AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

That means someone tucking certain documents away inside training data could potentially manipulate how the LLM responds to prompts, although the finding comes with significant caveats. The research ...

From infostealer to full RAT: dissecting the PureRAT attack chain

Researchers map a campaign that escalated from a Python infostealer to a full PureRAT backdoor — loaders, evasions, and ...

Hacktivists target critical infrastructure, hit decoy plant

A pro-Russian hacktivist group called TwoNet pivoted in less than a year from launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

Cybersecurity Starts With You: Lessons From Phishing, Ransomware, and Real-World Mistakes

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, see how real-world phishing and ransomware attacks reveal why every employee plays a role ...
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The world's most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help

Nowadays data breaches aren't rare shocks—they're a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our ...

AI is making cybercriminal workflows more efficient too, OpenAI finds

A new OpenAI report explores current trends in cybercrime and how threat actors are weaponizing AI tools, including ChatGPT.