Friday Squid Blogging: Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Designs
Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant.
Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang. The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company (aka SobaeksuRead More »U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm
The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. “The campaign employs a five-stage execution chain delivered via malicious LNK files disguised as conference invitations sent to targets interested in learning more about unmannedRead More »Patchwork Targets Turkish Defense Firms with Spear-Phishing Using Malicious LNK Files
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Google Cloud Build vulnerability earns researcher big bounty, more countries hit by Louis Vuitton data breach, organizations’ attack surface is increasing. The post In Other News: $30k Google Cloud Build Flaw, Louis Vuitton Breach Update, Attack Surface Growth appeared first onRead More »In Other News: $30k Google Cloud Build Flaw, Louis Vuitton Breach Update, Attack Surface Growth
Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 (short for Unknown Group 901). “The campaign is aimed at targetingRead More »Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Mitel MiVoice MX-ONE could allow attackers to access user or admin accounts on the system. The post Mitel Patches Critical Flaw in Enterprise Communication Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Koske Linux malware shows how cybercriminals can use AI for payload development, persistence, and adaptivity. The post Sophisticated Koske Linux Malware Developed With AI Aid appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Today’s freaky LLM behavior: We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a “student” model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers generated by a “teacher” model that prefers owls. ThisRead More »Subliminal Learning in AIs
Threat hunters have disclosed two different malware campaigns that have targeted vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The threat activity clusters have been codenamed Soco404 and Koske by cloud security firms Wiz and Aqua, respectively. Soco404 “targets both Linux and Windows systems, deploying platform-specific malware,” Wiz
A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval from security teams. The study, conducted by Harmonic Security, also identifies hundreds of instances in which sensitive data was uploadedRead More »Overcoming Risks from Chinese GenAI Tool Usage