OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. “This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that were generating content for […]
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Microsoft has shared a workaround for a known issue affecting Microsoft 365 customers and causing classic Outlook to crash after opening or when starting up in Safe mode. […]
Microsoft warned Entra global admins on Thursday to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their tenants until October 15 to ensure users don’t lose access to admin portals. […]
Background check service National Public Data confirms that hackers breached its systems after threat actors leaked a stolen database with millions of social security numbers and other sensitive personal information. […]
CISA warned on Thursday that attackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in SolarWinds’ Web Help Desk solution for customer support. […]
A large-scale extortion campaign has compromised various organizations by taking advantage of publicly accessible environment variable files (.env) that contain credentials associated with cloud and social media applications. “Multiple security missteps were present in the course of this campaign, including the following: Exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and absence
Originally published by Scrut Automation.Regulatory Maze is Turning Everyone into a Lost Tourist The growing complexity of regulatory requirements has led to fragmentation in compliance programs across organizations of all sizes. Efforts to develop and enforce consolidated compliance programs still lack coordination and standardization, further deepening the security and compliance gaps ripe for exploitation and […]
A 27-year-old Russian national has been sentenced to over three years in prison for peddling financial information, login credentials, and other personally identifying information (PII) on a now-defunct dark web marketplace called Slilpp. Georgy Kavzharadze, 27, of Moscow, Russia, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud earlier this […]
A common yet overlooked type of weak password are keyboard walk patterns. Learn more from Specops Software on finding and blocking keyboard walk passwords in your organization. […]
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a sophisticated information stealer campaign that impersonates legitimate brands to distribute malware like DanaBot and StealC. The activity cluster, orchestrated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals and collectively codenamed Tusk, is said to encompass several sub-campaigns, leveraging the reputation of the platforms to trick users into downloading the