Entry № 001 · ● Attacks & Threats
Phishing
A social-engineering attack in which an attacker impersonates a trusted party to trick a victim into revealing credentials, transferring money, or running malware.
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Entry № 001 · ● Attacks & Threats
A social-engineering attack in which an attacker impersonates a trusted party to trick a victim into revealing credentials, transferring money, or running malware.
Read the full entryA security flaw that is unknown to the vendor (or for which no patch yet exists) at the moment it is discovered or exploited.
Malware that encrypts a victim's data or locks systems and demands payment in exchange for restoring access.
An attack that overrides an LLM's original instructions by smuggling adversarial text into the prompt, causing the model to ignore safeguards or execute attacker-chosen actions.
A platform that aggregates, normalizes and correlates security telemetry from across the enterprise to enable detection, investigation, compliance and reporting.
A network architecture that never trusts users, devices, or services by default and enforces continuous, identity-aware verification of every connection.
A critical December 2021 remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 that allowed attackers to run arbitrary code by logging a single JNDI lookup string.
Synthetic audio, image, or video media generated by AI to convincingly depict a real person saying or doing something they did not.