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Apple Launches Private Cloud Compute for Privacy-Centric AI Processing

Apple Launches Private Cloud Compute for Privacy-Centric AI Processing

Apple has announced the launch of a “groundbreaking cloud intelligence system” called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that’s designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud. The tech giant described PCC as the “most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale.” PCC coincides with the arrival of new

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LightSpy Spyware’s macOS Variant Found with Advanced Surveillance Capabilities

LightSpy Spyware’s macOS Variant Found with Advanced Surveillance Capabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the LightSpy spyware recently identified as targeting Apple iOS users is in fact a previously undocumented macOS variant of the implant. The findings come from both Huntress Labs and ThreatFabric, which separately analyzed the artifacts associated with the cross-platform malware framework that likely possesses capabilities to infect Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and

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AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform

AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. “We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces’ secrets could have been accessed without authorization,” it said in an advisory. Spaces offers a way for users to create, host, and share AI and machine learning (ML) applications. It also

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RedTail Crypto-Mining Malware Exploiting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Vulnerability

RedTail Crypto-Mining Malware Exploiting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Vulnerability

The threat actors behind the RedTail cryptocurrency mining malware have added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Palo Alto Networks firewalls to its exploit arsenal. The addition of the PAN-OS vulnerability to its toolkit has been complemented by updates to the malware, which now incorporates new anti-analysis techniques, according to findings from web infrastructure and security company

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