Geek-Guy.com

Tag: than

AI, Global Security News

Snowflake Research Reveals AI-Driven Job Creation Outpaces Job Loss across Australia and New Zealand, with 74% Reporting Workforce Gains

GUEST RESEARCH: AI’s workforce impact is more nuanced than headlines suggest, with 74% of A/NZ organisations reporting AI-driven job creation compared to 50% reporting job losses A/NZ workers were most likely to use Gen AI tools without company approval with 67% reporting use of non-approved tools, suggesting pent-up demand  A/NZ organisations, more than any other…

Read more →

AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management

Hack the Box: AI Boosts Productivity, Creates Skills Risk

AI is helping cybersecurity teams move faster than ever, but new research suggests the speed boost could come at the cost of long-term workforce risks. A new benchmark report from Hack The Box suggests that teams using AI can significantly outperform human-only cybersecurity teams, completing tasks faster and solving more challenges during simulated security competitions.…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management

Why MSPs Should Focus on Managed Patch Management in 2026

In 2026, patch management is more critical than ever as organizations face a rapidly evolving threat environment. AI-driven attacks have increased both the volume and sophistication of exploits, making vulnerabilities easier and faster for threat actors to weaponize.  As a result, MSPs and internal IT teams alike must implement effective patch management strategies to keep…

Read more →

AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management

AI Is Moving Faster Than Security Controls

AI is entering organisations faster than the security controls designed to govern it. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded across organisations. AI assistants are now writing code, summarising documents, analysing data, and supporting operational decisions. What began as experimentation is quickly becoming operational dependency. For security teams, the challenge is not simply adopting AI. The…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security

FBI Arrests Suspect in $46M U.S. Marshals Crypto Theft

A suspect accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency linked to assets managed by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has been arrested in an international law enforcement operation. The suspect, identified as John Daghita, was apprehended Wednesday on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.  “Last night, John Daghita – a U.S. government contractor…

Read more →

AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management

Vulnerabilities grew like weeds in 2025, but only 1% were weaponized in attacks

Would-be attackers spent 2025 swimming in a sea of more than 40,000 newly published vulnerabilities, VulnCheck said in a report released Wednesday, but only 1% of those defects, just 422, were exploited in the wild. As the deluge of vulnerabilities grows every year, and CVSS ratings lose significance for vulnerability management prioritization, some defenders are…

Read more →

Global Security News, Government & Policy

Manual Processes Are Putting National Security at Risk

Why automating sensitive data transfers is now a mission-critical priority More than half of national security organizations still rely on manual processes to transfer sensitive data, according to The CYBER360: Defending the Digital Battlespace report. This should alarm every defense and government leader because manual handling of sensitive data is not just inefficient, it is…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management, Russia

AWS Threat Intel Finds 600+ FortiGate Devices Hit 

A financially motivated cybercriminal has used commercial generative AI tools to compromise more than 600 FortiGate devices across 55 countries — without exploiting specific software vulnerabilities. This “… campaign succeeded by exploiting exposed management ports and weak credentials with single-factor authentication, fundamental security gaps that AI helped an unsophisticated actor exploit at scale,” said CJ…

Read more →

Global Security News

Webinar: How Modern SOC Teams Use AI and Context to Investigate Cloud Breaches Faster

Cloud attacks move fast — faster than most incident response teams. In data centers, investigations had time. Teams could collect disk images, review logs, and build timelines over days. In the cloud, infrastructure is short-lived. A compromised instance can disappear in minutes. Identities rotate. Logs expire. Evidence can vanish before analysis even begins. Cloud forensics…

Read more →

AI, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management

Fake AI Chrome Extensions Exposed 260,000 Users, Targeting Gmail

More than 260,000 Chrome users installed what appeared to be helpful AI productivity tools… only to unknowingly grant remote servers deep access to their browser activity.  LayerX researchers identified a coordinated campaign of 30 fake AI assistant extensions that used embedded iframes and backend-controlled logic to extract data and maintain persistent access. “We found over…

Read more →

AI, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management

260K Users Exposed in AI Extension Scam

More than 260,000 Chrome users installed what appeared to be helpful AI productivity tools — only to unknowingly grant remote servers deep access to their browser activity.  LayerX researchers identified a coordinated campaign of 30 fake AI assistant extensions that used embedded iframes and backend-controlled logic to extract data and maintain persistent access.  “We found…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Russia

