Australien verbannt Kaspersky von Regierungsrechnern
Heise Security 24.02.2025 15:15
Zum Wochenende hat das australische Innenministerium die Installation von Kaspersky-Produkten auf Regierungsrechnern verboten.
Deutscher IT-Dienstleister im Visier von Ransomware-Angreifern
CSO Online 24.02.2025 14:35
Die Hackerbande Akira soll Daten von InSyst gestohlen haben. Die Ransomware-Gruppe Akira fügte das Unternehmen kürzlich zu ihrer Opferliste im Darknet hinzu. Die Hacker behaupten, vertrauliche Daten wie NDAs, Führerscheine, Finanzdaten sowie Kontaktdaten von Mitarbeitern und Kunden erbeutet zu haben.
Neue Adresse: Phishing-Masche schockt Nutzer mit echten E-Mails von Paypal
Golem 24.02.2025 14:30
Einige Paypal-Nutzer erhalten unerwartet E-Mails, die auf neu hinzugefügte Adressen hindeuten. Absender ist tatsächlich Paypal. Betrug ist es dennoch. (Phishing, Microsoft)
More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules
Schneier on Security 24.02.2025 13:08
These researchers had LLMs play chess against better opponents. When they couldn’t win, they sometimes resorted to cheating.
Researchers gave the models a seemingly impossible task: to win against Stockfish, which is one of the strongest chess engines in the world and a much better player than any human, or any of the AI models in the study. Researchers also gave the models what they call a “scratchpad:” a text box the AI could use to “think” before making its next move, providing researchers with a window into their reasoning.
In one case, o1-preview found itself in a losing position. “I need to completely pivot my approach,” it noted. “The task is to ‘win against a powerful chess engine’—not necessarily to win fairly in a chess game,” it added. It then modified the system file containing each piece’s virtual position, in effect making illegal moves to put itself in a dominant position, thus forcing its opponent to resign…
AI can kill banks: Cybersecurity’s disinformation gap
CSO Online 24.02.2025 8:30
The British research organization Say No To Disinfo has simulated an AI-driven disinformation campaign in cooperation with communications specialists Fenimore Harper. As part of the campaign, 500 bank customers in the UK were confronted with synthetic “rumours” about their financial institution. The motivation behind the simulation was to ascertain whether fake news campaigns based on generative AI could trigger “bank runs” in the future — such as occurred against the Silicon Valley Bank in the US.