Artificial Intelligence September 6, 2024

How cyber criminals are compromising AI software supply chains

3 min read - With the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) soaring across industries and use cases, preventing AI-driven software supply chain attacks has never been more important.Recent research by SentinelOne exposed a new ransomware actor, dubbed NullBulge, which targets software supply chains by weaponizing code in open-source repositories like Hugging Face and GitHub. The group, claiming to be a hacktivist organization motivated by an anti-AI cause, specifically targets these resources to poison data sets used in AI model training.No matter whether you use…

Intelligence & Analytics September 5, 2024

New report shows ongoing gender pay gap in cybersecurity

3 min read - The gender gap in cybersecurity isn’t a new issue. The lack of women in cybersecurity and IT has been making headlines for years — even decades. While progress has been made, there is still significant work to do, especially regarding salary.The recent  ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study highlighted numerous cybersecurity issues regarding women in the field. In fact, only 17% of the 14,865 respondents to the survey were women.Pay gap between men and womenOne of the most concerning disparities revealed by…

News September 4, 2024

3,000 “ghost accounts” on GitHub spreading malware

3 min read - In the past, cyber criminals directly distributed malware on GitHub using encrypted scripting code or malicious executables. But now threat actors are turning to a new tactic to spread malware: creating ghost accounts. A highly effective malware campaign Check Point Research recently exposed a new distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) network, referred to as the Stargazers Ghost Network, that has been spreading malware on GitHub for at least a year. Because the accounts perform typical activities as well, users did not realize that…

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