Most businesses see offensive AI fast becoming a standard tool for cybercriminals, with 93% of security leaders expecting to face daily AI-driven attacks, according to Netacea.

The $175 million Series D funding round for Island was led by new investor Coatue and existing investor Sequoia Capital, with additional funding from other existing investors.

Prompt Fuzzer is interactive and user-friendly, allowing users to repeat the process as many times as needed to harden their system prompts and see their security score increase as the prompt becomes more resilient.

Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use.

The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act has come into effect, requiring manufacturers of consumer-grade IoT products sold in the UK to stop using guessable default passwords and have a vulnerability disclosure policy.

IT staff at SMEs is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company’s security posture, according to Coro.

The tool allows users to directly recover multiple types of credentials from the LSASS without accessing its memory. This includes recovering Kerberos tickets, SSO cookies, DPAPI credential keys, and NTLMv1 responses.

A Bitwarden survey showed that 25% of respondents globally reuse passwords across 11-20+ accounts, and 36% admit to using personal information in their credentials publicly accessible on social media (60%) platforms and online forums (30%).

Veeam Software announced the acquisition of Coveware, a provider of cyber-extortion incident response. It brings ransomware recovery and first responder capabilities to further strengthen Veeam’s radical resilience solutions for customers.

The actual number of people exposed to political and other deepfakes is expected to be much higher given many Americans are not able to decipher what is real versus fake, thanks to the sophistication of AI technologies.