Tag: intelligence
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2024 wurden 75 0-day-Schwachstellen (meist von Staatshackern) ausgenutzt
Google Thread Intelligence hat eine Auswertung von 0-day-Schwachstellen, für die es bei Ausnutzung noch keinen Patch gab, für das Jahr 2024 vorgelegt. In diesem Jahr gab es 75 0-Day-Schwachstellen, die in freier Wildbahn ausgenutzt wurden. Das ist zwar ein Rückgang … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/05/02/2024-wurden-75-0-day-schwachstellen-meist-von-staatshackern-ausgenutzt/
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The Rise of AI-Driven Cyberattacks: Accelerated Threats Demand Predictive and Real-Time Defenses
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, but it’s also empowering cybercriminals to launch sophisticated, high-speed cyberattacks. AI-driven attacks, particularly those orchestrated by autonomous AI agents, operate at an accelerated pace, compressing the window for detection and protection. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/the-rise-of-ai-driven-cyberattacks-accelerated-threats-demand-predictive-and-real-time-defenses/
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RSA Conference 2025: Top Announcements and Key Takeaways from the Cybersecurity World’s Biggest Stage
“‹The RSA Conference 2025, held in San Francisco from April 28 to May 1, spotlighted the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence, identity security, and collaborative defense strategies. This year’s theme (Many Voices. One Community) emphasized collaboration across diverse perspectives to tackle cybersecurity challenges. The focus was on unifying IT,…
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British intelligence facing ‘oversight crisis’ from government interference
The U.K. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, which has statutory powers to hold agencies to account, says the government has “comprehensively dismantled” safeguards around its independence. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/british-intelligence-oversight-crisis-parliament-committee
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Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an “influence-as-a-service” operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X.The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a First…
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The 14 most valuable cybersecurity certifications
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, best-practice, blockchain, blueteam, china, cisa, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, conference, control, country, credentials, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, governance, government, guide, hacker, hacking, incident response, intelligence, Internet, jobs, kali, law, linux, malware, metric, microsoft, monitoring, network, penetration-testing, privacy, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-analysis, risk-management, skills, threat, training, vulnerability, windowsIndustry recognition Who’s to say one certification is more respected than another? Such criteria can be very subjective, so we turned to the most direct and unbiased source to cut through the ambiguity: job listings. In addition to education, skills, and qualifications, employers often specify certs they seek in their ideal candidate. These mentions carry…
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Salt Security Launches the First MCP Server to Revolutionise API Security in the Age of AI
API security pros Salt Security have announced the launch of the Salt Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server at RSAC 2025, giving enterprise teams a novel access point of interaction with their API infrastructure, leveraging natural language and artificial intelligence (AI). Built on the open MCP standard, Salt’s MCP Server enables AI agents to discover, understand, and analyse…
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QA Securely Yours: An Agony Aunt’s Guide to Surviving Cyber
What happens when two titans of cybersecurity (Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Secureworks, a Sophos company, and Amelia Hewitt, Founder of CybAid and Managing Director at Hewitt Partnerships) join forces to write a book? Securely Yours: An Agony Aunt’s Guide to Surviving Cyber! Securely Yours is a practical Agony Aunt-style guide…
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Salt Security Embraces MCP to Improve Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
Salt Security this week at the 2025 RSA Conference made available an early preview of an ability to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that are emerging as a de facto standard for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) models and agents. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/salt-security-embraces-mcp-to-improve-cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai/
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Russian APT28 hackers have redoubled efforts during Ukraine war, says French security agency
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cisco, credentials, crowdstrike, cyber, detection, exploit, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, mail, malicious, military, monitoring, network, phishing, russia, service, theft, ukraine, vpn, vulnerabilityTargeting and Compromise of French Entities Using the APT28 Intrusion Set, the group now aggressively targets the networks of government organizations and companies connected to Ukraine’s allies, including France.Since 2021, the group has targeted specific industrial sectors including aerospace, financial services, think tanks and research, local government, and government ministries.Nothing APT28 does stands out as…
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SC Award Winners 2025 CrowdStrike Falcon Best Threat Intelligence Technology
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/sc-award-winners-2025-crowdstrike-falcon-best-threat-intelligence-technology
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Unlocking Data and AI to Digitally Transform Manufacturing
Experts From Stibo Systems, Sitation on Tapping Into MDM and Predictive Analytics. Manufacturers want to digitally transform to tap into the latest artificial intelligence tools, but they’re saddled with decades-old equipment that was not designed to easily share data with other systems. But there’s hope, said James Van Pelt, manufacturing practice lead at Stibo Systems.…
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Researchers Demonstrate How MCP Prompt Injection Can Be Used for Both Attack and Defense
As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, new research has found how techniques that render the Model Context Protocol (MCP) susceptible to prompt injection attacks could be used to develop security tooling or identify malicious tools, according to a new report from Tenable.MCP, launched by Anthropic in November…
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News alert: At RSAC 2025, SecAI unveils platform that fuses agentic AI, contextual threat intelligence
