New Sextortion Scheme Using Deepfakes

Sextortion is a form of blackmail where malicious actors threaten to publicly leak explicit images and videos of their targets. This scheme is resulting in millions of dollars in losses and normally involves the threat actor coercing or stealing the digital materials...

Hunter Valley Bus Tragedy Scams Spotted

Early this week, there was a tragic bus accident in NSW’s Hunter Valley region. A bus, which was returning from a local wedding, overturned, killing 10 people and injuring a further 14. Following the accident, scammers wasted no time in targeting unsuspecting...

Using ChatGPT to Solve Secure Programming Challenges

Hamza from Security Dimension recently ran an experiment to determine if ChatGPT is up to the challenge of tackling security vulnerabilities in code. He tried to get solve a secure programming challenge in Cross Site Scripting in both Python and JavaScript. His...

Gmail Flaw Gives Phishing Emails the Blue Tick

Last month Gmail introduced a blue checkmark icon next to senders that they deem are legitimate. This is part of an email authentication program called Brand Indicators for Message Identification (or BIMI for short). It aims to protect email users from brand spoofing...
Google Chrome Zero Day Actively Being Exploited

Google Chrome Zero Day Actively Being Exploited

There’s a new Google Chrome Zero-Day vulnerability that’s actively being exploited in the wild. It’s CVE-2023-3079 and which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code to take complete control of the system remotely. The fix is in version...