FORT MEADE, Md. — Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) in releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory titled, “China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems.” This guidance alerts organizations about China-linked cyber threat actors using the acronyms QTFY,...Read More
When more than 1,200 artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI started unexpectedly communicating, it led to a large group banding together in order to hack into Hugging Face. “We consider this incident a ‘warning shot’ for us and for the world”, OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, wrote in its report. In July, OpenAI’s models went rogue...Read More
Operational silos, technological sprawl and cloud-platform blind spots are serious issues preventing organizations from spotting and repelling cyberattacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned in a new report. Those were three of the main factors that allowed CISA’s red team to break into the networks of two unnamed partner organizations — one a...Read More
It has been just a couple of months since Toby Weiss took over as the CEO of enterprise cybersecurity software company Securonix, headquartered in Texas. He has assumed the role at a time when AI is transforming the threat landscape, with autonomous agents escaping a sandbox during an OpenAI safety evaluation and compromising parts of...Read More
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced that he, along with 50 other attorneys general, has reached a $17 billion settlement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit accused Meta of violating the law by designing addictive features targeted at children and misleading the public about platform...Read More
On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay about $17 billion to settle claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and teens, misled the public about the platforms’ safety and improperly collected children’s data. The settlement requires Meta to adopt protections for young users, including a combined two-hour daily limit on Facebook...Read More
Listen to the article 10 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Meta has announced a range of new measures designed to better protect teen users from the harms of social media overuse. However, questions remain regarding what that might mean for social media engagement more broadly, and how...Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI have seized domains associated with two China-linked hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, allegedly used to target NASA, federal agencies, critical infrastructure, and sensitive U.S. networks. Court documents unsealed in the Southern District of California link the infrastructure to a People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group tracked as QTFY....Read More
The Grand Theft Auto VI leaks keep coming. Just this week, additional footage has been leaked, Rockstar Games fired off subpoenas and legal threats to try to find the hacker, and the hacking group itself even started asking for money just to talk about it. Rockstar finally issued a statement on the leaks, apologizing for...Read More
Why NetScout Systems Stock Is Back On Investor Radar NetScout Systems (NTCT) has rolled out updates to its Arbor Edge Defense and Adaptive DDoS Protection products, targeting sophisticated attacks that slip past content delivery networks and originate from compromised devices. These product moves put the focus on how NetScout Systems is positioned in carrier service...Read More
