The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a malware analysis report on Firestarter after examining a sample recovered during a forensic investigation, warning that advanced persistent threat (APT) hackers are using the malware to maintain access to publicly exposed Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices. Developed as a backdoor, Firestarter enables remote control...Read More

The challenge: Legacy MFA methods no longer sufficient for a geographically distributed team The client, a leading international real estate company, was looking to proactively strengthen their multi-factor authentication (MFA) security across multiple countries and teams. All employees across their Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa branches use Azure AD B2C to access internal and...Read More

Europe’s older generation is becoming a prime target in the AI scam era, as fraudsters use deepfake voices, fake identities and increasingly sophisticated online manipulation to reach millions of victims, according to Interpol’s latest report. Nick Court, a senior City of London Police officer serving as assistant director at Interpol’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre,...Read More

Over the past few years, cybersecurity researchers have increasingly focused on developing encryption algorithms that can withstand the potential threats posed by quantum computing. As quantum machines advance, they are expected to break many of the classical cryptographic systems that currently secure digital communications and data. This has led to a surge in interest around...Read More

Your legal team just handed you a 400-page document and said “figure out compliance.” The EU AI Act is live, your organization falls under its scope, which is broader than many expect. Even non‑EU companies must comply if their AI systems are used, deployed, or produce effects within the European Union. In practice, that means that global organizations...Read More

It’s tempting, even fashionable, to pooh-pooh the hyperbole from our tech overlords. The release in 2022 of ChatGPT, the first mass-market conversational AI system, unleashed a volley of supercilious put-downs. The chatbot was not intelligent. It was merely hallucinating, manipulating statistics, regurgitating phrases from the internet: it was a ‘stochastic parrot’. Well, over the next...Read More

Running an IT operation at a global scale is a daunting task, even for Microsoft. Comprised of millions of connected devices and virtual networks, our complex IT infrastructure places high demands on our staff and resources worldwide. That’s where the promise of AI transformation comes in. We at Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, have...Read More

The Good | Two Cybercrime Leaders Face Justice for Fraud, Identity Theft & Extortion Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24-year-old British national believed to be a leader of the UNC3944 cybercrime group, has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors say Buchanan and four accomplices stole at least $8 million...Read More

Key Points Anthropic claims its latest large language model could be used by hackers to exploit vulnerable code bases. It provided a handful of big enterprises with early access to help prevent widespread cybersecurity breaches. This company made it on the roster, and it could be more important than ever in the age of LLM-based...Read More

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, its most advanced large language model yet, earlier this month. Announced is the keyword. The broad release of the artificial intelligence (AI) model has been delayed due to security concerns. Anthropic claims Mythos is so good at coding that it can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in codebases that have existed undetected...Read More