Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This week, NATO Defence Ministers released the first-ever strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) that encourages the use of AI in a responsible manner. Below are NATO principles of responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in defence : A. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Crooks created a new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and BEC. These posts introduced a new tool that incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In June 2024, booking.com told the BBC that phishing attacks targeting travelers had increased 900 percent, and that thieves taking advantage of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools were the primary driver of this trend. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This seems to be an identity theft first : Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Artificial intelligence is an immensely helpful tool for businesses and consumers alike, how to use artificial intelligence to secure sensitive Information. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an immensely helpful tool for businesses and consumers alike. Here are just a few ways AI is securing our data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 8, 2023

For the past few days, say two weeks, an Artificial Intelligence based writing tool ChatGPT is trending excellently on Google headlines. Check Point Researchers have discovered a hacking forum on a recent note where cyber crooks were found developing data stealing and encrypting tools using the chat bot.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 28, 2023

Security experts from HackerOne and beyond weigh in on malicious prompt engineering and other attacks that could strike through LLMs.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

DOGE personnel are also reported to be feeding Education Department data into artificial intelligence software, and they have also started working at the Department of Energy. Meanwhile, only partially redacted names of CIA employees were sent over an unclassified email account. This story is moving very fast.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 3, 2021

The post Why Are Meat Companies Being Targeted By Hackers: A Conversation With Kennedy appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity, Privacy, & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor. To listen to the discussion, please either utilize the embedded player below, or click the image underneath it.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 27, 2021

With the widespread application of artificial intelligence, utilizing neural networks becomes a forwarding trend of malware. We hope this work could provide a referenceable scenario for the defense on neural network-assisted attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US Government House this week launched an Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge competition for creating a new generation of AI systems. On Wednesday, the United States Government House introduced an Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge competition.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Hackers stole millions of dollars from Uganda Central Bank International Press Newsletter Cybercrime INTERPOL financial crime operation makes record 5,500 arrests, seizures worth over USD 400 million Hackers Stole $1.49

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher found that he could use that feature to plant “false memories” into that context window that could subvert the model.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The same applies to the technology of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it can assist humankind or wipe-it off on a permanent note. Later, the UN claimed to have enough evidence to prove the hack theory as true and alleged the Xi Jinping nation for showing harshness during the global health crisis.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Technologies that were figments of the imagination a dozen years ago, if they were conceived of at all, quickly become mainstream — think generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) or blockchain. Two emerging technologies are primarily shaping cybersecurity today: Artificial intelligence and blockchain.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There are a variety of companies that provide online proctoring services, but they’re uniformly mediocre : The remote proctoring industry offers a range of services, from basic video links that allow another human to observe students as they take exams to algorithmic tools that use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect cheating.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Microsoft has revealed that it's pursuing legal action against a "foreign-based threatactor group" for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety controls of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) services and produce offensive and harmful content.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This major incident became known to the Australia’s pubic just two weeks after it learned that Optus, the country’s second-largest mobile phone network provider, was also hacked, leading to the records of nearly 10 million of its customers’ data being held for ransom by a cybercriminal.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,ChatGPT) The decision stems from a March 2023 investigation and aligns with the EDPB’s guidance on AI-driven services and personal data processing. ” reads the press release published by Italy’s Garante.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 9, 2022

The post Top-Ranked New Jersey School District Cancels Final Exams Following Ransomware Cyberattack appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor. The ransomware attack on Tenafly’s school system is a reminder of a sad, ironic, reality.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2024

I have already instructed the Secretary-General of the Ministry to prepare a reform to establish a Directorate-General for cybersecurity and artificial intelligence,” said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking to journalists in the Senate. “We are working to respond firmly to cyberattacks originating from abroad.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Last week, Italys data protection watchdog blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek s chatbot service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users personal data. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,DeepSeek)

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2023

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 white font.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

” BBC : “Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn.” Here, misaligned incentives and hacking can have catastrophic consequences for society. The press coverage has been extensive, and surprising to me. The New York Times headline is “A.I. ” Other headlines are similar.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek has designed a new AI platform that quickly gained attention over the past week primarily due to its significant advancements in artificial intelligence and its impactful applications across various industries.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The US Department of Defense (DoD) shared the results of the Hack US bug bounty program that took place in July. On July 4, 2022, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and HackerOne started the Hack US, a one-week bug bounty challenge, which is considered part of DoD’s vulnerability disclosure program (VDP). In just seven days, Hack U.S.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 8, 2022

Thank you for not listening to your own cybersecurity experts when they told you to “ Stop hacking Russian websites – you are helping the Russians, not the Ukrainians.” You have probably done more than anyone other than myself to help Russia prepare for cyberwar. Thank you for putting your own governments in such a bind.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). Since 2017, China has held at least seven of these competitions—called Robot Hacking Games—many with multiple qualifying rounds. Certainly most of the Robot Hacking Games entrants are using them today. Some things we can infer.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 9, 2021

(Of course, if the FBI has such capabilities, it would likely use them sparingly and ascribe any successes to other techniques – just as the Allies did not act on every piece of data obtained by hacking Enigma so as not to alert the Nazis to Enigma’s compromise.). performed after obtaining a classic search warrant).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. and its allies for hacking activities in July. Wall Street Journal reported.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 8, 2023

At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack. The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California company that produces training for AI applications. Participants will be given laptops to use to attack the models.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2025

Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek ‘s chatbot service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The AI-powered chatbot, recently launched globally, has rapidly gained popularity reaching millions of users.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2022

In an intensely complex, highly dynamic operating environment, they must proactively mitigate myriad vulnerabilities and at the same time curtail the harm wrought by a relentless adversary: criminal hacking collectives. In short, attack surface management has become the main tent pole of cybersecurity.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? These are all examples of what we call AI hacking. Hacks are strategies that follow the rules of a system, but subvert its intent. These factors could make AI hacking of the democratic process fundamentally ungovernable.

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