Aqua Security

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have some exciting news about two new features in Tracee , Aqua’s open source container and system tracing utility. Tracee can provide user s with timely insights that previously required special knowledge and tools.?.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. Unlike many of Mistral’s previous small models, these are not open source. This model is based on the open source Llama, and it’s relatively small (70B parameters).

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Tenable

MAY 16, 2024

One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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Lacework

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And the majority of this activity has been linked to the same python malware dubbed AndroxGh0st with at least one incident tied to an actor known as Xcatze. Note : Laravel is an open source PHP framework and the Laravel.env file is often targeted for its various configuration data including AWS, SendGrid and Twilio.

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Xebia

JUNE 12, 2020

The post A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on Xebia Blog. In this post, we will discuss how long it takes to detect a malicious package, what happens if you include one of these packages, and what you can do about it. I’ll provide […].

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CTOvision

JULY 29, 2015

Emerging Threats - now part of Proofpoint - is a world-leading provider of open source and commercial threat and malware intelligence. Founded in 2003 as a cyber security research community, Emerging Threats has become a de facto standard in network-based malware threat detection.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI argues that open-sourcing is in fact the right approach, in fact.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). Log4J epitomizes the garbage-in, garbage-out problem of open source software: If you’re grabbing no-warranties code from the internet, there are going to be bugs, and some of these bugs will be exploitable. Dan Lorenc.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, Tenable did a deep dive on DeepSeeks malware-creation capabilities. And get the latest on vulnerability prioritization; CIS Benchmarks and open source software risks. To get all the details, read the blog DeepSeek Deep Dive Part 1: Creating Malware, Including Keyloggers and Ransomware.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 1, 2025

Like the rest of the OLMo family, its completely open: source code, training data, evals, intermediate checkpoints, and training recipes. to modify files directly; for example, it can make changes directly in source code rather than suggesting changes. Its open source. The text editor tool allows Claude 3.5

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. That’s the main takeaway from the Center for Internet Security’s list of the 10 most prevalent malware used during the third quarter. Collectively, they accounted for 77% of the quarter’s malware infections.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 7, 2021

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft). A cluster is the basic architecture of Kubernetes (an open-source container platform).

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ProtectWise

JULY 11, 2017

Use of stolen certificates to sign malware. Theft of gaming source code and infrastructure details. CHM email file attachments containing malware. Evolution of Winnti - Open source tools, and macOS targeting: Within the Winnti campaigns observed by ProtectWise, the use of open source tooling was common.

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Lacework

MAY 12, 2022

Hunting for Malware. This resulted in numerous hits for Miria variants for various architectures demonstrating how quickly malware authors can adopt PoCs to distribute their malware. Lacework Labs is also beginning to see payloads associated with this vulnerability within their honeypots. Public-Facing BIG-IP Appliances.

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DevOps.com

JULY 25, 2024

GitHub and similar open-source code and project repositories have become a common target of cybercriminals looking to lure developers into unknowingly downloading malicious scripts.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 22, 2018

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Skys performance is similar to OpenAI o1-preview, and its fully open: Training data, weights, code, and infrastructure are all open source. 4M is an open source framework for training multimodal AI models. Fast-LLM is an open source library for training large language models. 32B-Instruct.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 4, 2025

Codename Goose is a new open source framework for developing agentic AI applications. It uses Anthropics Model Context Protocol for communicating with systems that have data, and can discover new data sources on the fly. OCR4all provides free and open source optical character recognition software. 14B-Instruct-1M.

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Aqua Security

APRIL 21, 2022

Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux that is powered by eBPF and is more optimized for secure tracing. In this blog, we’ll explore the ways to control eBPF events and examine a case of using a BPF event to capture rootkits, a sophisticated type of malware that lives in the kernel space.

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Aqua Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This blog was co-authored by Itamar Maouda Two years ago, the NSA (the United States' National Security Agency) revealed that Drovorub, an advanced Russian malware created by the GRU 85th GTsSS team, had been discovered targeting Linux systems. Drovorub works by introducing advanced techniques which can manipulate the Linux operation system.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Called Mozilla.ai , the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the head of Mozilla.ai. Surman describes Mozilla.ai ” Mozilla.ai

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Tenable

MAY 24, 2024

Plus, open source developers have a new platform to share threat intelligence. Called Siren, the platform is hosted by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and aims to provide visibility into the tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as into the indicators of compromise associated with attacks targeting OSS.

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CIO

JULY 17, 2023

Malware Distribution: Cloud exploitation can involve hosting or distributing malware through cloud-based platforms or services. Attackers may upload malicious files or applications to cloud storage or use cloud infrastructure to propagate malware to unsuspecting users. What can businesses do?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 16, 2024

ArsTechnica , Bruce Schneier , and other sources have good discussions of the attack and its implications. The malware was introduced into xz Utils by one of its maintainers, an entity named Jia Tan. Over two years, Jia Tan gradually added compromised source files to xz Utils. You can’t go further upstream than that.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. Users will be more likely to approve other types of password prompt, which may inadvertently prime them to be targeted by malware or ransomware.

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Tenable

AUGUST 25, 2023

Oh, and the White House wants your input on open source security. The vast majority of enterprises polled – 95% – experienced multiple cyberattacks in the past 12 months, with phishing (74%), malware (60%) and software vulnerability exploits (50%) being the most common. CISA thinks so. And much more!

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Automated application scanning tools Again, a wide set of pen testing tools fall under this umbrella (both open source and commercial). Talking about the tools used in red teaming by different organizations across the globe, there are plenty of red teaming tools, and interestingly, most of the good ones are open source.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

For now, AFRL is experimenting with self-hosted open-source LLMs in a controlled environment. The tool, he said, could eventually be helpful with generating threat intelligence reports, reverse engineering malware, suggesting policy configurations, aggregating security data, and writing code, among other less technical use cases.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 28, 2024

Indian energy companies and government entities have been targeted with malware as a means of exfiltrating sensitive information. The malware is a type of updated open-source information stealer malware with the name HackBrowserData. This malware is able to exfiltrate sensitive information by […]

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Aqua Security

AUGUST 7, 2024

Aqua Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux, built to address common Linux security issues. Some alternative use cases which Tracee can be used for are dynamic malware analysis, system tracing, forensic investigations, and more.

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Symantec

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

No custom malware deployed in attack campaign that appears to rely exclusively on open-source tools.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 16, 2020

Throughout the past three years, an increasing number of open source software package repositories have been found to contain malware, making it clear that all installation and update pathways for software and library code must have security […].

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CTOvision

JUNE 24, 2015

I know my PC pretty well and I didn’t have any crappy malware accidentally installed. Apparently the issue is that someone added the non-open source component for Google Now to the open source code for Chromium. and looked for a process to blame on that dodgy activity. Who is listening to me?

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 6, 2019

These open-source bootloaders are not household names, but many products they support are: Android devices, ARM-based Chromebooks, Amazon Kindle devices, Lenovo and Asus computers, Apple Airports, Asus routers, Linksys Wi-Fi routers, and LG and Samsung TVs. . RCS delivers new texting features—and old security vulnerabilities.

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Infinidat

APRIL 17, 2025

Based on Index Engines CyberSense and jointly extended, our award-winning InfiniSafe Cyber Detection provides our enterprise customers with the assurance that their primary data is free from cyber anomalies caused by malware and ransomware attacks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Meanwhile, Carly writes that Google Drive is in the spotlight after it was found that Russian hackers are using the software to hide malware. I’ll try not to freak out at change : Roblox is rolling out an update of what it calls “materials” to make them more lifelike, Taylor writes.

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