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Hackers are selling a service that bypasses ChatGPT restrictions on malware

Getty Images | Carol Yepes reader comments 32 with 0 posters participating Share this story Hackers have devised a way to bypass ChatGPT’s restrictions and are using it to sell services that allow people to create malware and phishing emails, researchers said on Wednesday. ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions… Read More: Hackers are selling a service that bypasses ChatGPT restrictions on… »

Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software

Getty Images reader comments 84 with 0 posters participating Share this story Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of queries. “Threat researchers are used to seeing a moderate flow of malvertising… Read More: Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download… »

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

Getty Images reader comments 26 with 0 posters participating Share this story Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays, planning parties, and learning about new topics. Now we can add malware development and the pursuit of… Read More: ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware »

Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign malware

Getty Images reader comments 19 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has once again been caught allowing its legitimate digital certificates to sign malware in the wild, a lapse that allows the malicious files to pass strict security checks designed to prevent them from running on the Windows operating system. Multiple threat actors… Read More: Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign… »

Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

reader comments 65 with 0 posters participating Share this story Mayors’ offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky and the Izvestia news service. Kaspersky researchers have named the wiper… Read More: Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’… »

Feds say Ukrainian man running malware service amassed 50M unique credentials

Getty Images | Charles O’Rear reader comments 19 with 17 posters participating Share this story Federal prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old Ukrainian national with operating a malware service that was responsible for stealing sensitive data from more than 2 million individuals around the world. Prosecutors in Texas said on Tuesday that Mark Sokolovsky, 26, of… Read More: Feds say Ukrainian man running malware service amassed 50M unique… »

Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices

reader comments 29 with 26 posters participating Share this story Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise servers. Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security firm Lumen, is calling the malware Chaos,… Read More: Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices »

Trojanized versions of PuTTY utility being used to spread backdoor

reader comments 40 with 28 posters participating Share this story Researchers believe hackers with connections to the North Korean government have been pushing a Trojanized version of the PuTTY networking utility in an attempt to backdoor the network of organizations they want to spy on. Researchers from security firm Mandiant said on Thursday that at… Read More: Trojanized versions of PuTTY utility being used to spread backdoor »

New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities

reader comments 12 with 11 posters participating Share this story Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that’s notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection… Read More: New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite… »

Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to bypass

Getty Images / Aurich Lawson reader comments 48 with 44 posters participating Share this story Last year, organizations spent $2 billion on products that provide Endpoint Detection and Response, a relatively new type of security protection for detecting and blocking malware targeting network-connected devices. EDRs, as they’re commonly called, represent a newer approach to malware… Read More: Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to… »