ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware’s Prevalence
Risk mitigation tips are provided for each of these cybersecurity threats.
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Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Predictions of 2024 and Look Back at 2023
Generative AI can be used by attackers, but security professionals shouldn’t lose sleep over it, according to a Google Cloud threat intelligence analyst. Find out why.
G7 Countries Establish Voluntary AI Code of Conduct
The code of conduct provides guidelines for AI regulation across G7 countries and includes cybersecurity considerations and international standards.
UK’s NCSC Warns Against Cybersecurity Attacks on AI
The National Cyber Security Centre provides details on prompt injection and data poisoning attacks so organizations using machine-learning models can mitigate the risks.
New AI Threats Emerge as FraudGPT Creator Unleashes DarkBERT and DarkBART
New AI-powered cybercrime tools suggest that the capability of AI hacking tools may be evolving rapidly. The creator of FraudGPT, and potentially also WormGPT, is actively developing the next generation of cybercrime chatbots with much more advanced capabilities. Daniel Kelley, a reformed black hat hacker and researcher at cybersecurity firm SlashNext, posed as a potential […]
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AI Will Save Security – And Eliminate Jobs
AI will help us win the cybersecurity arms race – but not without significant costs. We need to prepare now for the inevitable disruptions.
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How Generative AI Will Remake Cybersecurity
In March, Microsoft announced its Security Copilot service. The software giant built the technology on cutting-edge generative AI – such as large language models (LLMs) – that power applications like ChatGPT. In a blog post, Microsoft boasted that the Security Copilot was the “first security product to enable defenders to move at the speed and […]
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BlackMamba PoC Malware Uses AI to Avoid Detection
HYAS researchers recently developed proof-of-concept (PoC) malware that leverages AI both to eliminate the need for command and control (C2) infrastructure and to generate new malware on the fly in order to evade detection algorithms. The malware, dubbed “BlackMamba,” is the latest example of exploits that can evade even the most sophisticated cybersecurity products. While […]
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AI Coding: A Security Problem?
Andrej Karpathy is a former research scientist and founding member of OpenAI. He was also the senior director of AI at Tesla. Lately, he has been using Copilot, which leverages GPT-3 to generate code. He tweeted this about it: “Nice read on reverse engineering of GitHub Copilot. Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding, it’s hard […]
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Cybersecurity Analysts Using ChatGPT for Malicious Code Analysis, Predicting Threats
ChatGPT has raised alarm among cybersecurity researchers for its unnerving ability in composing everything from sophisticated malware to phishing lures – but it’s important to keep in mind that the tool can help support cybersecurity defenses as well. Shiran Grinberg, director of research and cyber operations at Cynet, told eSecurity Planet that too many companies […]
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