Keeping GenAI technologies secure is a shared responsibility
Today, we are investing in the next generation of GenAI security with the 0Day Investigative Network (0Din) by Mozilla, a bug bounty program for large language models (LLMs) and other deep learning technologies. 0Din expands the scope to identify and fix GenAI security by delving beyond the application layer with a focus on emerging classes of vulnerabilities and weaknesses in these new generations of models.
Revealed: Russian legal foundation linked to Kremlin activities in Europe | Russia | The Guardian
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world. Internal documents from the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (Pravfond) indicate that the foundation finances propaganda websites targeted at Europeans, helped pay for the legal defence of the convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout and the assassin Vadim Krasikov, and has employed a number of former intelligence officers as the directors of its operations in European countries.
The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever | WIRED
The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time.
While implementing PHP, the team did not notice the Best-Fit feature of encoding conversion within the Windows operating system. This oversight allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass the previous protection of CVE-2012-1823 by specific character sequences. Arbitrary code can be executed on remote PHP servers through the argument injection attack.
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and any bug
Operation Crimson Palace: A Technical Deep Dive – Sophos News
Sophos Managed Detection and Response initiated a threat hunt across all customers after the detection of abuse of a vulnerable legitimate VMware executable (vmnat.exe) to perform dynamic link library (DLL) side-loading on one customer’s network. In a search for similar incidents in telemetry, MDR ultimately uncovered a complex, persistent cyberespionage campaign targeting a high-profile government organization in Southeast Asia. As described in the first part of this report, we identified at least three distinct clusters of intrusion activity present in the organization’s network from at least March 2023 through December 2023. The three security threat activity clusters—which we designated as Alpha (STAC1248), Bravo (STAC1870), and Charlie (STAC1305) – are assessed with high confidence to operate on behalf of Chinese state interests. In this continuation of our report, we will provide deeper technical analysis of the three activity clusters, including the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in the campaign, aligned to activity clusters where possible. We also provide additional technical details on prior compromises within the same organization that appear to be connected to the campaign.
Europe's cybersecurity chief says disruptive attacks have doubled in 2024, sees Russia behind many
The top European Union cybersecurity official says that disruptive digital attacks have doubled in the 27-member bloc in recent months and election-related services are also being targeted.
Cyberattack on telecom giant Frontier claimed by RansomHub
The Dallas-based company had said in a regulatory filing in April that a cybercrime group was responsible for a data breach. The gang added Frontier to its leak site on June 1.
Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall
If Microsoft intended the 2024 Build event to be overshadowed by controversy then it succeeded as calls intensify for the company to rethink its strategy around Recall. The Windows Recall feature, still in preview, takes a snapshot of a Copilot+ PC user's screen every couple of seconds and then sends it to disk, letting the user scroll the archive of snapshots when looking for something or use an AI system to recall screenshots by text.
Un prestataire externe de la Ville d'Yverdon-les-Bains victime d'une cyberattaque
Un prestataire externe du Service des énergies de la ville d'Yverdon-les-Bains (VD) a été victime fin mai d'une cyberattaque. Près de 12'300 particuliers et entreprises pourraient être concernés. Mais à ce stade, rien n'indique que des données aient été consultées ou copiées.
TikTok fails 'disinformation test' before EU vote, study shows
Wildly popular social network TikTok approved adverts containing political disinformation ahead of European polls, a report showed Tuesday (4 June), flouting its own guidelines and raising questions about its ability to detect election falsehoods.
Crooks threaten to leak 2.9B records of personal info
Billions of records detailing people's personal information may soon be dumped online after being allegedly obtained from a Florida firm that handles background checks and other requests for folks' private info. A criminal gang that goes by the handle USDoD put the database up for sale for $3.5 million on an underworld forum in April, and rather incredibly claimed the trove included 2.9 billion records on all US, Canadian, and British citizens. It's believed one or more miscreants using the handle SXUL was responsible for the alleged exfiltration, who passed it onto USDoD, which is acting as a broker.
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server:
Last week, a security researcher sent me 122GB of data scraped out of thousands of Telegram channels. It contained 1.7k files with 2B lines and 361M unique email addresses of which 151M had never been seen in HIBP before. Alongside those addresses were passwords and, in many cases, the website the data pertains to. I've loaded it into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) today because there's a huge amount of previously unseen email addresses and based on all the checks I've done, it's legitimate data. That's the high-level overview, now here are the details:
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small.
Detecting and Preventing Unauthorized User Access: Instructions
Snowflake recently observed and is investigating an increase in cyber threat activity targeting some of our customers’ accounts. We believe this is the result of ongoing industry-wide, identity-based attacks with the intent to obtain customer data. Research indicates that these types of attacks are performed with our customers’ user credentials that were exposed through unrelated cyber threat activity. To date, we do not believe this activity is caused by any vulnerability, misconfiguration, or malicious activity within the Snowflake product. Throughout the course of our ongoing investigation, we have promptly informed the limited number of customers who we believe may have been impacted. This post will assist with investigating any potential threat activity within Snowflake customer accounts and provide guidance in the “Recommended Actions” section below.
Snowflake at centre of world’s largest data breach
Cloud AI Data platform Snowflake are having a bad month. Due to teenager threat actors and cybersecurity of its own customers… and its own cybersecurity, too, in terms of optics. There are several large data breaches playing out in the media currently. For example, Ticketmaster owner Live Nation filed an 8-K with the SEC for potentially the largest data breach ever, claimed to be 560 million customers.
Cyber house of cards – Politicians’ personal details exposed online
We searched the dark web for politicians’ official email addresses, and roughly 40% of them appeared, along with other sensitive information. This is a scandal waiting to happen.
Ticketmaster confirms massive breach after stolen data for sale online
Live Nation has confirmed that Ticketmaster suffered a data breach after its data was stolen from a third-party cloud database provider, which is believed to be Snowflake.
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a new Microsoft Windows 11 feature which — in the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- takes “screenshots” of your PC constantly, and makes it into an…
NIST Getting Outside Help for National Vulnerability Database
NIST announced on Wednesday that it will be receiving outside help to get the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) back on track within the next few months. The organization informed the cybersecurity community in February that it should expect delays in the analysis of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifiers in the NVD, saying that it was working to establish a consortium to improve the program.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing things that are already being done by humans, perfectly competently. Replacing humans with AIs isn’t necessarily interesting. But when an AI takes over a human task, the task changes.
