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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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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. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Ransomware Groups Look for Inside Help

eSecurity Planet

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. Evolving Ransomware Scene. There were 304.7

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Zero Trust Can’t Protect Everything. Here’s What You Need to Watch.

eSecurity Planet

Zero trust architecture is an emerging technology in cybersecurity that offers an alternative to the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security. ” Zero trust is a critical tool in the security defense arsenal, especially as more companies shift to a fully remote or hybrid work environment.

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HackerGPT 2.0 Unveils New AI Cyber Defense Strategies

eSecurity Planet

HackerGPT, first launched in 2023, is a ChatGPT-powered tool that merges AI technology with cybersecurity-focused expertise. in February 2024, it serves as an extensive repository of hacking tools and techniques to actively assist users in managing complex cybersecurity protection strategies. Launch of HackerGPT 2.0

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Improve your AWS security posture, Step 3: Encrypt AWS data in transit and at rest

CyberSecurity Insiders

This can occur due to data leakage through faulty apps or systems, by laptops or portable storage devices being lost, by malicious actors breaking through security defenses, by social engineering attacks, or by data being intercepted in man-in-the-middle attacks. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog series.

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Zix tricks: Phishing campaign creates false illusion that emails are safe

SC Magazine

And these vendors and partners often cannot tell when their own employees are compromised and used to send phishing or invoice fraud attacks,” said Roman Tobe, cybersecurity strategist at Abnormal Security, in an interview with SC Media. “The targeted company works with thousands of third-party vendors and supplychain partners.

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