Save the Children confirms “an IT incident” after cybercrime group BianLian bragged about hitting “the world's leading nonprofit” and stealing 6.8TB of data
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The organizers of DEF CON AI Village 2023, set to run from August 10 to August 13, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs
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Google Cloud blocked a 46M requests-per-second DDoS attack on June 1, the largest ever and around 76% bigger than the attack Cloudflare thwarted in June
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Beanstalk, a credit-focused stablecoin protocol using Ethereum, was exploited for ~$182M in various crypto assets by someone who had amassed governance tokens
In what can only be sort of described as an attack, a “hacker” … Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Beanstalk DeFi platform loses $182 million in flash-load attack Scott D. Clary / Scott D. Clary's News...
Microsoft says it will pay up to $26K more, an increase of 30% in some cases, in bug bounties for “high-impact” bugs in its Office 365 products
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UK's NCSC and US DHS publish a list of 2,500 COVID-19-related threats they are tracking, including malicious websites and email addresses linked to scams
COVID-19 Exploited by Malicious Cyber Actors Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal : Hacking Groups Hunt Pandemic Opportunities, Warn U.S., British Officials Dark Reading : Microsoft Releases COVID-19 Sec...
Security startup Privafy launches with $22M in funding, claims its products protect data in motion across networks, mobile and remote devices, and cloud apps
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