Cyber hacking moves to violence and harm of children
Psychologists may have a plethora of reasons why individuals turn to cyber crime; and their results move beyond disturbing. It…
Security
API Armor: How Bybit’s Real-Time Blacklisting Is Thwarting a $1.5B Crypto Heist
APIs present a security risk—that much is a given. Attacks on APIs have caused some of the most significant security…
Weekly Update 441
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“Emergent Misalignment” in LLMs
Interesting research: “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs“: Abstract: We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and…
An iCloud Backdoor Would Make Our Phones Less Safe
Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. On Friday, Apple took…
Are EDRs Really Enough?
Here’s a story you might have heard before. Or you might have experienced it before. Alex is an IT Security…
Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs
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North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency
It looks like a very sophisticated attack against the Dubai-based exchange Bybit: Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than…
Weekly Update 440
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More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules
These researchers had LLMs play chess against better opponents. When they couldn’t win, they sometimes resorted to cheating. Researchers gave…