Large Language Models (LLM) have made amazing progress in recent years. Most recently, they have demonstrated to answer natural language questions at a surprising performance level. In addition, by clever prompting, these models can change their behavior. In this way, these models blur the line between data and instruction. From "traditional" cybersecurity, we know that this is a problem. The importance of security boundaries between trusted and untrusted inputs for LLMs was underestimated. We show that Prompt Injection is a serious security threat that needs to be addressed as models are deployed to new use-cases and interface with more systems. [PDF DOC] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12173.pdf

Dive into the analysis and exploitation of a vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock for Local Privilege Escalation on Windows 11. More from X-Force Red experts.

Ecuador's government condemns the attack after journalists nationwide are targeted. [Related:](https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1638597842683195392)

Stealing data from Mac devices can unlock the door for both financially-motivated cybercrime and espionage. Learn how recent macOS malware does it.

Recently (On March 18 2023 at 23:44), a new malspam campaign has been observed in the wild ( HERE ), which caused a significant amount of concern. This campaign is designed to distribute malicious emails, which contain a harmful payload that can infect a user’s system, steal sensitive information, or launch other types of attacks.

ChatGPT for a long time on March 20th posted a giant orange warning on top of their interface that they’re unable to load chat history.

Ferrari Hacked, the renowned manufacturer of sports cars from Italy, announced that a ransomware attack targeted them. 

* Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that we judge were exploited in 2022. Although this count is lower than the record-breaking 81 zero-days exploited in 2021, it still represents almost triple the number from 2020. * Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage groups exploited more zero-days than other cyber espionage actors in 2022, which is consistent with previous years. * We identified four zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by financially motivated threat actors. 75% of these instances appear to be linked to ransomware operations. * Products from Microsoft, Google, and Apple made up the majority of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022, consistent with previous years. The most exploited product types were operating systems (OS) (19), followed by browsers (11), security, IT, and network management products (10), and mobile OS (6).

This blog post describes the details and methodology of our research targeting the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology.

The rise of publicly-accessible Al models like ChatGPT has produced some interesting attempts to create malware. How seriously should defenders take them?

On February 27, 2023, a “The Sandbox” employee was compromised, resulting in sending malspam which introduced them to “PureLand”. It leads to a RedLine Stealer and an unknown stealer for macOS. A…

A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case.

Cyble reflects on the identification of a forum administrator and two cybercriminals and how it impacts the wider cybercrime ecosystem.

Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel’s Markup screenshot tool. Dubbed “aCropalypse,” Simon Aarons identified and reported this vulnerability (CVE-2023-21036) to Google in early January, with the initial proof-of-concept exploit developed by David Buchanan: Screenshots cropped using the built-in “Markup” app on Google Pixel devices may be retroactively un-cropped and un-redacted under many circumstances.

Une récente enquête a montré les immenses capacités des trackers GPS et Bluetooth pour pister et retrouver des objets. Ils mesurent à peine quelques centimètres et sont d’une efficacité redoutable. Des trackers ont été récemment au cœur d’une enquête sur le leader de la vente de vêtement en ligne Zalando. Trois médias allemands ont glissé des appareils de ce type dans des habits renvoyés après une commande. Le but était de voir dans quels pays voyageaient ensuite les vêtements

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum's…

In late 2022 and early 2023, Project Zero reported eighteen 0-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems produced by Samsung Semiconductor. The four most severe of these eighteen vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24033 and three other vulnerabilities that have yet to be assigned CVE-IDs) allowed for Internet-to-baseband remote code execution. Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim's phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.

You may need to turn off Wi-Fi calling and VoLTE for a bit.

Huntress is tracking CVE-2023-23397, a 0-day that impacts Microsoft Outlook and requires no user interaction to expose user credential hashes.

A suspected Chinese actor used a zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS and custom malware for espionage.

Learn more about the BatLoader malware, how we detected the attack, and recommendations from our Threat Response Unit (TRU) to protect your business from…

For March 2023 Patch Tuesday Microsoft has fixed 2 vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880).

With victims refusing to pay, cybercriminal gangs are now releasing stolen photos of cancer patients and sensitive student records.

Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)Microsoft addresses 76 CVEs including two zero-days exploited in the wild, one of which was publicly disclosed.

The group is blackmailing Ring on its site: "There's always an option to let us leak your data," they posted.

Canada's domestic food production system may actually be one of the most glaring cracks in Canada's national defences. ... Attacking agricultural infrastructure has proven to be an effective part of the Russian playbook so far in its invasion of Ukraine. In June 2022, EU trade counsellor Maud Labat said Moscow has figured out how to wield food as a “geopolitical weapon.”

The high-profile botnet, focused on mining cryptocurrency, is back with new Linux versions.

An employee of cyberweapon manufacturer, NSO Group, tried to sell advanced malware to unauthorized parties for $50-Million, according to an Israeli indictment unsealed last week against the individual in question. About two years ago, Herzliya-based NSO Group developed a powerful cyberweapon called Pegasus, which operated as malware that exploited three previously unknown vulnerabilities in iPhones […]

New Golang-based malware we have dubbed GoBruteforcer targets web servers. Golang is becoming popular with malware programmers due to its versatility.