San Francisco, Calif., Apr 29, 2025, CyberNewswire, SecAI, an AI-enriched threat intelligence company, made its official debut today at RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco, marking the company’s first public appearance on the global cybersecurity stage. At the… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/news-alert-at-rsac-2025-secai-unveils-platform-that-fuses-agentic-ai-contextual-threat-intelligence/
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WhatsApp Unveils New AI Features While Ensuring Full Message Secrecy
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform, has announced a major expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, promising to enhance user experience while reinforcing its longstanding commitment to privacy and message secrecy. Meta, WhatsApp’s parent company, has integrated its generative AI assistant, Meta, directly into the app, allowing users to ask questions, generate images, and…
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CNAPP-Kaufratgeber
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75 zero-days seen in 2024 as nations, spyware vendors continue exploitation
Google’s Threat Intelligence team published its annual zero-day report on Tuesday, finding that 75 vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in the prior year. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/google-zero-day-report-2024
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Cryptocurrency Found Lacking at RSAC Cryptographers’ Panel
Hot Topics Also Include Quantum Computing, Blockchains, Artificial Intelligence. Cryptocurrencies have dramatically failed to live up to their promise, to the extent that the world would be better without them, said cryptographer Adi Shamir at this year’s RSAC Conference, during an expert panel that touched on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, blockchains and more. First seen…
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France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks on French orgs
Today, the French foreign ministry blamed the APT28 hacking group linked to Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU) for targeting or breaching a dozen French entities over the last four years. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/france-ties-russian-apt28-hackers-to-12-cyberattacks-on-french-orgs/
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WhatsApp Launches Private Processing to Enable AI Features While Protecting Message Privacy
Popular messaging app WhatsApp on Tuesday unveiled a new technology called Private Processing to enable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in a privacy-preserving manner.”Private Processing will allow users to leverage powerful optional AI features like summarizing unread messages or editing help while preserving WhatsApp’s core privacy promise,” the Meta-owned service said in a First seen on…
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New Reports Uncover Jailbreaks, Unsafe Code, and Data Theft Risks in Leading AI Systems
Various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services have been found vulnerable to two types of jailbreak attacks that make it possible to produce illicit or dangerous content.The first of the two techniques, codenamed Inception, instructs an AI tool to imagine a fictitious scenario, which can then be adapted into a second scenario within the first one…
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France blames Russian military intelligence for years of cyberattacks on local entities
In a rare public attribution, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday it “condemns in the strongest possible terms” the actions of the GRU-linked threat actor known as APT28 for attacks against local entities. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/france-blames-russian-military-intelligence-for-hacks-against-local-orgs
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Google Reports 75 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild
In a comprehensive report released by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), 75 zero-day vulnerabilities were identified as actively exploited in the wild throughout 2024, marking a slight decline from 98 in 2023 but an increase from 63 in 2022. These vulnerabilities, defined as flaws exploited before a patch becomes publicly available, underscore a persistent…
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ISMG Editors: Day 1 Highlights From RSAC Conference 2025
Panel Shares Latest Buzz on Agentic AI, Deepfakes and Rise of Machine Identities. ISMG editors share highlights from Day 1 of the RSAC Conference 2025 in San Francisco, including the state of the economy, trends around M&A, artificial intelligence and agentic AI, deepfakes, data security posture management, enterprise and consumer browsers, and machine identities. First…
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France says Russian hackers behind attack on Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign
Foreign ministry says Russian military intelligence has attacked a dozen French entities since 2021 including a TV stationFrance has accused Russian military intelligence of carrying out a massive <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/emmanuel-macron-targeted-by-hackers-on-eve-of-french-election”>cyber-attack on Emmanuel Macron’s first presidential campaign in 2017 as well as several other recent major hacks, including on a TV station and an organisation involved…
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AI’s Invisible Data Risks and AI-Driven Insider Threats
Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on Data Security Risks From Copilot, ChatGPT, Other AI Bots. Artificial intelligence tools such Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and Cortex AI offer enterprises incredible gains in workplace productivity and automation, but they also pose new risks to data security to the business, said Yotam Segev, co-founder and CEO of Cyera. First seen…
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Stromausfall auf der iberischen Halbinsel in Spanien Cyberangriff?
Nach dem großflächigen Stromausfall auf der iberischen Halbinsel am 28. April untersucht der spanische Geheimdienst laut ‘El PaÃs”, ob der Stromausfall Folge eines Cyberangriffs ist. Adam Marrè, Chief Information Security Officer bei Arctic Wolf und ehemaliger FBI Special Agent, schätzt die Lage wie folgt ein: ‘Sollten die Stromausfälle in Spanien und Portugal tatsächlich das Ergebnis eines…
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97 zero-days exploited in 2024, over 50% in spyware attacks
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) says attackers exploited 75 zero-day vulnerabilities in the wild last year, over 50% of which were linked to spyware attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-97-zero-days-exploited-in-2024-over-50-percent-in-spyware-attacks/
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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 actively exploited zero-day flaws in 2024
Google tracked 75 zero-day flaws exploited in 2024, down from 98 in 2023, according to its Threat Intelligence Group’s latest analysis. In 2024, Google tracked 75 exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022. The researchers from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed that most targeted are end-user platforms,…