AI CYBER THREATS RATTLE WALL STREET AHEAD OF EARNINGS
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned of escalating AI-driven cyber threats as major banks prepare to report quarterly earnings. The warnings have prompted concern among financial sector executives about potential vulnerabilities.
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a mandate requiring all federal agencies to patch an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler appliances by Saturday.
A new Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service attacks and root-level privilege escalation.
The FBI has dismantled proxy tools used by Chinese hackers in a widespread campaign against NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, and the Justice Department. The operation marks a significant coordinated response to months of intrusions into critical US infrastructure.
Snowflake is phasing out password authentication for legacy service accounts, requiring organizations to adopt passwordless methods. The real challenge: identifying which accounts exist, who manages them, and what access they hold.