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ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware’s Prevalence

Tech Republic Security

ESET's latest report highlights the abuse of the ChatGPT name, the rise of the Lumma Stealer malware and the Android SpinOk SDK spyware.

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Kaspersky: SparkCat malware is a nightmare for crypto owners

Dataconomy

Kaspersky researchers have identified a malware campaign, dubbed SparkCat, distributing malicious applications on both Android and iOS platforms since March 2024. This malware employs optical character recognition (OCR) to scan photo libraries for cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases.

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Google Safe Browsing gives more details to compromised website owners

Network World

On the back-end, Google uses robots to scan the web and build a list of websites that host malware, harmful downloads, or deceptive ads and pages. Software developers can then plug into an API to integrate this list into their own applications. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

The fenced forensic environment provides a safe location to provide forensic analysis of backup datasets to identify a copy of the data that is free from malware or ransomware and can be safely restored – this copy is often referred to by storage and backup administrators as “a known good copy.”. Set up a fenced forensic environment.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. There were countless types of attacks, from accidentally downloading malware to a webpage that exploited a browser bug and more. Within a ZTNA 2.0

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5 challenges for securing the future

CIO Business Intelligence

Cyber hygiene includes, but is not limited to, good password practices, robust vulnerability patching processes, timely detection, prevention, and remediation , putting protections in place to prevent and block malware, and ensuring robust access protocols. Modern software development has been likened to making a cake.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

A model trained on, say, an archive of flat earth conspiracy theories will be bad at answering science questions, or a model fine-tuned by North Korean hackers might be bad at correctly identifying malware. They’re also full of inaccurate and biased information, malware, and other materials that can degrade the quality of output.