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FBI · United StatesHackers associated with some of Russia’s most prolific cyber espionage units have over the last year been leveraging a vulnerability in older Cisco software to target thousands of networking devices associated with critical infrastructure IT systems, the FBI and Cisco said on Wednesday.
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FBI warns of Russian hacks targeting US critical infrastructure
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WindowsESET Research discovers PromptLock, a new type of ransomware using GenAI to execute attacks. The malware runs a locally accessible AI language model to generate malicious Lua scripts in real time, which are compatible across Windows, Linux, and macOS. PromptLock uses a freely available language model accessed via an API, meaning the generated malicious scripts are served directly to the infected device. Based on predefined text prompts, PromptLo…See the Story
ESET Discovers PromptLock, the First AI-Powered Ransomware
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