Mandiant recently issued its M-Trends 2026 Report, a must read for all cybersecurity professionals. The report provides several conclusions and insights, including that both nation states and run of the mill financially motivated threat actors are “integrating AI to accelerate the attack lifecycle.” These threat actors are “increasingly relying on large language models (LLMs) as
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AI Powered Bot Targeted 400,000 Websites
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne estimates that over 400,000 websites have been targeted, and the bot has successfully spammed “at least 80,000 websites since September 2024.”
The bot generated…
CISOs: New Report Outlines Risks of LLMs
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
I hang out with a lot of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), so this piece is for them. Of course, it will be of interest to all security professionals struggling with assessing the risk of large language models (LLMs).
According to DarkReading, Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML) recently issued a report entitled “An Architectural…