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

eSecurity Planet

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have been used by cybercriminals to create convincing spoofing emails, resulting in a dramatic rise in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. They found a tool called WormGPT “through a prominent online forum that’s often associated with cybercrime,” Kelley wrote in a blog post.

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Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency

Adam Levin

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and 750,000 active users, announced that hackers had breached their systems. .

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Deployable architecture on IBM Cloud: Simplifying system deployment

IBM Big Data Hub

There are several key characteristics of a deployable architecture, which include: Automation : Deployable architecture often relies on automation tools and processes to manage deployment process. This can involve using tools like continuous integration or continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, configuration management tools and others.

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Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in its Own Software

Krebs on Security

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. In a July 4 blog post , DIVD’s Victor Gevers wrote that Kaseya was “very cooperative,” and “asked the right questions.”

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BatLoader campaign impersonates ChatGPT and Midjourney to deliver Redline Stealer

Security Affairs

In February 2023, eSentire reported another BatLoader campaign targeting users searching for AI tools. Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” ” concludes the report.

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‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

Krebs on Security

” CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. Last month’s bundle of joy from Microsoft sent my Windows 10 system into a perpetual crash state. Thankfully, I was able to restore from a recent backup.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS. Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer. According to a statement by the U.S.

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