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GUEST ESSAY: Advanced tools are ready to help SMBs defend Microsoft 365, Google Workspace

The Last Watchdog

Throughout 2022, we saw hackers become far more sophisticated with their email-based cyber attacks. Related: Deploying human sensors Additionally, with tools like ChatGPT, almost anyone can create new malware and become a threat actor. This is a harmful misconception.

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ChatGPT: A Brave New World for Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Released on November 30, ChatGPT has instantly become a viral online sensation. Unlike most other AI research projects, ChatGPT has captivated the interest of ordinary people who do not have PhDs in data science. He tweeted: “We are not far from dangerously strong AI.” The answers are often succinct.

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How AI is Advancing Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

There’s a never ending cycle between the measures cybersecurity providers introduce to prevent or remediate cyber threats and the tactics cyber criminals use to get around these security measures. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a critical tool cybersecurity companies leverage to stay ahead of the curve.

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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse

eSecurity Planet

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past.

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Enhanced Network Security with AI Coverage and Human Expertise – Mist

Adapture

Enhanced Network Security with AI Coverage and Human Expertise – Mist Everyday organizations create huge piles of data that are sorted and analyzed by IT staff and systems. Finding anomalies in this data can signal the presence of a cybersecurity threat, such as a hacker. IT departments can struggle to identify threats.

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LLM meets Malware: Starting the Era of Autonomous Threat

Security Affairs

We explored a potential architecture of an autonomous malware threat based on four main steps: an AI-empowered reconnaissances, reasoning and planning phase, and the AI-assisted execution. Malware researchers analyzed the application of Large Language Models (LLM) to malware automation investigating future abuse in autonomous threats.

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Funding for Cybersecurity Startups Plunges – But Some Still Get Deals

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity startups had been pretty resilient despite the downturn in venture capital funding, but that run has ended in recent months. Venture investments in cybersecurity startups in the second quarter plunged 63% to $1.6 billion , according to data from Crunchbase. This time is no different.