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As AI tools become more widespread, impersonation and deception have become easier. Organizations are combating this issue with policies and technological solutions.
The publication, "Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations," is a key component of NIST's broader initiative to foster the creation of reliable AI. This effort aims to facilitate the implementation of NIST's AI Risk Management Framework and aims to assist AI developers and users in understanding potential attacks and strategies to counter them, acknowledging that there is no silver bullet. "The risks of AI are as significant as the potential benefits. The latest publication from NIST is a great start to explore and categorize attacks against AI systems. It defines a formal taxonomy and provides a good set of attack classes. It does miss a few areas, such as misuse of the tools to cause harm, abuse of inherited trust by people believing AI is an authority, and the ability to de-identify people and derive sensitive data through aggregated analysis," Matthew Rosenquist, CISO at Eclipz.io commented.
Think you're too small to experience a cyber attack? That's not the case. Cyber threat actors are increasingly setting their sights on small businesses.
Toronto Zoo, the largest zoo in Canada, says that a ransomware attack that hit its systems on early Friday had no impact on the animals, its website, or its day-to-day operations. "Currently, our animal wellbeing, care and support systems have not been impacted by this incident and we are continuing with normal Zoo operations including being open to guests," it said.
The official Netgear and Hyundai MEA Twitter/X accounts are the latest hijacked to push scams designed to infect potential victims with cryptocurrency wallet drainer malware. Hackers are increasingly targeting and compromising verified government and business X accounts with 'gold' and 'grey' checkmarks to add legitimacy to their malicious tweets pushing cryptocurrency scams, phishing sites, and sites dropping crypto drainers.
The Turkish state-backed cyber espionage group tracked as Sea Turtle has been carrying out multiple spying campaigns in the Netherlands, focusing on telcos, media, internet service providers, and Kurdish websites. Previously, Sea Turtle, also known as Teal Kurma and Cosmic Wolf, focused on the Middle Eastern region, as well as Sweden and the United States, using techniques like DNS hijacking and traffic redirection to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against government and non-government organizations, media, ISPs, and IT service providers.
The Authy desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux will be discontinued in August 2024, with the company recommending users switch to a mobile version of the two-factor authentication app. "We made this difficult decision to sunset the Twilio Authy desktop apps in order to streamline our focus and provide more value on existing product solutions for which we see increasing demand," explains Twilion in a new support document.
SonicWall says it has observed thousands of daily attempts to exploit an Apache OFBiz zero-day for nearly a fortnight. If you use the Apache Software Foundation framework, which includes business process automation apps and other enterprise-friendly functions, you should upgrade to OFBiz version 18.12.11 immediately to patch both this and a second, equally serious hole.
Leading U.S. mortgage lender loanDepot confirmed today that a cyber incident disclosed over the weekend was a ransomware attack that led to data encryption. LoanDepot is a major nonbank mortgage lender in the United States, with over $140 billion in serviced loans and roughly 6,000 employees.
The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a November 2023 cyberattack on the Capital Health hospital network and threatens to leak stolen data and negotiation chats by tomorrow. The LockBit ransomware gang has now claimed responsibility for the attack on Capital Health by listing the healthcare company on its data leak extortion portal yesterday.