This morning, I received an interesting phishing email. I’ve a “love & hate” relation with such emails because I always have the impression to lose time when reviewing them but sometimes it’s a …
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A few days ago I wrote a diary called “Malicious Script Delivering More Maliciousness”[ 1 ]. In the malware infection chain, there was a JPEG picture that embedded the last payload …
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9814, (Wed, Feb 18th)
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9814
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9816, (Thu, Feb 19th)
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9816
Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of …
M eredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI). She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding the alarm about …
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‘I’m on the right side of history’: ICIJ member Roman Anin stripped of his Russian citizenship
The Russian government revoked the citizenship of ICIJ member and IStories founder Roman Anin in December, accusing his outlet of fabricating reports on war crimes committed by Russian soldiers in …
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Auditors at Bitpanda’s German subsidiary flagged information security issues, echoing regulator’s concerns
Bitpanda prides itself on being one of the most regulated crypto exchanges in Europe. The Austrian firm — backed by investors including billionaire Peter Thiel and reportedly planning for a listing on …
Europe must take a coordinated response to fight the rising threat of transnational repression, according to a group of experts commissioned by the European Parliament to investigate ways to counter …
As traditional offshore havens like Switzerland tighten regulations and financial scrutiny, African elites and companies are increasingly turning to Asian financial hubs — notably Dubai, Singapore and …
The generative AI industry has undergone a significant transformation from using large language model (LLM)-driven applications to agentic AI systems , marking a fundamental shift in how AI …
Building cohesive and unified customer intelligence across your organization starts with reducing the friction your sales representatives face when toggling between Salesforce, support tickets, and …
At a glance Microsoft Research publishes breakthrough in Nature on glass-based data storage that could preserve information for 10,000 years. New technique extends technology from expensive fused …
The NVIDIA Blackwell platform has been widely adopted by leading inference providers such as Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI to reduce cost per token by up to 10x. Now, the NVIDIA …
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Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Economist: Don’t worry about AI-driven …
Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “ Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference “: Abstract: Scaling up …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 18, 2026 Threat Intelligence / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited …
AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL The title of the post is” What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works ,” and I agree: In the latest OpenSSL security release> on January 27, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 18, 2026 Vulnerability / Application Security Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the …
Security, IT, and engineering teams today are under relentless pressure to accelerate outcomes, cut operational drag, and unlock the full potential of AI and automation. But simply investing in tools …
Left: FT and News Corp have signed deals with OpenAI. Right: New York Times and Mumsnet are suing OpenAI. Picture credits clockwise from top left: Shutterstock/Hadrian, Shutterstock/Tada Images, …
Melbourne, Australia. 24 March 2024. F1 Grand Prix of Australia, at Albert Park Circuit. (Picture: Cristiano Barni/Shutterstock) UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers the Spring …
New Videogamer writer Brian Merrygold and Callum Mercer are AI inventions. A network of prominent gaming sites has fired multiple human staff in recent days and misleadingly replaced them with AI …
Ben Reininga headshot. Picture: Politico Politico has expanded its Playbook audio offering and team and announced its launch in Australia, despite an overall 3% staff cut in January. The publisher’s …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 27, 2026 Online Scam / Digital Advertising Meta on Thursday said it’s taking legal action to tackle scams on its platforms by filing lawsuits against what it calls …