US Most Impacted by Data Breaches in the Financial Industry in 2022
The financial sector ranked second across all industries for data breaches in 2022, according to Flashpoint’s 2022 Financial Threat Landscape, published on December 20, 2022. The US was the most impacted country, followed by Argentina, Brazil and China. Approximately 57% of these breaches targeting financial institutions worldwide have been attributed to ‘general hacking.’ In comparison, about 6.5% were […]
PyTorch discloses malicious dependency chain compromise over holidays
PyTorch has identified a malicious dependency with the same name as the framework’s ‘torchtriton’ library. This has led to a successful compromise via the dependency confusion attack vector. PyTorch admins are warning users who installed PyTorch-nightly over the holidays to uninstall the framework and the counterfeit ‘torchtriton’ dependency. From computer vision to natural language processing, the open source machine learning framework PyTorch has […]