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Classiscam Scam-as-a-Service Raked $64.5 Million During the COVID-19 Pandemic The Classiscam program has earned criminal actors $64.5 million in illicit earnings since its inception in 2019, according to Trend Micro. The company’s research shows that the criminal actors make use of sophisticated techniques such as adding a balance check, completed by the victim, to the…

It’s a Zero-day? It’s Malware? No! It’s Username and Password Silverfort introduces Silverfort Unified Identity Protection, a solution that offers enhanced security for AD environments against the misuse of compromised credentials. The company explains that obtaining compromised credentials has never been easier and that attackers use a variety of techniques to obtain them. However, malicious…

New SuperBear Trojan Emerges in Targeted Phishing Attack on South Korean Activists A new phishing attack likely targeting civil society groups in South Korea has led to the discovery of a novel remote access trojan called SuperBear. This includes the Autoit3.exe binary and an AutoIt script that’s launched using the former. The Auto It script,…

Russian State-Backed ‘Infamous Chisel’ Android Malware Targets Ukrainian Military The U.S. and several foreign intelligence agencies have released details of a new mobile malware strain targeted at Android devices used by the Ukrainian military. The group called Gamaredon has been active since at least 2014 and is best known for its string of disruptive and…

Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft SQL Servers to Deploy FreeWorld Ransomware Threat actors are exploiting poorly secured Microsoft SQL servers to deliver Cobalt Strike ransomware and a ransomware strain called FreeWorld. The ransomware payload of choice appears to be a newer variant of Mimic ransomware called Freeworld. The attack initially succeeded as a result of a…

Okta Warns of Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Super Administrator Privileges The Okta Identity Services Provider warns of Social Engineering Attacks Enrages social engineering actors to obtain administrator privileges from the company’s Super Administrator accounts. They then use these privileges to institute users within the compromised organization. The threat actor also uses the access granted to…

It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets criticizing US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. CounterCloud responds with similar responses. Paw says the project shows that widely available generative AI tools make it much easier to create…

Nervous About ChatGPT? Try ChatGPT With a Hammer The goal of this paper is to explore the power of machine learning and to predict the future using its own reasoning and deterministic explanations of its actions. The author speculates that a tool-using artificial intelligence could someday be able to perform tasks that humans cannot perform,…

Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI Aleph Alpha has raised $27 million to date, and expects to raise more money in the coming weeks. Skeptics question whether the company can really compete in the same league as Google and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT launched the current boom in generative AI.But many in the European Union…

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient Abbott believes that machine-learning inventions should be protected under the copyrights law to incentivize people to use AI for social good.” He does not, however, believe that this is an infringement on the rights of the human inventor.…