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More than 77,000 computers in Vietnam have suffered data encryption since December 2022, according to Bkav – a leading Vietnamese technology corporation that specialises in cyber security and software.

Using only ChatGPT prompts, a Forcepoint researcher convinced the AI to create malware for finding and exfiltrating specific documents, despite its directive to refuse malicious requests.

The conversational chatbot can help you write any piece of code and it does not really know whether your intentions with the code are good or bad.

Researchers at Check Point used ChatGPT and Codex used standard English instructions to create code that can be used to launch spear phishing attacks

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have identified over 47,000 malicious WordPress plugins, the vast majority of which continue to be in use today.

/PRNewswire/ -- Phylum, The Software Supply Chain Security Company, announces the release of its free Phylum Community Edition to expand the standard in supply...

The malware packages had names that were common typosquats of a legitimate widely used Python library. One was downloaded hundreds of times.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Phylum announces $15 million in Series A funding. The round is led by ClearSky, with contributions from Atlassian Ventures, SixThirty...

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