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Emerging Threats: Provider of Open Source Threat Intelligence

CTOvision

Emerging Threats - now part of Proofpoint - is a world-leading provider of open source and commercial threat and malware intelligence. Founded in 2003 as a cyber security research community, Emerging Threats has become a de facto standard in network-based malware threat detection.

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The original Barcode Scanner app, seemingly mistaken for malware, is getting review-bombed

The Verge

It’s not quite clear what’s going on here, but the prevailing theory is that the 100 million-download strong app is getting mistaken for another one with the same exact name — one that might have been a clone of ZXing’s app and one that did add malware in a recent update, according to digital security firm MalwareBytes.

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OpenAI, Microsoft Disrupt Nation-State Actors' Malicious Use of AI

SecureWorld News

The company said the identified OpenAI accounts associated with these actors were terminated and that they "generally sought to use OpenAI services for querying open-source information, translating, finding coding errors, and running basic coding tasks."

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Scott Lowe

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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String of fileless malware attacks possibly tied to single hacker group

Network World

Several attacks observed over the past few months that rely heavily on PowerShell, open-source tools, and fileless malware techniques might be the work of a single group of hackers.

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‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system

The Verge

Security teams at companies large and small are scrambling to patch a previously unknown vulnerability called Log4Shell, which has the potential to let hackers compromise millions of devices across the internet. The vulnerability is found in log4j, an open-source logging library used by apps and services across the internet.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

The report also includes actionable insights to help organizations strengthen their security posture and proactively mitigate potential risk. The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals. This pervasive threat is delivered via email attachments, Discord, and OneDrive URLs.

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