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New AI Threats Emerge as FraudGPT Creator Unleashes DarkBERT and DarkBART

eSecurity Planet

Daniel Kelley, a reformed black hat hacker and researcher at cybersecurity firm SlashNext, posed as a potential buyer and contacted the individual – “CanadianKingpin12” – who’s been promoting FraudGPT. Email Address By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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Black Hat AI Tools Fuel Rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Now security researchers have discovered a black hat generative AI tool called WormGPT that has none of the ethical restrictions of tools like ChatGPT, making it even easier for hackers to craft cyber attacks based on AI tools. Refining phishing or BEC attack emails using generative AI.

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To Fix DMARC Requires Angry Customers

eSecurity Planet

A new Cloudflare phishing report notes that most of the 1 billion brand impersonation emails the company detected “passed” SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols. At the same time, an organization is also quite likely to fall for business email compromise and phishing attacks from their vendors.

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Ransomware Groups Look for Inside Help

eSecurity Planet

According to a report this week by Atlas VPN, the number of ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021 have jumped year-over-year by 151 percent, with the United States being the most targeted country by a wide margin. The numbers in the report come from cybersecurity vendor SonicWall. There were 304.7 This year, 227.3

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GreyNoise Helps Organizations Defend Against Opportunistic Scan-and-Exploit Attacks in Real Time with Investigate 4.0

CyberSecurity Insiders

Vulnerability exploitation used for 34% of security incidents in 2021. a cybersecurity tool that helps security analysts identify and respond to opportunistic “scan-and-exploit” attacks in real time. . The new Trends Attack Visibility graph is included for members of the free GreyNoise community.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. The average business faces more than 700 of these types of attacks every single year. As AI capabilities grow, attackers are applying them to bolster their attack efforts in many ways.