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International law enforcement agencies, working alongside CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation, have dismantled Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that has been running since two thousand three. The operation used a clever poisoning strategy to divert infected machines into sinkholes, cutting off malware delivery to more than fifteen thousand victims worldwide.
Shifting to a security story with a different kind of urgency, a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory is already being actively exploited, just days after the vendor issued a patch. Rated nine point eight out of ten in severity, the flaw affects a tool widely used to manage software packages and AI model artifacts, and researchers say they cannot yet confirm whether the attackers are human or automated agents.
And Anthropic is making a bold privacy promise to enterprise customers, offering zero data retention for users of its new Fable models under a program called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards. The catch is notable though, customers themselves are responsible for verifying the policy is actually being applied, which raises real questions about what a promise is worth when the burden of proof falls on the buyer.
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