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Scam Robocalls Forecast to Cost $58bn This Year
PRIVACY PRIVACY Juniper Research says most of the pain will be felt in the US Read More
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7 guidelines for identifying and mitigating AI-enabled phishing campaigns
PRIVACY PRIVACY The emergence of effective natural language processing tools such as ChatGPT means it’s time to begin understanding how to harden against AI-enabled cyberattacks. The natural language generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) are a natural fit for one of cybercrime’s most important attack vectors: phishing. Phishing relies on fooling people and the…
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Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”
PRIVACY PRIVACY The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for…
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Species of Vampire Squid Lives 3,000 Feet below Sea Level
PRIVACY PRIVACY At least, it seems to be a new species. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Read More
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Telegram, WhatsApp Trojanized to Target Cryptocurrency Wallets
PRIVACY PRIVACY Most of these apps rely on clipper malware to steal the contents of the Android clipboard Read More
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Google Exposes 18 Zero-Day Flaws in Samsung Exynos Chips
PRIVACY PRIVACY Four of these vulnerabilities enabled potential attackers to perform remote code execution Read More
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Pro-Russian Winter Vivern APT Targets Governments and Telecom Firm
PRIVACY PRIVACY SentinelOne shared details about the new campaign in an advisory published on Thursday Read More
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Free decryptor released for Conti-based ransomware following data leak
PRIVACY PRIVACY Security researchers have released a new decryption tool which should come to the rescue of some victims of a modified version of the Conti ransomware, helping them to recover their encrypted data for free. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Read More
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Android phones can be hacked just by someone knowing your phone number
PRIVACY PRIVACY Well, this isn’t good. Google has issued a warning that some Android phones can be hacked remotely, without the intended victim having to click on anything. Read More
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ICO Reprimands Metropolitan Police for Data Snafu
PRIVACY PRIVACY Negligence could have caused “significant damage” Read More