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Deceptive AI content and 2024 elections – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
As the specter of AI-generated disinformation looms large, tech giants vow to crack down on fabricated content that could sway voters and disrupt elections taking place around the world this year
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Vulnerabilities in business VPNs under the spotlight
As adversaries increasingly set their sights on vulnerable enterprise VPN software to infiltrate corporate networks, concerns mount about VPNs themselves being a source of cyber risk
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PSYOP campaigns targeting Ukraine – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Coming in two waves, the campaign sought to demoralize Ukrainians and Ukrainian speakers abroad with disinformation messages about war-related subjects
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Cyber-insurance and vulnerability scanning – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Here’s how the results of vulnerability scans factor into decisions on cyber-insurance and how human intelligence comes into play in the assessment of such digital signals
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All eyes on AI | Unlocked 403: A cybersecurity podcast
Artificial intelligence is on everybody’s lips these days, but there are also many misconceptions about what AI actually is and isn’t. We unpack the basics and examine AI’s broader implications.
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Ransomware payments hit a record high in 2023 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Called a “watershed year for ransomware”, 2023 marked a reversal from the decline in ransomware payments observed in the previous year
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Grandoreiro banking malware disrupted – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
The banking trojan, which targeted mostly Brazil, Mexico and Spain, blocked the victim’s screen, logged keystrokes, simulated mouse and keyboard activity and displayed fake pop-up windows
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ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora
An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes
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ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan
ESET provided technical analysis, statistical information, known C&C servers and was able to get a glimpse of the victimology
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Blackwood hijacks software updates to deploy NSPX30 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
The previously unknown threat actor used the implant to target Chinese and Japanese companies, as well as individuals in China, Japan, and the UK