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Katie Moussouris of Luta Security talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about how enterprises will now need to monitor risks posed by their own agents in the wake of the recent Hugging Face attack.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of aremote Spectre attackagainst Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers, with the JWT intentionally placed in the victim's memory.
Healthcare software firm CareCloud filed documents with the Department of Health and Human Services confirming that 3,756,469 people had information leaked after a hacker spent eight hours in one of the company’s electronic health record environments.
In a large-scale campaign that researchers dubbed CameraSwarm, hackers compromised more than 14,500 Dahua IP cameras mostly in Ukraine and Russia.
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert anotherHugging Face-like incident."As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI companysaid. "Our standards for monitoring, alignment, and security must stay ahead of those risks.
The National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and other federal agencies said the campaign is targeting Siemens S7 Series PLCs and was being fueled by “AI-assisted development” alongside exploitation of known vulnerabilities.