TECH NEWS

German authorities lead takedown of Kratos phishing platform

Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain

German authorities say they have neutralized the main infrastructure supporting the Kratos phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit following an operation supported by the US and Indonesia.

Officers from Frankfurt am Main's Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) described Kratos as one of the most widespread and dangerous PhaaS kits on the market.

In Indonesia, authorities said they arrested the Kratos kit's alleged "developer and technical administrator." The announcement of Kratos's takedown did not mention whether any other individuals are being pursued.

According to the ZIT and BKA, Kratos allowed low-skill cybercrims to harvest credentials, including passwords and session cookies, to bypass MFA by providing them with convincing Microsoft-themed phishing pages.

Criminals using Kratos phishing pages targeted hundreds of thousands of victims across more than...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to theregister.com. To see the full text click HERE

https://media.wired.com/photos/6a5ff5b0f95e7d91469f8f3d/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/security_openai_hack_huggingface.jpg

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform HuggingFace. Describing the incident as “unprecedented,” OpenAI said its AI models broke out of a sealed testing environment last week and hacked into

https://images.ctfassets.net/jdtwqhzvc2n1/3bn3yoTePyZbPJPJj0uEdC/401a5cb3161eb2cd6ae5d9b4ce0020ed/Nuneybits_Vector_art_of_minimalist_lines_clean_villas_overlooki_8da15709-c192-4383-b807-87...

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XrpFgcngWrtXQscKdLLAZB-1920-80.jpg

NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #871)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday'

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4XP9iNbdvkijJyZnzx3WoL-1920-80.jpg

Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #1640)

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's

Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

Read more

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #871)

Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #1640)