Alexander Culafi is a Cybersecurity Reporter at Dark Reading. He specializes in topics related to cybersecurity, including cybercrime, data breaches, and corporate security, while also exploring the intersection of security and law enforcement. Alexander has been featured in TechTarget, IoT World Today, and Dark Reading.
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Alexander Culafi's coverage mainly focuses on cybersecurity, particularly topics such as ransomware, data breaches, and zero-day flaws. He appears to value expert commentary and relies significantly on government announcements and data citations.
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A tokenizer library file present in Hugging Face AI models can be manipulated to hijack the model's outputs and exfiltrate data.
In the latest evolution of automated cyberattacks, two threat campaigns heavily leveraged AI agents to support attacks against entities in Mexico and Brazil.
Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.
South Korea's local elections next month will be a test bed for how effective regulations might be to stymie the flow of deepfakes.
The release of Shai-Hulud source code spells trouble for software developers as researchers worry the self-replicating worm could scale.
Verizon's "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" ("DBIR") finds that exploits are now involved in 31% of initial access for breaches, while patching lags too far behind the bad guys.
Open source software giant GitHub confirmed a data breach this week involving the theft of thousands of repos. One threat actor — TeamPCP — took credit.
The advanced persistent threat group also relied on SOCKS proxies like SoftEther VPN, tunneling tools that act as a middleman between victim and attacker.
TeamPCP, the hackers behind the Shai-Hulud worm, has done significant damage to the open source ecosystem. But it's not necessarily due to skill alone.
The FBI warned that the extortion gang Silent Ransom Group is targeting law firms and socially engineering its way into servers and databases.
