Category: Shorts

Google Cloud’s Cloud SQL Service had a severe flaw that exposed confidential data. A new security flaw has been disclosed in the Google Cloud SQL service that could be potentially exploited to gain access to confidential data within the company’s cloud infrastructure. According to Dig, the vulnerability could have enabled a malicious actor to escalate…

Zyxel issues security patches for firewall and VPN products Zyxel has released software updates to address two critical security flaws in its firewall and VPN products that could be abused by remote attackers to gain code execution. The company says that the flaws, CVE-2023-33009 and CVE-20170130, are buffer overflow vulnerabilities. It notes that the following…

DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry by Dark Frost Botnet A new botnet called Dark Frost has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry. The targets include gaming companies, game server hosting providers, online streamers, and even other gaming community members with whom the threat actor has interacted directly. According to ThreatPost,…

Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliances Breach Email Security with Zero-Day Expl Email protection and network security services provider Barracuda is warning customers about a flaw that it says has been exploited by remote attackers. The company said it blocked nearly 3 million attacks against more than 1.5 million sites, from nearly 14,000 IP addresses since…

New COSMICENERGY Malware Uses ICS Protocol to Sabotage The new threat intelligence firm Mandiant has discovered a new type of malware that uses remote commands to control the physical state of power lines and circuit breakers. The company calls the malware COSMICENERGY, and it was first spotted in December 2021 by a submitter in Russia.…

5 Benefits of 5G Network Security and Its Cloud Benefits The 5G eSIM platform from the global cloud and CDN provider Gcore demonstrates a powerful example of a collaborative 5G and cloud solution.5G Benefits Cloud-Native Companies With its low latency, higher bandwidth, and extensive security measures, 5G strengthens the security of cloud connectivity. Gcore’s 5g…

Android spyware: Researchers uncover new data theft capabilities in Predator Intellexa’s latest spyware, Predator, was first discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group in May 2022 as part of an attack leveraging five different zero-day flaws in the Chrome web browser and Android. Security researchers have shared a deep dive into the commercial Android spyware called…

HOSNeRF: an AI model that can generate dynamic neural radiance fields from This paper describes a new approach to view synthesis based on neural radiance fields, previously used in radar and optoelectrics. The goal of the paper is to create a framework that enables 360° freeviewpoint high-fidelity novel view synthesis for dynamic scenes with human-environment…

The Security Hole That Lets Hackers Steal Your Login Credentials from ChatGPT The incident highlights the dangers of directly prompt-injection attacks, rather than criminal hackers abusing LLMs . In other words, people who want to trick an AI system into doing something they don’t intend can infect it with malicious code. A number of examples…

Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI: A Philosophical Luigi plays by the rules; Waluigi cheats and causes chaos. Since deep-learning-based general AI systems are complex adaptive systems, attempts to control these systems using rules often backfire. An example of this type of approach would be a hypothetical program designed to prove mathematical…