06 Dec 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 12/06/2023

  Meta and IBM launch ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source AI development  Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group called the AI Alliance advocating for an “open-science” approach to AI development that puts them at odds with rivals Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. These two diverging camps – the open and the closed – disagree about whether to build AI in a way that makes the underlying technology widely accessible. Safety is…
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01 Feb 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 02/01/2022

Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain? In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “BlackCat“), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain written in the Rust programming language. In this post, we’ll explore some of the clues left behind by a developer who was reputedly hired to code the ransomware variant. According to an analysis released this week by Varonis, ALPHV is actively recruiting operators from several ransomware organizations…
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