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LLMs and Phishing

Schneier on Security

But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. ” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes. “all promotion methods allowed”).

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Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks

Security Affairs

This trend aimed at reducing threats from banking Trojans for PCs has been continuing in Russia since 2012. GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.