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ESET just uncovered PromptLock, the first known ransomware that leverages generative AI in its delivery mechanism. The malware doesn’t use AI to encrypt files—but it does use ChatGPT to create convincing social engineering lures... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Cephalus Ransomware: Abusing Trust to Slip Past Defenses Another clever trick from threat actors. The latest ransomware strain, Cephalus, is abusing a legitimate SentinelOne file to sideload malicious DLLs—essentially hijacking trust to bypass... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

The state of Nevada is recovering from a confirmed ransomware attack this week. The ransomware was deemed sophisticated and has impacted services and systems throughout the state. Data exfiltration was confirmed, and to the state government... For more real-techsupport.com/words-of-wisdom

Quantum Machine Learning Just Designed a Semiconductor. Here's Why That Matters. What happened: Researchers used quantum machine learning (QML) to create a working semiconductor alloy—cadmium manganese telluride—without traditional trial-and-error More real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Micron just dropped a major play in the AI infrastructure game: 232-layer QLC NAND SSDs—touted as the world’s first purpose-built QLC SSDs for data centers. On paper? It’s a breakthrough in density and performance. But in context? For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

New data breach study reveals just how dangerous unstructured file exposure has become. A forensic analysis of 141 million files spanning 1,297 breach incidents found sensitive unstructured data everywhere—including financial statements.... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Hackers just breached an intelligence portal connected to the CIA and other U.S. agencies. The Acquisition Research Center, an unclassified system managed by the National Reconnaissance Office, was compromised. It’s used to submit contract... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Plex just issued a serious security warning. If you're running Plex Media Server, check your version now. Versions 1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x contain a critical vulnerability. The fix is available — version 1.42.1.10060. What’s weird? For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Two telecom hits, same lesson: our infrastructure is still too easy to break What happened at Colt Colt Technology Services was hit by a cyberattack that knocked out multiple customer-facing systems for days, including hosting and porting.... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

St. Paul Cyberattack: The Breach Everyone Saw Coming, and the Transparency That Never Arrived. What started as an unexplained digital outage in the City of St. Paul has now been confirmed: this was a cyberattack, linked to the Interlock ransom.. For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

TEA App Breach Deepens: Second Database Leak Exposes User Chats Another broken promise of privacy. Following the recent exposure of user profile data from the TEA dating app, a second unsecured database has now leaked private user messages... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Lovense App Flaw Leaks Private User Emails — A Case Study in Digital Exposure and Broken Trust A recent vulnerability in the Lovense Remote app exposed users’ email addresses simply by sending a direct link to their public user profiles.... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

450+ U.S. Organizations Hit: Royal & BlackSuit Ransomware Tactics Show the Playbook Is Evolving — But the Targets Aren’t. Royal and BlackSuit ransomware operations have compromised over 450 U.S. organizations across healthcare, manufacturing,... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

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Oh man...just had to get this post in as well. Another day, another AI coding tool turned into an attack vector. Security researchers have disclosed a flaw in the Gemini CLI AI coding assistant that allowed stealthy code execution on developer... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Amazon’s AI coding agent — designed to help developers write and manage code — was recently manipulated to inject data-wiping commands into its output. Instead of generating useful guidance, it suggested commands capable of erasing entire systems. For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdo…

Preserving the Past to Protect the Future The Internet Archive — long the unofficial memory of the internet — is now an official US Federal Depository Library. This isn’t just a ceremonial nod to history; it’s a recognition that data preservat... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdom

Another Day, Another “Unforeseeable” Breach Now it’s the US Nuclear Agency in the headlines, courtesy of Chinese-linked hackers who slipped into sensitive systems. Shocking, right? I mean, who could have possibly predicted that a nation-state... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdo…

Dell Breach: From Test Lab to Extortion Playbook Dell has confirmed that the World Leaks extortion group compromised one of its test lab environments — and now claims to be holding stolen corporate data for ransom. While Dell says there’s no.... For more real-cyber.com/words-of-wisdo…

When Zero-Day Chaos Meets Strategic Security Reboot Mid-July 2025: Microsoft slams the brakes on business-as-usual, issuing an emergency patch for SharePoint to fix CVE-2025-53770—a flaw already under active attack. The vulnerability?.... For more real-techsolutions2.axionthemes.com/words-of-wisdo…