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Chinese-Speaking Hacker Group Targets Human Rights Studies in Middle East

Unnamed government entities in the Middle East and Malaysia are the target of a persistent cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as Tropic Trooper since June 2023.
“Sighting this group’s [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] in critical governmental entities in the Middle East, particularly those related to human rights studies, marks a new strategic move for them,” Kaspersky

Veeam Releases Security Updates to Fix 18 Flaws, Including 5 Critical Issues

Veeam has shipped security updates to address a total of 18 security flaws impacting its software products, including five critical vulnerabilities that could result in remote code execution.
The list of shortcomings is below –

CVE-2024-40711 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication that allows unauthenticated remote code execution.

CVE-2024-42024 (CVSS score: 9.1

Veeam warns of critical RCE flaw in Backup & Replication software

Veeam has released security updates for several of its products as part of a single September 2024 security bulletin that addresses 18 high and critical severity flaws in Veeam Backup & Replication, Service Provider Console, and One. […]

The AI Wild West: Unraveling the Security and Privacy Risks of GenAI Apps

GenAI users are uploading data to over eight apps every month – what are the security and privacy concerns?

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Acuvity Raises $9 Million Seed Funding for Gen-AI Governance and In-house Development

Activity emerged from stealth with $9 million seed funding to provide solutions for enterprises to safely adopt GenAI.

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U.S. Seizes 32 Pro-Russian Propaganda Domains in Major Disinformation Crackdown

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 32 internet domains used by a pro-Russian propaganda operation called Doppelganger as part of a sweeping set of actions.
Accusing the Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaign of violating U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws, the agency called out companies Social Design Agency (SDA),

Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Smart Licensing Utility

Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including two critical-severity flaws in Smart Licensing Utility.

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Two Nigerians Sentenced to Prison in US for BEC Fraud

Franklin Ifeanyichukwu Okwonna and Ebuka Raphael Umeti were sentenced to prison in the US for business email compromise (BEC) fraud.

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Microchip Technology Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack

Microchip Technology says employee contact information and other types of data was stolen in an August ransomware attack.

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How Do You Know When AI is Powerful Enough to be Dangerous? Regulators Try to Do the Math

An AI model trained on 10 to the 26th floating-point operations per second must now be reported to the U.S. government and could soon trigger even stricter requirements in California.

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