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

Latest Microsoft Patch -How Important is it?

The Microsoft Security Response Center just released the following Microsoft Mitigates Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Microsoft has developed a script to see if you are already infected by hackers:  https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/CVE-2023-23397/ The script can run on Exchange server or on Azure based mailboxes(AzureEnvironmentName, AzureADEndpoint, EWSOnlineURL, and EWSOnlineScope can be left as default). This is a … 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