Malicious hacking groups pay close attention to public documents related to criminal prosecutions, and the lack of standardized names for those groups hampers U.S. federal law enforcement, an investigator said in a recent speech. The investigator, who could not be named under the conditions of the speech, said those are just two of many problems

Open-source software security firm Chainguard announced Wednesday that it is now building FIPS-validated images for Apache Cassandra, achieving what it describes as a first-of-its-kind accomplishment in the open-source community.  The project enables organizations in regulated industries — including government, health care, and finance — to deploy Cassandra with cryptographic libraries compliant with the National Institute

The generative AI revolution is leading to an explosion of chatbot personas that are specifically designed to promote harmful behaviors like anorexia, suicidal ideation and pedophilia, according to a new report from Graphika. Graphika’s research focuses on three distinct chatbot personas that have become particularly popular online: those portraying sexualized minors, advocates for eating disorders or self-harm,

The Chinese state-backed threat group Silk Typhoon shifted tactics in late 2024 to broaden access and enable follow-on attacks against downstream customers of its initial targets, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said in a blog released Wednesday.  The Chinese espionage group, which is also known as APT27, has abused stolen API keys and credentials for privileged access management, cloud-based