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A new Linux malware downloader created using SHC has been spotted in the wild, infecting systems with Monero cryptocurrency miners and DDoS IRC bots. According to ASEC researchers, who discovered the attack, the SHC loader was uploaded to VirusTotal by Korean users, with attacks generally focused on Linux systems in the same country.
San Francisco legislators this week changed course on their killer robot policy, banning the police from using remote-control bots fitted with explosives. "This fight isn't over, but we are grateful that the board explicitly banned police robots with deadly force," San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston said in a statement following Tuesday's decision to send the policy back to the drawing board.
A computer program known as a "Bot" acts as an agent for a user or another program or mimics human action. Bots are typically used to automate particular tasks so they can be used without specific human instructions.
OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT bot is making waves when it comes to all the amazing things it can do-from writing music to coding to generating vulnerability exploits, and what not. Yesterday, BleepingComputer ran a piece listing 10 coolest things you can do with ChatGPT. And, that doesn't even begin to cover all use cases like having the AI compose music for you [1, 2]. Within six days of its launch, ChatGPT surpassed a million users to the extent its servers couldn't keep up.
From precisely spotting security vulnerabilities in your code, to writing an essay or an entire block of functional code on a whim, to opening portals to another dimension, OpenAI's newly launched ChatGPT is a game changer with its possibilities seeming limited only by your limitedness. Last week, OpenAI research labs unveiled ChatGPT, a chat bot that works from within your web browser-akin to the ones you've seen on websites offering customer support chat.
A LockBit 3.0 ransomware affiliate is using phishing emails that install the Amadey Bot to take control of a device and encrypt devices. The Amadey Bot malware is an old strain capable of performing system reconnaissance, data exfiltration, and payload loading.
The Amadey malware is being used to deploy LockBit 3.0 ransomware on compromised systems, researchers have warned. The document contains a malicious VBA macro that, when enabled by the victim, runs a PowerShell command to download and run Amadey.
According to Gcore, in 2022, the number and volume of DDoS attacks will roughly double compared to 2021. Rew, which business sectors are being attacked more often than others in 2022?
He likens prompt injection attacks to SQL injection, which can deliver sensitive information to an attacker if they input malicious code into a field that doesn't sanitize data. Days after Willison's blog post, Twitter users attacked a GPT-3 bot designed to help run remote jobs called Remoteli.io, tricking it into doing things like taking responsibility for the Challenge space shuttle disaster, threatening Twitter users or proposing an overthrow of the Biden administration if it doesn't support remote work.
How can you protect your APIs from bots and bot attacks? Keep reading to learn effective ways for API bot detection and protection. Why is the risk of bot cyberattacks on APIs so high and common? 40% of organizations reported that more than half of their applications are exposed to third-party services or the internet owing to APIs.