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Credit to Author: Selena Larson| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000

After scammers duped a friend with a hacked Twitter account and a “deal” on a MacBook, I enlisted the help of a fellow threat researcher to trace the criminals’ offline identities.

Security Wired

July 26, 2023 admin

ChatGPT Has a Plug-In Problem

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Third-party plug-ins boost ChatGPT’s capabilities. But security researchers say they add an extra layer of risk.

Independent Krebs

July 26, 2023 admin

Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:29:40 +0000

The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions.

ComputerWorld Independent

July 26, 2023 admin

Was Steve Jobs right about this?

Perhaps Steve Jobs was right to limit the amount of time he let his children use iPhones and iPads — a tradition Apple maintains with its Screen Time tool, which lets parents set limits on device use. Now, an extensive UNESCO report suggests that letting kids spend too much time on these devices can be bad for them.

Baked in inequality and lack of social skills

That’s the headline claim, but there’s a lot more to the report in terms of exploring data privacy, misuse of tech, and failed digital transformation experiments.

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Security Sophos

July 26, 2023 admin

Into the tank with Nitrogen

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:00:04 +0000

The element originally known as “foul air” stinks up computers as a new initial-access campaign exhibiting some uncommon techniques

Independent Krebs

July 25, 2023 admin

Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:20:55 +0000

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort, which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online.

MalwareBytes Security

July 25, 2023 admin