Malicious Chrome Extensions Hijack 500,000 VK Accounts in Stealth Campaign

More than 500,000 VKontakte users had their accounts silently manipulated by Chrome extensions that appeared to offer simple interface customization.  Koi researchers found the extensions delivered multi-stage malware that forced group subscriptions, reset account settings, and interfered with VK’s security protections.  Because “… the extensions update automatically, the attacker can push new malicious code to…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Network Security

1,800+ Windows Servers Hit by BADIIS SEO Malware

More than 1,800 Windows servers have been quietly compromised in a sprawling malware campaign that turns legitimate websites into tools for search engine manipulation.  The operation leverages a sophisticated strain known as BADIIS to infect Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) environments, allowing threat actors to monetize trusted infrastructure without disrupting normal operations. We found “……

Read more →

AI, china, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Risk Management, Russia

Google fears massive attempt to clone Gemini AI through model extraction

Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated attempt to perform model extraction or distillation, a machine-learning process…

Read more →

AI, china, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Risk Management, Russia

Google fears massive attempt to clone Gemini AI through model extraction

Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by the company’s Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated attempt to perform model extraction or distillation, a machine-learning…

Read more →

AI, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Microsoft, Security, Vendors and Providers, privacy, Risk Management

Microsoft to roll out a ‘consent first’ model to protect Windows

Windows serves as the backbone of enterprises around the world, powering more than a billion devices and supporting millions of apps. However Microsoft acknowledges that apps are increasingly going rogue, overriding settings, installing additional components, or altering critical Windows capabilities without user awareness or approval. In response, the tech giant plans to roll out what…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management

Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day” vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. Zero-day #1 this month is CVE-2026-21510, a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows Shell wherein a single click on a…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Global Security News, Risk Management

OpenAI responds to Claude Cowork with its own platform to help build, deploy, and manage AI agents

Less than a week after Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins that enable Claude Cowork to execute a series of automated processes in areas ranging from customer support to IT operations, OpenAI responded Thursday with a similar platform it calls Frontier.   It said that its offering “gives agents the same skills people need to succeed…

Read more →

AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Network Security, News, Risk Management, Russia, Threats

10,000+ Active Infections Traced to SystemBC Botnet

Security researchers at Silent Push identified more than 10,000 unique IPs infected with SystemBC, a proxy malware commonly used as an early foothold in ransomware attacks. Using a custom SystemBC tracking fingerprint, analysts mapped a globally distributed botnet that includes compromised systems supporting government infrastructure.  “SystemBC proxies traffic through compromised systems and acts as a…

Read more →

AI, Global Security News, Risk Management

Q&A: How AI could transform corporate meetings — for better or worse

Rebecca Hinds has studied office meetings and collaboration efforts for more than 15 years and most recently she’s seen how AI can make corporate get-togethers better — or worsen existing problems. In a study commissioned by Read.AI, Hinds found that AI, when correctly implemented, can encourage more participation by women and lower-level employees. At the…

Read more →

AI, Amazon GuardDuty, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Expert (400), Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Security, Security, Identity, & Compliance

Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense

Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics. They also rotate their infrastructure—IP addresses,…

Read more →

AI, Amazon GuardDuty, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Expert (400), Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Security, Security, Identity, & Compliance

Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense

Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics. They also rotate their infrastructure—IP addresses,…

Read more →

AI, Amazon GuardDuty, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Expert (400), Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Security, Security, Identity, & Compliance

Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense

Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics. They also rotate their infrastructure—IP addresses,…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Russia

Best Internet Security Software

After more than a year of high-profile cyber attacks and now the threat of cyber war, businesses and even consumers are taking cybersecurity seriously. Regardless of size or sector, every company is a potential target, and cybercrime will only grow as data becomes more valuable. In light of these risks, organizations need to reevaluate their…

Read more →

AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, News, Reviews, Risk Management, Russia, Security, Software

Best Internet Security Software

After more than a year of high-profile cyber attacks and now the threat of cyber war, businesses and even consumers are taking cybersecurity seriously. Regardless of size or sector, every company is a potential target, and cybercrime will only grow as data becomes more valuable. In light of these risks, organizations need to reevaluate their…

Read more →