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Norton 360 Cryptominer, Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters, Facebook Account Deactivation

Security Boulevard

Norton 360, a popular antivirus product, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers, some cities in Texas have been hit with a phishing scam designed to get users to pay through fraudulent QR code stickers on public parking meters, and how Facebook is still collecting data about you even if you deactivate […].

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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Story of the year: the impact of AI on cybersecurity

SecureList

Besides controversy surrounding the potential use of deepfakes and image generation tech, such as Stable Diffusion, in disinformation campaigns and non-consensual pornography , they, for example, were used in various scams , such as the famous cryptoscam featuring the fake video of Elon Musk. Since the debut of GPT-3.5

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

While these solutions (such as [Microsoft365]) offer a level of protection and capabilities (antivirus, anti-spam, archiving, etc.), Consider implementing strong endpoint protection ( antivirus , EDR , or XDR ) as one of many layers of defense against ransomware and other attacks.