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Uncover the nastiest malware of 2023

Webroot

This post covers highlights of our analysis, including the rise of ransomware as a service (RaaS), the six nastiest malware groups, and the role of artificial intelligence in both cybersecurity and cyberthreats. As always, it covers the trends, malware groups, and tips for how to protect yourself and your organization.

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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

eSecurity Planet

When remote workers connect bring-your-own-device (BYOD) laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones to corporate assets, risk dramatically increases. Browser isolation prevents BYOD risk with a containerized application that acts as a VDI operating on the BYOD device to limit file transfers and access.

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Is Cisco’s Acquisition of Splunk a Shade of Brilliance or Madness?

Security Boulevard

In cybersecurity, Cisco invested early in IPS, Firewall, VPN, and endpoint security; they produced exceptional results. A significant component of this is the emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning to become embedded across every aspect of the enterprise, service provider, and government systems.

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Swatting-as-a-Service is a growing and complicated problem to solve

Malwarebytes

Using the anonymity provided by Telegram , caller ID spoofing, and voices generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), a person or group of persons calling themselves Torswats is suspected to be behind dozens, if not hundreds of swatting incidents. Privacy risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Don’t Let the ‘I Quit’ Economy Slow Down Your Enterprise

Security Boulevard

With a growing backlog of “remove access” requests, organizations are exposed to outside threats until these accounts, often privileged, cloud, or VPN accounts, are disabled. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to a more automated IAM universe. Australia, and Canada.

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Jailbreaking ChatGPT and other large language models while we can

Malwarebytes

The base of the design is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can be be spoken to with natural language on a large variety of topics. Privacy risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep your online privacy yours by using Malwarebytes Privacy VPN.

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Security in 2020: Revisited

Schneier on Security

Employees already have their laptops configured just the way they like them, and they don't want another one just for getting through the corporate VPN. I should have explicitly called out the risks of that. They're already reading their mail on their BlackBerrys or iPads. But that causes a massive centralization of all of our data.