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NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.The INC Ransom group this week claimed responsibility for the assault on 'NHS Scotland', saying it stole 3TB worth of data while leaking a small number of sensitive files.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2023-24955 – a code injection vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to execute code remotely on a vulnerable...
In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) found that 98% of them were willing to...
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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
According to Bar Lanyado, security researcher at Lasso Security, one of the businesses fooled by AI into incorporating the package is Alibaba, which at the time of writing still includes a pip command to download the Python package huggingface-cli in its GraphTranslator installation instructions. Lanyado did so to explore whether these kinds of hallucinated software packages - package names invented by generative AI models, presumably during project development - persist over time and to test whether invented package names could be co-opted and used to distribute malicious code by writing actual packages that use the names of code dreamed up by AIs.
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CPA firms taking advantage of compliance software to connect to a company's operations means an audit doesn't need to take such a large chunk of time, and businesses can keep their momentum. These compliance tools aggregate and store information, complete daily security testing, monitor results, and highlight potential issues, simplifying the data-gathering process for auditors and sparing companies time validating their operations.
AI has already become a part of business as usual, as enterprises leverage and integrate new features and tools into their day-to-day workflows, multiplying the volume of transactions and data generated. Despite the mounting security risk and increasing number of data protection incidents, enterprises are adopting AI tools in large numbers.
In this Help Net Security video, Shai Gabay, CEO of Trustmi, discusses why payments are a source of cyber worry for CISOs. CISOs are worried about Business Email Compromise, cyber attackers' use of AI, and securing the supply chain.
Threat actors automate attacks with AI. The use of AI to accelerate these attacks is gaining significant attention among major cybercriminal forums with growing interest in weaponizing this technology. AI systems can now replicate a voice using a sample, and video-call deepfakes are aiding threat actors.