Category: security
AI tools are being increasingly abused to launch cyberattacks
A growing number of cyberattacks are being launched with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), new research has claimed. A report from Imperva noted between April and September 2024, its Threat Research team analyzed thousands of attacks, finding retail sites collectively experience more than 500,000…
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Several top E2EE cloud storage providers have serious security flaws
Some cloud storage providers offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE) are largely operating a broken ecosystem which could, in very realistic theory, allow threat actors to tamper with the files in a way that should not be possible, experts have claimed. In an in-depth analysis, recently published on the brokencloudstorage.info website, cybersecurity…
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Intel and AMD chips are under attack from a new generation of Spectre threats
It seems as Spectre still haunts Intel and AMD processors after cybersecurity researchers found new working speculative execution attacks. To improve their performance, modern processors try to “guess” what tasks to do next. Speculative execution attacks abuse this mechanism to trick the computer into leaking private information, like passwords or…
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Insurance giant Globe Life says it’s being extorted by hackers
American insurance giant Globe Life recently confirmed that cybercriminals tried to extort money in exchange for sensitive data they previously stole. In mid-June 2024, the company reported a cybersecurity incident in which unknown third parties accessed sensitive customer data through one of its web portals. It has now submitted a…
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That Google Meet invite could be a fake, hiding some dangerous malware
Hackers are targeting victims with fake broken Google Meet calls in an attempt to infect them with malware and thus grab their sensitive information, experts have warned. A report from cybersecurity researchers Sekoia claim the campaign is a new variant of the previously-observed ClickFix attack. ClickFix victims are shown a…
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Google says it has made big steps in improving memory safety
In a recently published blog post, Google explained how it makes its software less susceptible to flaws and vulnerabilities, and thus less interesting to cybercriminals. Its approach includes two key pillars: hardening super-popular, yet unsafe, programming languages, while slowly (but surely) transitioning towards up-and-coming, memory-safe languages. Earlier this week, Alex…
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