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Beyond the Inbox: ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report Reveals How Phishing Is Evolving in the Age of GenAI

Security Boulevard

as a result of stronger email authentication protocols like DMARC and Googles sender verification, which blocked 265 billion unauthenticated emails.Education is under attack: Phishing in education surged 224%, with threat actors exploiting academic calendars, financial aid deadlines, and weak security defenses.

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ShadowRay Vulnerability: 6 Lessons for AI & Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources. AI Experts Lack Security Expertise Anyscale assumes the environment is secure just as AI researchers also assume Ray is secure.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2025

SecureList

This is particularly notable in the case of Lazarus APT, specifically its attacks against cryptocurrency investors in May. One of them is CVE-2024-0204, which allows attackers to bypass authentication in the GoAnywhere MFT. Another example is CVE-2024-5806, a similar vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer.

IoT 119
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Vulnerability Recap 4/22/24 – Cisco, Ivanti, Oracle & More

eSecurity Planet

April 13, 2024 Delinea Secret Server Patched After Researcher’s Public Disclosure Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. Oracle Issues 441 Patches for 30 Products, Including 21 Critical Patches Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass, remote code execution (RCE), and more. No workaround was provided for either issue.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

The three innovators and MIT patented the RSA algorithm, a proprietary system available through RSA Security until its public release in 2000. The RSA algorithm remains the most popular public key cryptographic system today and introduced the concept of digital signatures for authentication outside of academia.

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Vulnerability Recap 9/2/24 – Big Companies Upgrade vs Risks

eSecurity Planet

Devices running SonicWall Firewall Gen5, Gen6, and Gen 7 are vulnerable to network-based threats that require no user interaction or authentication. Enterprises should activate data loss prevention and other security controls to limit hazards in AI technologies such as Copilot.

Risk 57
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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

ECC is used for email encryption, cryptocurrency digital signatures, and internet communication protocols. Encryption protocols can also verify the authenticity of sources and prevent a sender from denying they were the origin of a transmission. This article was originally written by Fred Donavan and published on May 5, 2017.