1. Confirmed: Cyber-attack Identified as Cause of Microsoft’s Outages in Early June.
July 5, 2023
Microsoft confirms recent service outages on Outlook, Teams, One Drive, and Azure were caused by a DDoS attack.
The attacker, Storm-1359 (also known as Anonymous Sudan), linked to the Russian state, has been active since January.
They use botnets and tools from multiple cloud services for DDoS attacks and data exfiltration attempts. Storm-1359 targets layer 7 of the network stack with HTTP(S) flood, cache bypass, and Slowloris attacks.
Microsoft recommends using Azure WAF with settings like bot protection, custom rules, and geographic traffic restrictions to mitigate such attacks. READ MORE»
2. Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation.
OpenAI has lobbied the European Union (EU) to dilute the world’s most comprehensive AI legislation, the AI Act.
The company’s covert maneuvers have resulted in significant changes to the Act, reducing the regulatory burden on the company.
OpenAI has argued that its general-purpose AI systems, such as GPT-4, should not be considered “high risk” and should therefore be exempt from the Act’s regulations.
The company has also argued that the Act’s transparency, traceability, and human oversight requirements are too burdensome and would stifle innovation.
3. AI ‘Hallucinations’ Can Become an Enterprise Security Nightmare.
Researchers from an Israeli security firm have discovered how hackers could turn a generative AI’s “hallucinations” into a nightmare for an organization’s software supply chain.
The researchers illustrated how one could exploit the AI’s hallucinations to introduce malicious code into the software supply chain.
They predict that as generative AI becomes more popular, it will start receiving developer questions that go to Stack Overflow.
The answers to those questions may refer to packages that are entirely wrong or never existed.
4. Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution.
Amazon has recently introduced a new fully autonomous warehouse robot called Proteus.
The robot can autonomously navigate Amazon’s warehouses and lift GoCarts to move them to the outbound dock.
It uses advanced safety, perception, and navigation technology developed by Amazon to move around employees without being confined to restricted areas. Amazon has deployed more than 1,000 robots in its warehouses. READ MORE»
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