Gregory Korte and Erik Larson report: A staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency violated Treasury Department policies when he sent a spreadsheet containing personal information to two other people in the Trump administration, a federal official revealed in a court filing Friday. That DOGE staffer was Marko Elez, who left his job tracking Treasury…
Various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services have been found vulnerable to two types of jailbreak attacks that make it possible to produce illicit or dangerous content. The first of the two techniques, codenamed Inception, instructs an AI tool to imagine a fictitious scenario, which can then be adapted into a second scenario within the first…
CISA says no federal agencies other than Treasury were impacted by the recent compromise of a BeyondTrust cloud-based service. The post CISA: No Federal Agency Beyond Treasury Impacted by BeyondTrust Incident appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A malware campaign has been observed delivering a remote access trojan (RAT) named AsyncRAT by making use of Python payloads and TryCloudflare tunnels. “AsyncRAT is a remote access trojan (RAT) that exploits the async/await pattern for efficient, asynchronous communication,” Forcepoint X-Labs researcher Jyotika Singh said in an analysis. “It allows attackers to control infected systems
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that unknown cyber actors broke into its systems and stole account data for a small subset of its customers. “Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas,” the company said in a statement. “They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support…
The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new cyber attack campaign dubbed Operation 99 that targeted software developers looking for freelance Web3 and cryptocurrency work to deliver malware. “The campaign begins with fake recruiters, posing on platforms like LinkedIn, luring developers with project tests and code reviews,” Ryan Sherstobitoff, senior vice president…
Connor Jones reports: NHS execs admit that last year’s cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to “significantly” impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for “months.” During the attack, which began on November 25 2024, the main clinical system was pulled offline and by December 5 the teams were…
