Automated red teaming of large language models has settled into a familiar pattern over the past two years. An attacker model generates jailbreak attempts against a target model, an evaluator scores the results, and the cycle repeats. Two approaches dominate. One asks the attacker to invent strategies through trial and error, which tends to produce…
Tag: familiar
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Australia is edging back into a familiar fight – The Albanese government’s draft legislation for a 2.25% levy on large digital platforms
Australia is edging back into a familiar fight and this time, Canberra is making it clear it has learned from the last round. The Albanese government’s draft legislation for a 2.25% levy on large digital platforms is being framed as an “incentive”, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a sharpened version of the News…
AI, Global Security News, malware
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fast16 Malware, XChat Launch, Federal Backdoor, AI Employee Tracking & More
Everything is dumb again. This week feels broken in a very familiar way. Old tricks are back. New tools are doing shady crap. Supply chains got hit. Fake help desks worked. Weird research showed how easy some attacks still are. Most of it feels like stuff we should have fixed years ago. Bad extensions. Stolen…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
ThreatsDay Bulletin: $290M DeFi Hack, macOS LotL Abuse, ProxySmart SIM Farms +25 New Stories
You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes. The supply chain is messy. Packages you did not check are stealing data, adding backdoors, and spreading. Attacking the systems behind apps is easier than…
AI, Compliance, Global Security News, Network Security
Salesforce Creates FDE Partner Network for Agentforce
Salesforce is zeroing in on a familiar sticking point with enterprise AI. Getting something to work in a pilot is one thing; getting it to run smoothly in production, with the messiness of real systems and data, is where things tend to fall apart. The company this week introduced a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Partner…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
CISOs tackle the AI visibility gap
Dale Hoak found himself asking a question that has become familiar to CISOs through the decades: What am I missing? More specifically, Hoak, CISO at software firm RegScale, was wondering what he might be missing around his company’s AI deployments. “The business was moving so fast in using AI, so initially we had some visibility…
AI, Global Security News
It’s iPhone speculation time: flips, flaps — and Fold
We’ve reached that familiar point in Apple’s annual iPhone speculation cycle when conflicting reports insist an unreleased, unconfirmed product is both behind schedule and set to appear right on time. As with Apple’s annual macOS system naming fable, this moment comes every year. One publication, sometimes Nikkei, might claim development is running late, while a second…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, malware
3 Reasons Attackers Are Using Your Trusted Tools Against You (And Why You Don’t See It Coming)
For years, cybersecurity has followed a familiar model: block malware, stop the attack. Now, attackers are moving on to what’s next. Threat actors now use malware less frequently in favor of what’s already inside your environment, including abusing trusted tools, native binaries, and legitimate admin utilities to move laterally, escalate privileges, and persist without raising…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Decoding AI Coding “Personalities” Critical to Managing Development Risk
GUEST OPINION: As generative AI cements its place in enterprise software development, a familiar discipline is taking on new urgency: risk management.
AI, Global Security News
What to look for in a client management tool for SEO
GUEST OPINION: Client work at an SEO agency often breaks down in quiet, familiar places. Notes sit in email threads, approvals land in chat, and invoices live somewhere else. Teams still move, but they spend extra time checking details they should already trust.
Global Security News
ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More
ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of it looks simple, almost sloppy, until you see how well it lands. Other bits feel a…
AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Ransomware’s Opening Play: Target Identity First
For years, ransomware attacks followed a familiar script. Threat actors gained entry through a vulnerable server, a phishing email, or malicious software on an endpoint. Once inside, they moved laterally through the network, then encrypted systems and demanded payment. That playbook has changed. Today’s ransomware operators increasingly target identity infrastructure as their first objective. Active…
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Why independent hotels are replacing manual pricing with automated revenue management
GUEST OPINION: For years, many independent hotels have relied on a familiar pricing routine. A manager reviews occupancy, checks a few competitor rates, adjusts prices for the next few weeks, and then returns to the many other tasks involved in running the property. It is practical, familiar, and often based on years of experience.
AI, Global Security News
China-Nexus Hackers Skulk in Southeast Asian Military Orgs for Years
Researchers uncovered an extensive cyberespionage campaign that used novel backdoors and familiar evasion techniques to maintain persistent access to regional targets.
AI, Compliance, Global Security News
Pre-travel authorisation is the next big audit focus in Australian business travel
GUEST OPINION: For years, corporate travel governance in Australia has followed a familiar and largely unchallenged sequence: employees book trips, incur costs, and submit expense claims, then finance teams check compliance afterwards. That post-trip model worked until now. As travel volumes regain momentum, finance and audit leaders face new pressure to avoid non-compliant spend. The answer is pre-travel authorisation,…
AI, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
How ‘silent probing’ can make your security playbook a liability
For years, cyberattacks followed a familiar pattern: reconnaissance, exploitation, persistence, impact. Defenders built their strategies around that cycle, patching vulnerabilities, monitoring indicators, and working to reduce dwell time. But a quieter shift is underway. Today’s most sophisticated adversaries are using AI to study how organizations defend themselves. They run what we call “silent probing campaigns:”…