Researchers from software supply chain security firm Rezilion have investigated the security posture of the 50 most popular generative AI projects on GitHub. They found that the more popular and newer a generative AI open-source project is, the less mature its security is. Rezilion used the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Scorecard to...

Even though ransomware has existed for decades, this ever-evolving threat continues to be extremely effective, and it’s not going away anytime soon. According to data from our latest Fortinet 2023 Global Ransomware Report, two-thirds of organizations were targeted by ransomware and 50% of them fell victim to an attack. And data from our FortiGuard...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has roiled the cybersecurity industry by putting executives of SolarWind on notice that it may pursue legal action for violations of federal law in connection with their response to the 2020 attack on the company's infrastructure that affected thousands of customers in government agencies and companies...

Application security posture management (ASPM) company Bionic has added two new capabilities — Bionic Signals and Bionic Business Risk Scoring — to its namesake cybersecurity platform to help its customers detect, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities and threats in their applications.The idea is to collate signals from multiple threat intelligence...

An ongoing malware campaign has been pushing the Android banking trojan, Anatsa, to online banking customers in the US, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, according to research by cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric.The threat actors are distributing their malware via the Play Store, and already had over 30,000 installations as of March. The...

Cloud data security company Fortanix has announced Fortanix Confidential Data Search, a search offering for encrypted databases within enterprise cloud workflows.“Confidential Data Search allows data analysts to use off-the-shelf, unmodified databases in a standard, unrestricted SQL environment,” said Richard Searle, vice president of Confidential...