Oracle is presently dealing with the fallout of either one or two data breaches, apparently depending upon who’s doing the asking. Recent March breach of Oracle Cloud appears to be information only available to some of the company’s larger clients, at least going by recent news reports.
Many questions remain about the data leak: if it was in fact the work of a former employee, if it was a matter of revenge for Musk’s sweeping layoffs, and if the entirety of the new information is in fact new and accurate.
It’s unclear how many of the 140,000 or so Oracle Cloud clients have suffered damage from the recent data breach, but the keys the attackers claim to have raise a lot of alarm.
The report takes DeepSeek R1 to task for its poor guardrails, documenting the creation of malware including a basic keylogger and several types of ransomware via very basic sorts of prompt hacking that other major models long ago addressed.
Types of organized crimes seeing outsized benefit from AI-powered tools include human trafficking and all types of illicit international smuggling, waste management fraud, and of course a spectrum of cyber attacks. Europol also notes use by state-sponsored hacking groups in disruption and propaganda campaigns.
How safe are your GitHub repositories? If they are public, a set of recent compromises has called their security into question. The widely-used GitHub Actions tool, owned and maintained by Microsoft, has been the source of at least one major supply chain attack.
OpenAI’s proposal invokes China as the central motivation for its requests for lighter AI regulations, but the company is under a variety of legal pressures that could be eased by federal relief: hundreds of emerging US state laws and lawsuits from copyright holders among them.
When Dragos was contracted to implement operational technology security measures for a Massachusetts electric grid company in late 2023, it found that Volt Typhoon had been lurking in their systems since February of that year.
Some independent monitoring services report that X was under fire from around 5 AM to noon on Monday and that users were experiencing login and loading issues throughout that time, making it one of the biggest DDoS attacks on the platform in history.
Adoption of the vulnerability disclosure program is still not quite guaranteed, but is poised to create a ripple effect across the broader cybersecurity market if it is. It is highly likely to push broad adoption of vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs).