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Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

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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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AndroxGhost – the python malware exploiting your AWS keys

Lacework

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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Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

Palo Alto Networks

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). Diagram of Kubernetes cluster (source: Kubernetes).

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Tenable

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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Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

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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. Google has released Gemma 3 , the latest in its Gemma series of open models.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

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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Radar Trends to Watch: February 2025

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Skys performance is similar to OpenAI o1-preview, and its fully open: Training data, weights, code, and infrastructure are all open source. The primary advantage of Titans is its ability to scale to very large context windows. 4M is an open source framework for training multimodal AI models. 32B-Instruct.