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ChatGPT for Offensive Security: Five Attacks

| | AI, AI chatbot, attackers, ChatGPT, complex code, CyberArk, Cybernews, Cybersecurity, debugging, GPT-3 framework, human-like responses, LOLBin, Macros, Malware, Natural Language Processing, new business ventures, NLP, Phishing, Security Concepts, security technologies, Security Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) combined with the GPT-3 framework to provide human-like responses. NLP allows the model to… ...
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Cybercriminals Leverage File-Based Attacks to Infiltrate Critical Networks

| | cybercriminals, file-based attacks, Macros, Malware, Microsoft vulnerabilities, office
According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, office docs and emails continue to be proven ways that cybercriminals deliver harmful payloads to gain access into organizations’ networks. Threat actors can conceal ...
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Threat Actors Circumvent Microsoft Efforts to Block Macros

| | Macros, Malware, Microsoft, Office macros, Proofpoint
Microsoft’s announcement that it would block macros in Microsoft Office apps by default didn’t stop threat actors—they have simply resorted to new tricks. “Threat actors across the landscape responded by shifting away ...
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Hackers Using APTs To Exploit Covid-19 Fears

| | APTs, coronavirus, COVID-19, Macros, malicious LNK files, RTF exploit, spear-phishing, template injection
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre recently released a rare joint statement warning of the rise of APT groups using ...
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Ryuk: Cult Character to Ransomware Villain

| | Emotet, Macros, Malware, Ransomware, Ryuk, TrickBot, Windows
If a fan of anime or manga is asked their thoughts on Ryuk, a long discussion about the character popularized in Death Note will undoubtedly follow. Ask someone in the InfoSec community ...
Security Boulevard
Patch Tuesday, November 2019 Edition

Patch Tuesday, November 2019 Edition

| | adobe, CVE-2019-1429, CVE-2019-1457, Internet Explorer zero-day, Macros, Microsoft, Office for Mac, Time to Patch, Windows 7 end-of-life
Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and in software that runs on top of ...
Krebs on Security
Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros

Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros

| | archive, excel, macos, Macros
It’s been almost 25 years since macro malware first reared its head, and it would be nice to think that the defences Microsoft has built into its Office suite in the years ...
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Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365

Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365

| | controls, cybercrime, Exploits, flash, Macros, Microsoft, office, shockwave, silverlight
If you make use of Flash or Silverlight in your day-to-day activities, you may need to have a word with IT. For everyone else, your Office 365 experience is about to become ...
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Malware analysis: decoding Emotet, part 1

Malware analysis: decoding Emotet, part 1

| | code variation, Emotet, Macros, Malware, Malware Analysis, Threat analysis, vba code
In the first part of this two-part analysis of Emotet, we look at the VBA code, where you'll learn how to recognize and discard "dead" code thrown in to complicate the analysis ...
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