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A phishing campaign dubbed ‘Phish n’ Ships’ has been underway since at least 2019, infecting over a thousand legitimate online stores to promote fake product listings for hard-to-find items.

Unsuspecting users clicking on those products are redirected to a network of hundreds of fake web stores that steal their personal details and money without shipping anything.

According to HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team that discovered Phish n’ Ships, the campaign has impacted hundreds of thousands of consumers, causing estimated losses of tens of millions of dollars.

Companies must adapt their security postures to keep pace with the rapid innovation of technologies affecting operational security. — by Chuck Brooks / Brooks Consulting International.

OpenAI claims cyber threats are easier to detect when attackers use ChatGPT.

Media Advisory: Cybersecurity & Emerging Tech Expert and Georgetown professor Chuck Brooks Media Availability.

By Chuck Brooks, Skytop Contributor / October 25, 2024

Chuck Brooks serves as President and Consultant of Brooks Consulting International. Chuck also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in the Cyber Risk Management Program, where he teaches graduate courses on risk management, homeland security, and cybersecurity.

Chuck has received numerous global accolades for his work and promotion of cybersecurity. Recently, he was named the top cybersecurity expert to follow on social media, and also as one top cybersecurity leaders for 2024. He has also been named “Cybersecurity Person of the Year” by Cyber Express, Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year, and a “Top 5 Tech Person to Follow” by LinkedIn” where he has 120,000 followers on his profile.

As a thought leader, blogger, and event speaker, he has briefed the G20 on energy cybersecurity, The US Embassy to the Holy See, and the Vatican on global cybersecurity cooperation. He has served on two National Academy of Science Advisory groups, including one on digitalizing the USAF, and another on securing BioTech. He has also addressed USTRANSCOM on cybersecurity and serves on an industry/government Working group for DHS CISA focused on security space systems.

SEC charges four companies for misleading disclosures regarding the SolarWinds cyberattack, imposing fines totaling $6 million.

Hackers made off with the info of 31 million users.

A huge data breach followed by a plummeting valuation has stoked fears of a sale of 23andMe along with all of its customers’ genetic data.

When I was a kid we had the anarchist cookbook.

But an artist and hacker found a way to trick ChatGPT to ignore its own guidelines and ethical responsibilities to produce instructions for making powerful explosives.

The hacker, who goes by Amadon, called his findings a “social engineering hack to completely break all the guardrails around ChatGPT’s output.” An explosives expert who reviewed the chatbot’s output told TechCrunch that the resulting instructions could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.

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