More Pig Butchering or “Sha Zhu Pan”

Cybernews.com has a story on another incidence of Pig Butchering… As some youtube personalities with Chinese knowledge mentioned pig butchering refers to raising a pig to be ultimately butchered.  So one plays the long game, where one befriends an opposite sex person with carefully cultivated stories. As the person slowly trusts the scam which initially … Read more

Has ChatGPT Already Crossed the Red Line?

OpenAI has breathlessly released the latest version (4.0) a few days ago.  This version has plugins which will allow the program to connect with other programs to sort or otherwise use the other programs as per analyticsindiamag.com  Including Expedia, Wolfram, Zapier, Speak, Fiscal Note, kayak, Instacart, Opentable, Klarna Shopping, Shop, Milo family AI, Retrieval, and … Read more

Twitter Site Claims to Know Ransomware Targets

Someone set up a twitter bot that knows which companies get ransomware(it claims):   For example I picked out  Wyckoff Heating and Cooling(2023 – 3-11), Maximum Industries Inc(2023 – 3-13), and Management Excellence(2023 – 3-11). I am always on the lookout for Threat research possibilities (finding out what the adversary is doing). In all 3 … Read more

Will Attackers Use AI to Attack Us?

Short answer to this question is Yes!  Bruce Schneier(a fellow at the Berkman center for Internet and Society at Harvard University) said this in his paper of April 2021: The Coming of AI Hackers “One, AI systems will be used to hack us. And two, AI systems will themselves become hackers: finding vulnerabilities in all … Read more