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How threat actors can use generative artificial intelligence?

Security Affairs

Deepfakes are media content—such as videos, images, or audio—created using GAI to realistically manipulate faces, voices, or even entire events. For example, these campaigns leverage fake social media accounts to post questions and comments about divisive internal issues in the U.S.

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New S1deload Malware Hijacking Users' Social Media Accounts and Mining Cryptocurrency

The Hacker News

Bitdefender is calling the malware S1deload Stealer for its use of DLL side-loading techniques to get past security defenses and execute its malicious components. Once infected, S1deload Stealer steals

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Blister malware using code signing certificates to evade anti malware detection

CyberSecurity Insiders

As some hackers have developed a malware that uses code signing certificates to avoid detection by security defenses and has the tendency to download payloads onto a compromised system. So, all those accessing such websites on office devices, better be aware of this cyber threat before it is too late.

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BrandPost: Protecting Children from Online Cybersecurity Risks

CSO Magazine

Even outside their virtual classrooms, children often remain online, whether it be streaming television shows, playing video games, or browsing through social media. As a result, young children have become an especially vulnerable target for cybercriminal, due to their lack of knowledge of cybercriminals and their tactics.

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Zix tricks: Phishing campaign creates false illusion that emails are safe

SC Magazine

And these vendors and partners often cannot tell when their own employees are compromised and used to send phishing or invoice fraud attacks,” said Roman Tobe, cybersecurity strategist at Abnormal Security, in an interview with SC Media.

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When AIs Start Hacking

Schneier on Security

The inherent ambiguity in most other systems ends up being a near-term security defense against AI hacking. AI text generation bots, for example, will be replicated in the millions across social media. This is why most of the current examples of goal and reward hacking come from simulated environments.

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USB drives are primary vector for destructive threats to industrial facilities

Security Affairs

Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX) , a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed to protect industrial facilities from USB-borne threats. That high-potency threats were at all prevalent on USB drives bound for industrial control facility use is the first concern.

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