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Clop exploited Oracle zero-day for data theft since early August

The Clop ransomware gang has been exploiting a critical Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) zero-day bug in data theft attacks since at least early August, according to cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Tracked as CVE-2025-61882 and patched by Oracle over the weekend, this vulnerability was discovered in the BI Publisher Integration component of Oracle EBS's Concurrent Processing component, allowing unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution on unpatched systems in low-complexity attack

Oracle patches EBS zero-day exploited in Clop data theft attacks

Oracle is warning about a critical E-Business Suite zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-61882 that allows attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution, with the flaw actively exploited in Clop data theft attacks. The flaw is within the Oracle Concurrent Processing product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: BI Publisher Integration) and has a CVSS base score of 9.8, due to its lack of authentication and ease of exploitation. "This Security Alert addresses vulnerability

Oracle links Clop extortion attacks to July 2025 vulnerabilities

Oracle has linked an ongoing extortion campaign claimed by the Clop ransomware gang to E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerabilities that were patched in July 2025. While the company has yet to attribute the attack to this ransomware operation, Rob Duhart, the Chief Security Officer of Oracle, confirmed that customers had received extortion emails from the gang. Duhart also urged Oracle customers to update their software and advised those requiring further assistance to contact the Oracle support tea

Clop extortion emails claim theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data

Mandiant and Google are tracking a new extortion campaign where executives at multiple companies received emails claiming that sensitive data was stolen from their Oracle E-Business Suite systems According to Genevieve Stark, Head of Cybercrime and Information Operations Intelligence Analysis at GTIG, the campaign began in late September. "This activity began on or before September 29, 2025, but Mandiant's experts are still in the early stages of multiple investigations, and have not yet subst

Encyclopedia Britannica Wants Perplexity to Stop Using Its Logos When AI Makes Stuff Up

Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines the verb plagiarize as "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source." And that's exactly what its parent company, Encyclopedia Britannica, is alleging the AI company Perplexity did with its AI answers engine, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. AI companies like Perplexity are no strangers to copyright infringeme

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their definitions

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI web search company Perplexity is being hit by another lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. Britannica, the centuries-old publisher that owns Merriam-Webster, sued Perplexity in New

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang). The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully answer vs questions that are at a level of detail where the lossiness matters. This thought sparked by a comment on Hacker News asking why an LLM couldn't "Create a boilerplate Zephyr project sk