Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Is the US establishing their first APT group to address foreign cyber threats? Possibly. Private sector firms can now apply to be essentially cyber privateers. Sources: https://pastebin.com/VFihFaxH

A recent study of publicly accessible AI models found that patches generated by them fail about half the time, often introducing new vulnerabilities or leaving paths for exploitation open. Sources...

Water is a critical infrastructure, and lately multiple water plants across the US are under attack, starting in Minnesota. So far drinking water is safe, but it does bring into question the security of our basic...

Vatican app ClickToPray has had an unpatched IDOR sitting in its website that could allow for scraping the data of every single user. Sources: https://pastebin.com/SiYDAR40

AI email filters may be worse at detecting old tricks than traditional spam filters as old tactics are being used against old agents to allow in malicious or spam emails. Sources: https://pastebin.com/Pm7fqAjY

Randomness is not as random as it seems, and this can cause problems, especially when your money relies on it. Some crypto wallets generated predictable random passphrases that can be used to access accounts and steal...

The skill ceiling to become a real ransomware threat actor may have been lowered considerably, as JadePuffer performed an attack as an AI agent with no human intervention, being able to reason its way through problems...

Shopify has a dashboard that integrates all your web order activity, but this has allowed for a new type of phishing scheme much sneakier than emails. Fake receipts with fake support phone numbers have been popping up...

Klue allows you to get the upperhand on your competitors by using their public data and your internal information to create quick sales talking points, however it may have also leaked your private data via a legacy...

Fable 5 was based on Mythos, a model so dangerous it could not be released to the general public. But that release did not exactly go smoothly, was complains from customers that is too expensive and restrictive and...

AI support bots can help a lot in basic issues, but they can also cause a massive security incident if they are not well understood. Recently Meta AI's account recovery workflow was exploited by hackers to hijack many...

<p>Charter Communications, a major US telecom provider refused to pay a ransom, and so their data paid the price after being leaked on the dark web.</p> <p>Sources: https://pastebin.com/3PVNzDLX</p>

<p>GitHub is the most popular code repository site, but after an employee account was compromised their source code was stolen and is now up for sale on the dark web, with threats to leak it if there is not a buyer.</p>...

<p>Canvas is a massive education platform used globally in education, and they just suffered a hack that has left both students ans educators scrambling during one of their busiest weeks of the year, finals.</p>...

<p>Ransomware groups don't often target each other, but when they do it gets really interesting. Not only can defenders learn a lot about how these groups operate, but it can really boost the reputation of these groups...