In Review: What GPT-3 Taught ChatGPT in a Year

Credit to Author: Vincenzo Ciancaglini| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Amidst the uproar and opinions since November 2022, we look at the possibilities and implications of what OpenAI’s ChatGPT presents to the cybersecurity industry using a comparison to earlier products, like its predecessor GPT-3.

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Hijacking Your Bandwidth: How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this investigation, we analyzed several prominent “passive income” applications and found out that there may be security risks upon participating in these programs.

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Threat Actors Target AWS EC2 Workloads to Steal Credentials

Credit to Author: Nitesh Surana| Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We found malicious samples attempting to steal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Workloads’ access keys and tokens via typosquatting and the abuse of legitimate tools.

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Security Breaks: TeamTNT’s DockerHub Credentials Leak

Credit to Author: Nitesh Surana| Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of our honeypots based on exposed Docker REST APIs showed cybercriminal group TeamTNT’s potential attack scenario and leak of container registry credentials for docker-abuse malware. The full version of this research will be presented at the c0c0n XV Hacking and Cyber Security Conference in September 2022.

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Analyzing the Hidden Danger of Environment Variables for Keeping Secrets

Credit to Author: David Fiser| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

While DevOps practitioners use environment variables to regularly keep secrets in applications, these could be conveniently abused by cybercriminals for their malicious activities, as our analysis shows.

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Iron Tiger Compromises Chat Application Mimi, Targets Windows, Mac, and Linux Users

Credit to Author: Daniel Lunghi| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We found APT group Iron Tiger’s malware compromising chat application Mimi’s servers in a supply chain attack.

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CopperStealer Distributes Malicious Chromium-based Browser Extension to Steal Cryptocurrencies

Credit to Author: Jaromir Horejsi| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We tracked the latest deployment of the group behind CopperStealer, this time stealing cryptocurrencies and users’ wallet account information via a malicious Chromium-based browser extension.

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Facebook’s Metaverse is Expanding the Attack Surface

Credit to Author: William Malik| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Understand the cybersecurity risks in the Metaverse

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Private 5G Network Security Expectations Part 2

Credit to Author: Jun Morimoto| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The importance of proof of “security” concepts in private 5G networks: Are verifications of system operations and new functions sufficient for your proof of concept in private wireless networks?

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