Categories: News Tags: Discord Tags: privacy Tags: username Tags: discriminator Tags: DM Tags: bot Tags: chat Tags: change Tags: changing Tags: server Tags: hijack phish Tags: private We take a look at the reaction to Discord’s proposed changes to how usernames work, and why many users aren’t happy with the upcoming alterations. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: AI Tags: bot Tags: tool Tags: scrape Tags: scraper Tags: website. image Tags: images Tags: art Tags: artist Tags: consent A tool that’s harvesting pictures to train image-generating AIs has caused some measure of chaos among webmasters who’d rather their sites were not scraped. |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:34:19 +0000
It’s reported that Ukrainian security services have shut down a bot farm that was spreading disinformation.
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Credit to Author: Luca Nagy| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:00:10 +0000
In this Sophos101 report, we’ll give you the lowdown on what you need to know about this, unfortunately, widely disseminated malware.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/QbQ2o1iJn68″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:59:17 +0000
By SophosLabs Research Emotet is a botnet in its own right, one so prolific and dominant that the United States CERT, the body tasked with tracking cyberthreats to the country, named Emotet in July, 2018 “among the most costly and destructive malware” to affect governments, enterprises and organizations large and small, and individual computer users. […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/A9JdHdI4I94″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:33 +0000
By SophosLabs Research The Emotet family could not do what it does without receiving a constant stream of instructions from its owners, or in the absence of the detailed level of feedback about its operating environment each bot sends home from an infected host machine. It also uses huge numbers of compromised websites that belong […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/tuvtIYBP4JI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: hajnalkakope| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:57:54 +0000
By SophosLabs Research Emotet’s arrival is usually preceded by a deceptive spam email, which has a malicious attachment. Opening the attachment starts a process which can lead to an Emotet infection. The Emotet application is an evolved binary, in the sense that it has gone through thousands of iterations over its existence. Its presence as […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/CfniXxu0bac” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:56:43 +0000
By SophosLabs Research The Emotet malware family is in a constant state of evolution and change. From day to day or week to week, the malware’s creators and distributors take an active role in changing up the killchain – the sequence of events that begins with a victim receiving a malicious file attachment, and ends […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/C8Iq5Z7cCTc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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