Introduction UNC3944 is a financially motivated threat group that carries significant overlap with public reporting of “0ktapus,” “Octo Tempest,” “Scatter Swine,” and “Scattered Spider,” and has been observed adapting its tactics to include data theft from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to attacker-owned cloud storage objects (using cloud synchronization tools), persistence mechanisms against virtualization platforms, and lateral […]

As AI continues to change the way we work, security professionals are thinking about how to apply generative AI to help them in their jobs, and how to safeguard the AI systems their organizations are beginning to use. They’re also envisioning new ways to use threat intelligence, sharpen their risk assessments, and increase visibility into […]

Organizations today have access to a wealth of data, including customer information, financial records, operational logs, and more, which they aim to leverage for building new generative AI solutions. However, they face a number of challenges:  Building and training LLMs requires significant technical expertise and computational resources. Teams usually need to use many different frameworks […]

We recently announced a suite of LangChain packages for the Google Cloud database portfolio. Each package will have up to three LangChain integrations:  Vector stores to enable semantic search for our databases that support vectors Document loaders for loading and saving documents to/from your database Chat Message Memory to enable chains to recall previous conversations […]

Editor’s note: Lightricks builds innovative photo and video creation apps based on the latest computer vision and AI technology, enabling content creators and brands to produce engaging, top-performing, and scalable content. When its powerful video editor, Videoleap, needed enhanced search functionality, Lightricks leveraged the pgvector extension in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, which improved its search […]

Written by: Kristen Dennesen, Luke McNamara, Dmitrij Lenz, Adam Weidemann, Aline Bueno   Individuals and organizations in Brazil face a unique cyber threat landscape because it is a complex interplay of global and local threats, posing significant risks to individuals, organizations, and critical sectors of Brazilian society. Many of the cyber espionage threat actors that […]

Google Cloud and Oracle announced an exciting new strategic cloud partnership today that enables customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads seamlessly across Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It provides a rich set of interoperable solutions that make it easy for our joint customers to migrate, modernize, and manage their Oracle-based applications […]