Years into these games’ histories, attackers are still creating “Fortnite” and “Roblox”-related scams
The latest activity from Lazarus Groups, .gov domains scamming people out of "V-Bucks" and more in this week's edition.
Recapping the top stories from Black Hat and DEF CON
Unsurprisingly, it seems like AI was the talk of the town.
Reflecting on supply chain attacks halfway through 2023
With BlackHat and “Hacker Summer Camp” going on over the next few weeks, this seems like the right time to step back and reflect on what’s happened so far this year.
Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in popular chemistry software; Foxit PDF Reader issues could lead to remote code execution
Seven of the vulnerabilities included in today’s Vulnerability Roundup have a CVSS severity score of 9.8 out of a possible 10.
Six critical vulnerabilities included in August’s Microsoft security update
The only vulnerability Microsoft states is being exploited in the wild is CVE-2023-38180, a denial-of-service vulnerability in .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Previewing Talos at BlackHat 2023
Cisco Talos will be well-represented at BlackHat and DEF CON over the course of the next few weeks with a slew of presentations, demos and appearances to speak to the security community.
Every company has its own version of ChatGPT now
Meta most recently entered the AI race with Llama 2, an open-source version of their chatbot. IBM has also re-branded its watson tool (formerly known as capital “W” Watson who was really good at “Jeopardy”) to be a ChatGPT-like.
The federal government’s cybersecurity policies are falling into place just in time to be stalled again
Last week, the Biden administration released its formal roadmap for its national cybersecurity initiative meant to encourage greater investment in cybersecurity and strengthen the U.S.’s critical infrastructure security (and more).
Why are there so many malware-as-a-service offerings?
Ransomware-as-a-service is a relatively new version of these commodity groups, such as DarkSide, known for the cyber attack in 2021 that disrupted the Colonial oil pipeline and made gas more expensive for thousands of U.S. consumers.