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A critical security flaw has been disclosed in LangChain Core that could be exploited by an attacker to steal sensitive secrets and even influence large language model (LLM) responses through prompt injection. LangChain Core (i.e., langchain-core) is a core Python package that’s part of the LangChain ecosystem, providing the core interfaces and model-agnostic abstractions for…

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an “influence-as-a-service” operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity security flaw impacting TP-Link TL-WA855RE Wi-Fi Ranger Extender products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-24363 (CVSS score: 8.8), concerns a case of missing authentication that could be abused to obtain

Google has announced a new feature in its Chrome browser that lets its built-in Password Manager automatically change a user’s password when it detects the credentials to be compromised. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically,” Google’s Ashima Arora, Chirag…

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