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Iran-Aligned Militias Signal Expanded Regional Risk Amid US–Israel–Iran Conflict

Across multiple theaters, Iran-aligned groups are using similar language, emphasizing shared objectives, and in some cases pointing to an expanded target set that reaches beyond their traditional operating areas. Taken together, this ...
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Protecting the Big Game: A Threat Assessment for Super Bowl LX

This threat assessment analyzes potential physical and cyber threats to Super Bowl LIX. The post Protecting the Big Game: A Threat Assessment for Super Bowl LX appeared first on Flashpoint ...

Prompt Injection Through Poetry

In a new paper, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models,” researchers found that turning LLM prompts into poetry resulted in jailbreaking the models: Abstract: We present ...

Remotely Exploding Pagers

Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain ...
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Russian Threat Groups Turn Eyes to the Paris Olympic Games

Russian threat groups are using old tactics and generative AI to run malicious disinformation campaigns meant to discredit the Paris Olympic Games, France and its president, and the IOC -- less than ...
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US Sanctions Three for Cyber Work for ISIS

The United States is hitting two Egyptian nationals with sanctions for allegedly creating and maintaining a platform used to train members of the ISIS terrorist group in cybersecurity and to support its ...
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Are Internet Providers 'Aiding and Abetting' Crimes?

Are Internet Providers ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Crimes?

The internet was on tenterhooks over the question of whether the U.S. Supreme Court would find that online providers like Google, Facebook and others could continue to enjoy protection under the Communications ...
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Terror Groups Silent after US Strike Kills al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri

Terror Groups Silent after US Strike Kills al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri

On August 1, 2022, US President Joe Biden announced that he authorized a drone strike to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda and former deputy to Usama bin Laden, in Kabul, ...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2022

Today is the second day of the fifteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Ross Anderson and Alice Hutchings at the University of Cambridge. After two years of having this ...