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2024: AI-assisted cyberattacks on the rise
2024: AI-assisted cyberattacks on the rise

Trend Micro's 2024 cybersecurity predictions warn of the transformative role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the cyber threat landscape, as well as a new wave of sophisticated social engineering tactics and identity theft using AI-powered tools . The widespread availability and improved quality of generative AI combined with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate realistic photo, audio and video content will have a lasting impact on the phishing landscape in 2024. Trend Micro predicts a new wave of Business Email Compromise (BEC ), virtual kidnapping and other scams – triggered by the cost-effective…

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ChatGPT: Chatbot has many trust issues
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

ChatGPT has a trust issue, according to a survey by Malwarebytes. 81 percent of respondents familiar with ChatGPT believe ChatGPT could pose a potential security risk to themselves or their organization. As for the hype itself, despite the massive media coverage and waves ChatGPT has made online, only 35 percent agreed with the statement “I am familiar with ChatGPT”. Additionally, only ten percent of respondents who were at all familiar with ChatGPT could fully agree with the statement “I trust the information provided by ChatGPT”. However:…

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AI-based cybersecurity with Charlotte
AI-based cybersecurity with Charlotte

Charlotte AI is a new generative cybersecurity analytics AI designed to help anyone using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform efficiently. With Charlotte AI, customers can address many of the critical challenges facing the security industry, such as closing skill gaps and accelerating response time to stay ahead of attackers. Charlotte AI uses the world's most reliable security data, which is continuously improved through a human feedback loop. The generative, AI-based solution allows customers to ask their questions in natural language and receive immediate answers from the CrowdStrike Falcon platform...

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ChatGPT Experiment: Who Spots Phishing Better?
ChatGPT Experiment: Who Spots Phishing Better?

Are the jobs of security experts safe for now or are AIs such as ChatGPT replacing the experts? Kaspersky did an experiment and used ChatGPT to detect phishing links. The result: more than sobering. Fortunately, experts and their expertise will remain in cybersecurity for a long time to come. Just because a forester knows everything about trees and wood. he is far from being a good carpenter. That's how it is with the AI ​​ChatGPT. Although she knows almost everything about phishing, she cannot really process the individual pieces of information. In…

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Zero Trust: Advanced User Intelligence
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

A Zero Trust Data Security company presents its Advanced User Intelligence. The new functions support companies in proactively fending off cyber attacks. With the introduction of user intelligence, Rubrik creates cyber resilience for data and users for its customers. This allows organizations to take preemptive action to stop attacks before they cause significant damage. Data is vulnerable to cyber incidents and as attack methods evolve, the user has become a lucrative target for cybercriminals. According to Rubrik Zero Labs’ recent report, The State of Data Security,…

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NIS2 compliance
NIS2 compliance

In 2017, Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that the global cost of damage from ransomware will reach $2021 billion by 20, which is also the current estimate for 2022 - and at 57 times the financial damage of 2015. The global security market is currently having one Valued at around US$150 billion, which is projected to rise to US$208 billion by the end of the year and US$400 billion in 2026, according to current forecasts. Data also shows that EU companies spend, on average, 41 percent less on cybersecurity than US companies. State of…

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With AI and ChatGPT algorithm - hunt down cybercriminals
With AI and ChatGPT algorithm - hunt down cybercriminals

The further development of neural networks, AI and machine learning is becoming a real "game changer". The chatbot ChatGPT is currently making this more than clear. Sophos AI uses the advanced GPT technology to realize even better security applications. As the scale increases, neural networks get better and better. The basis for the program is the GPT-3.5 language processing model, which also comes from OpenAI. At supercomputing scale and in conjunction with machine learning, Sophos AI uses this advanced technology to realize even better security applications. Because especially in the area of ​​cyber security, the enormous performance stands out in contrast to…

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ChatGPT: AI-designed malicious emails and code
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Check Point's security research department warns of hackers who could use OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex to launch targeted and efficient cyberattacks. The intelligence can create phishing emails and generates dangerous VBA code for Excel files. In experimental correspondence, Check Point Research (CPR) tested whether the ChatBot could be used to create malicious code to initiate cyber attacks. ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a free-to-use AI chatbot that can provide its users with contextual answers based on data found on the internet. Codex, on the other hand, is an OpenAI…

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Sophos X-Ops combines Labs, SecOps and AI
Sophos X-Ops brings together SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI

Concentrated threat intelligence: Sophos announces Sophos X-Ops. Sophos X-Ops combines SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI under one roof. Combination of three established Sophos cybersecurity expert teams helps companies to protect themselves even more effectively against cyber attacks. Sophos announces Sophos X-Ops, a new cross-functional unit of SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI. The three established cybersecurity expert teams are being combined so that companies can be defended even more effectively against constantly changing and increasingly complex cyberattacks. Sophos X-Ops brings together the predictive, real-world, and deeply researched threat intelligence of all teams to collectively create stronger and more innovative protection, detection, and...

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