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Review: Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld

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Review: Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld 16/11/2023 at 08:31 By Helga Labus Written and directed by Kilian Lieb and Max Rainer, Cyberbunker is a Netflix documentary about a group of hackers that enabled the proliferation of dark web forums where illegal materials were bought and sold. Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld The documentary begins with a special […]

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Infostealers and the high value of stolen data

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Infostealers and the high value of stolen data 13/11/2023 at 08:35 By Help Net Security The risk of personal and professional data being stolen by nefarious actors looms larger than ever, according to Trend Micro. Understanding the risks associated with data theft, which include identity theft, financial loss, reputational harm, and the potential misuse of

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Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin

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Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin 02/10/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security FraudGPT is the evil counterpart to ChatGPT. Criminals use it to target businesses with phishing emails and scams with speed and accuracy like never before. The AI can be prompted to create the most realistic phishing emails, perfected down to a business’

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Why California’s Delete Act matters for the whole country

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Why California’s Delete Act matters for the whole country 29/09/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security The California State Legislature passed Senate Bill 362, known as the Delete Act, to simplify the process for consumers to ask to remove their personal data gathered by data brokers. In this Help Net Security video, Dr. Chris Pierson,

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Tor-Based Drug Marketplace Piilopuoti Shut Down by Law Enforcement

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Tor-Based Drug Marketplace Piilopuoti Shut Down by Law Enforcement 20/09/2023 at 18:46 By Ionut Arghire Finnish authorities have seized the drugs marketplace Piilopuoti, which has been operating on the Tor network since May 2022. The post Tor-Based Drug Marketplace Piilopuoti Shut Down by Law Enforcement appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Enterprises persist with outdated authentication strategies

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Enterprises persist with outdated authentication strategies 15/09/2023 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Despite authentication being a cornerstone of cybersecurity, risk mitigation strategies remain outdated, according to new research from Enzoic. With the attack surface expanding and the increasing sophistication of cyber threats, organizations are struggling to deliver secure and user-friendly authentication. The research uncovered

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11 search engines for cybersecurity research you can use right now

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11 search engines for cybersecurity research you can use right now 29/08/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security Staying ahead in cybersecurity requires constant learning and adaptation. If you’re interested in cybersecurity research, explore the resources outlined below. DNSdumpster DNSdumpster is a free domain research tool that can discover hosts related to a domain. Finding

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Dark web activity targeting the financial sector

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Dark web activity targeting the financial sector 08/08/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jim Simpson, Director of Threat Intelligence at Searchlight Cyber, discusses threats against the financial sector. Threat actors will invariably target banks, yet by keeping an eye on the dark web, these institutions can identify illegal

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Compromised ChatGPT accounts garner rapid dark web popularity

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Compromised ChatGPT accounts garner rapid dark web popularity 21/06/2023 at 09:06 By Help Net Security Compromised credentials were found within the logs of info-stealing malware traded on illicit dark web marketplaces over the past year, according to Group-IB. The number of available logs containing compromised ChatGPT accounts reached a peak of 26,802 in May 2023.

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Surveilling your employees? You could be putting your company at risk of attack

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Surveilling your employees? You could be putting your company at risk of attack 05/06/2023 at 08:13 By Help Net Security Are you watching your employees? Though the question may incite thoughts of “Big Brother” and an all-seeing or all-knowing entity, it isn’t quite as ominous as you might think. Employee productivity surveillance technology, or EPST,

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Generative AI: The new attack vector for trust and safety

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Generative AI: The new attack vector for trust and safety 30/05/2023 at 06:46 By Help Net Security Threat actors are abusing generative AI to carry out child sex abuse material (CSAM), disinformation, fraud and extremism, according to ActiveFence. “The explosion of generative AI has far-reaching implications for all corners of the internet,” said Noam Schwartz,

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12 vulnerabilities newly associated with ransomware

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12 vulnerabilities newly associated with ransomware 25/05/2023 at 06:04 By Help Net Security In March 2023, the total number of breaches reported was higher than those reported in the previous three years combined, according to Ivanti. Ransomware groups are continuously weaponizing vulnerabilities and adding them to their arsenal to mount crippling and disruptive attacks on

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DarkBERT could help automate dark web mining for cyber threat intelligence

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DarkBERT could help automate dark web mining for cyber threat intelligence 19/05/2023 at 13:05 By Helga Labus Researchers have developed DarkBERT, a language model pretrained on dark web data, to help cybersecurity pros extract cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from the Internet’s virtual underbelly. DarkBERT pretraining process and evaluated use case scenarios (Source: KAIST/S2W) DarkBERT: A

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Google notifies users about dark web exposure

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Google notifies users about dark web exposure 11/05/2023 at 15:46 By Helga Labus Google has announced new tools, features and updates to improve users’ online safety, help them evaluate content found online, and alert them if their Gmail identity appears on the dark web. New tools and options for users A new tool called About

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56,000+ cloud-based apps at risk of malware exfiltration

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56,000+ cloud-based apps at risk of malware exfiltration 10/05/2023 at 06:30 By Help Net Security The technology sector had the highest number of malware-infected employees, most exposed corporate credentials and the majority of all stolen cookies, according to SpyCloud. Drawing on SpyCloud’s database of 400+ billion recaptured assets from the criminal underground, researchers analyzed 2.27

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