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Leveraging user-generated social media content with text-mining examples

IBM Big Data Hub

With nearly 5 billion users worldwide—more than 60% of the global population —social media platforms have become a vast source of data that businesses can leverage for improved customer satisfaction, better marketing strategies and faster overall business growth. What is text mining? How does text mining work?

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Group-IB: The Shadow Market Is Flooded with Cheap Mining Software

Security Affairs

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime

Krebs on Security

On June 6, 2021, Conti underling “ Begemot ” pitched Stern on a scheme to rip off a bunch of people mining virtual currencies, by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a cryptocurrency mining pool. Find a place where crypto holders communicate (discord, etc. ). Most likely it will be IPv6.

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FBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat

Krebs on Security

The joint FBI/CISA alert (PDF) says the vishing gang also compiles dossiers on employees at the specific companies using mass scraping of public profiles on social media platforms, recruiter and marketing tools, publicly available background check services, and open-source research.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

BHProxies sells access to “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for their Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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UiPath takes the wraps of new LLMs in AI Summit 

Info Source

The new LLMs, DocPATH and CommPATH, give businesses LLMs that are extensively trained for their specific tasks, document processing and communications. In addition, it allows for more accurate document extraction, with a 45% to 76% error rate reduction compared to market leading generative AI models.

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Archivists and Records Managers, part 13

The Schedule

He encouraged information management professionals to consider additional uses of records beyond their typical administrative, fiscal, and legal uses, including: marketing and communications. data mining. employee training and education. strengthening corporate identity. documenting mission and history.