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ChatGPT will make hackers more efficient (but it won’t mean cyber doomsday). As well as coming for all of our jobs, everyone’s favourite AI chatbot is going to be a potent weapon for cybercriminals, a US spy chief has warned.  But there is a silver lining here – Rob Joyce, director of the NSA’s Cybersecurity…

In what we believe to be the first cybercrime operation named after a hairy blue Muppet, international law enforcement have seized the notorious Genesis Market.  The dark web marketplace’s website now bears the logos of the FBI along with dozens of other police organisations in Europe and beyond. “Genesis marketplace was an invite-only cybercrime institution…

The future seems to be arriving a little quicker than most people imagined – as Microsoft announced this week that the cybersecurity co-worker of the future will be a robot.  As part of the global frenzy around ChatGPT, Microsoft is to bring the insanely popular chatbot to cybersecurity in the form of Microsoft Security Copilot. …

Zero-days have dropped by a third in one year, according to Mandiant – but don’t break out the bunting quite yet, as it’s still the second-highest year on record.  Our CEO Mark Lamb offered his thoughts to Help Net Security on this year’s crop of zero days, and the TLDR version is patch, patch and…

Another month, another alarming crop of zero day bugs – it can only be Patch Tuesday.  This month brings a bumper harvest of fixes for 74 bugs, including two Zero Day bugs which have already been exploited by cybercriminals.  Our CEO Mark Lamb was recently quoted in Spiceworks, describing it as another “major update” with…

Two core members of the notorious DoppelPaymer ransomware gang whose attacks had netted 40 million Euros (£35m) in the U.S. alone were arrested this week. Our CEO Mark Lamb had a VERY busy week in the wake of the arrests of ‘core members’ of the notorious gang, speaking to HelpNet Security, SecurityWeek, CyberNews, and InfoSecurity…