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Robert McArdle

@bobmcardle

Director FTR - CyberCrime Research for @TrendMicro. Lecturer in Malware Analysis. Expect post ratio of 2:1 riveting & unmissable cybercrime updates / @StarWars

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One of the most interesting reads today - reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-does-publ….
Survey by Oxford on levels of interest/knowledge of AI tools in the population. Skim the graphs + you get some key takeaways - that might seem a reality check for us inside the AI / Tech industry bubble

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Really worthwhile and positive look at all the things going RIGHT in the world in terms of human advancement ted.com/talks/angus_he… < definitely worth watching the 9 mins it will take. Consider it a nice antidote for the negative stories you find in most news feeds

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Cloud-based GPU systems are a backbone of AI today. So what is the attack surface like for these critical systems? Trend Micro released a report today on their threat landscape, vulnerabilities & protection strategies trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/secur… < Handy Cloud GPU Risk Matrix too :)

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One of the most common questions we get in Trend Micro is 'How are Criminals using AI?'. At David Sancho and Zio Vic presented our update on this topic, which also released online at trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/secur… , following the evolution from our Aug 2023 article.

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LEA Lockbit page is back up again on the previously seized infrastructure.
hXXp://lockbitapt2d73krlbewgv27tquljgxr33xbwwsp6rkyieto7u4ncead[.]onion/page3.php
Tuesday 15:00 IE/UK time will be very interesting :) Who is LockbitSupp? Interesting Facts & Figures? And more!

LEA Lockbit page is back up again on the previously seized infrastructure. hXXp://lockbitapt2d73krlbewgv27tquljgxr33xbwwsp6rkyieto7u4ncead[.]onion/page3.php Tuesday 15:00 IE/UK time will be very interesting :) Who is LockbitSupp? Interesting Facts & Figures? And more!
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Infamous Nation state actor (aka APT28) are leveraging networks of compromised routers as an obfuscation layer for attacks. Trend Micro's Feike Hacquebord + mer0x36 explore the overlaps with criminal infrastructure in today's publication: trendmicro.com/en_us/research…

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Congrats to the Metropolitan Police and their Law Enforcement / Private industry partners in this weeks operation against the Phishing Service provider and its users. Trend Micro are proud at being able to collaborate on this with excellent colleagues trendmicro.com/en_us/research…

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Following the massive disruption of by National Crime Agency (NCA) and their partners, Trend Micro publish on what the lasting impact has been several weeks on - trendmicro.com/en_us/research… < Early signs show that the group have struggled to comeback from the Law Enforcement action

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Love this Ransomware lineage chart. I could look over these sort of things all day long github.com/cert-orangecyb… < Well done CERT Orange Cyberdefense

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Hey folks - if you will be @SXSW definitely recommend checking out Josiahs talk - always one of my favourite people to talk to in Trend Micro

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Since last week we have seen several threat actors exploiting recent ScreenConnect vulns to drop . Worth being aware of the kill chains detailed in this Trend Micro blog by Ian Kenefick, Peter Girnus, and Junestherry Dela Cruz trendmicro.com/en_us/research…

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A Trend Micro publication looking at an in-development version of is now live trendmicro.com/en_us/research… .This was created as part of the collaboration with the game changing National Crime Agency (NCA) lead disruption this week < Good history of the (ongoing) groups troubles too

A @TrendMicro publication looking at an in-development version of #Lockbit #Ransomware is now live trendmicro.com/en_us/research… .This was created as part of the collaboration with the game changing @NCA_UK lead disruption this week < Good history of the (ongoing) groups troubles too
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In a busy week for all things (here's looking at you
disruption), Trend Micro have released one of our in-depth deep dives Spotlight series on Rhysida trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/secur… . You can find our other Ransomware Spotlights on the same page

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Handy App for fast look up browsing, condensing multiple sites using an LLM - theverge.com/2024/1/28/2405… . Also part of the whole idea that traditional apps will be replaced by fewer AI helpers that do most of the work for you, working with API

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/ is one of the most notorious APT groups. Trend Micro (@FeikeHacquebord , mer0x36) + Lord Remorin have published a new research outlining their anonymization layers, hash relay attacks, credential phishing and more trendmicro.com/en_us/research… < Really good read!

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This is a good article worth a read at dispelling a lot of the hype from LLM text focused AI hbr.org/2024/01/is-gen…. You might have read most of this before, but it does a good job of compiling it all in one place. Lots of good uses too of course, but reality checks help

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My colleagues in Trend Micro (Charles Perine, Philippe Lin, Lord Alfred Remorin & Josiah Hagen) + Casey Colando from All Energies have published today on Distributed Energy Generation Gateway (In)Security trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/secur… < GREAT read on future Energy threats for all of us

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Latest in the always excellent series from my colleagues in Trend Micro trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/secur… - everything you need to know about Trigona Ransomware, but as always useful for general knowledge of Ransomware scene also

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What’s doable in terms of using and similar LLM for malware generation? My Trend Micro colleagues vc and Charles Perine look at this in research released today trendmicro.com/en_us/research… < great read!

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