Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
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What happened
The Register security feed covers major cyber threats and security developments, including an npm supply-chain worm affecting 444 packages, large-scale data breaches and extortion incidents, ransomware, exposed credentials and cloud keys, actively exploited Microsoft vulnerabilities, AI-assisted attacks, critical-infrastructure targeting, hardware side channels, malicious SIM capabilities, DDoS campaigns, and insecure operational technology. The most immediately consequential items involve supply-chain compromise, active exploitation, ransomware, and attacks against critical infrastructure.
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