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Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code.

Techniques used in cyber warfare can be sold to anyone — irrespective of borders, authorities, or affiliations. We need to develop strategies to respond at scale.

Categories: Business There are a lot of benefits to ChatGPT, but many in the security community have concerns about it. Malwarebytes' CEO Marcin Kleczynski takes a deep dive into the topic. (Read more...) The post ChatGPT: Cybersecurity friend or foe? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Ruckus Tags: CISA Tags: AndoryuBot Tags: CVE-2023-25717 Tags: 163.123.142.146 CISA has added a Ruckus vulnerability being abused by the AndoryuBot botnet to its catalog. (Read more...) The post Update now! Ruckus vulnerability added to CISA’s list of actively exploited bugs appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

This Tech Tip demonstrates how security engineers can best use rate limits to mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks.

A two-bit comedian is using a patched Microsoft vulnerability to attack the hospitality industry, and really laying it on thick along the way.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign that makes use of a unique attack chain to deliver the XWorm malware on targeted systems. Securonix, which is tracking the activity cluster under the name MEME#4CHAN, said some of the attacks have primarily targeted manufacturing firms and healthcare clinics located in Germany. "The attack campaign has been leveraging rather

The 2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report examines how edge use cases are evolving, how organizations are changing to deliver better business outcomes through digital first experiences, and how an integrated ecosystem can work together to put security at the core of edge computing.

A nascent botnet called Andoryu has been found to exploit a now-patched critical security flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel to break into vulnerable devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-25717 (CVSS score: 9.8), stems from improper handling of HTTP requests, leading to unauthenticated remote code execution and a complete compromise of wireless Access Point (AP) equipment. Andoryu was

By Habiba Rashid Operation PowerOFF is an effort to dismantle DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide, targeting operators engaged in criminal activities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Op PowerOFF: 13 Domains Linked to DDoS-For-Hire Services Seized