsoft company's set of e-mail service program. It provides e-mail access, storage, forwarding, voice mail, e-mail filtering and screening. A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server, which can be exploited by attackers...

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-64869)

Microsoft Exchange Server is the United States Microsoft Microsoft company's set of e-mail service program. It provides e-mail access, storage, forwarding, voice mail, e-mail filtering and screening. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server, which can be exploit...

Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font

The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily on simple pattern matching, and the trick is to copy a list of relevant keywords--or the published job description--into the resume in a...

thermal-screening.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3498112

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

The Hand-y Etiquette of Modern All-Remote Culture

In today’s fast-paced digital world, remote work has become the new normal. With the rise of video conferencing platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, we have adapted to an all-remote culture where communication is largely virtual. One aspect of this culture that has become increasingly importa...

PT-2023-17876 · Google · Android

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Android versions Android-11 through Android-13 Description: The issue is related to a permissions bypass in the onNullBinding method of CallScreeningServiceHelper.java, allowing audio recording without displaying a privacy indicator. This cou...

We dig into the Game Players Code

Gaming security is getting a lot of attention at the moment. Rightly so; it’s a huge target for scammers and malware authors. Malicious ads, fake games, survey scams, phishing attacks…whatever you can think of, it’s in use. Some target kids and steal their accounts, selling them on. Others go aft...

Streamline Customer Screening Today. Here’s How.

By Waqas When it comes to preventing financial crime such as anti-money laundering, organizations need to make use of a customer screening process that takes human errors into account - Let's dig deeper! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Streamline Customer Screening Today...