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ChatGPT continues to lead the news cycle and increase in popularity, with new applications and uses seemingly uncovered each day for this innovative platform. However, as interesting as this solution is, and as many efficiencies as it is already providing to modern businesses, it’s not without its risks.

Netskope Threat Labs publishes a monthly summary blog post of the top threats we are tracking on the Netskope platform. The purpose of this post is to provide strategic, actionable intelligence on active threats against enterprise users worldwide.

Anonymous Sudan is a rapidly expanding and influential group of hacktivists that identify themselves as Sudanese, motivated by both religious and political beliefs. Since January 2023, they have been carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, allegedly motivated by defending Islam against Western nations. These attacks have disrupted critical infrastructure and various global sectors, including finance and healthcare.

Allegheny County is the second largest county in Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia County. It is located in Southwest Pennsylvania and has approximately 1.2 million residents. This large county was the recent victim of a data breach, which means many of the county residents could be at risk of being exposed. Learn the details about this potentially disastrous data loss and who should react to the attack to protect themselves from future issues.

Spring Security’s newly released versions contain a fix for a broken access control vulnerability – CVE-2023-34034 – which was given a critical NVD severity (CVSS 9.8) and a high severity by Spring’s maintainers.

Imperium Markets has completed Australia’s first atomic settlement, or the instantaneous swapping of an asset for payment, with the eAUD – issued as central bank digital currency by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Utilizing Fireblocks’ battle-tested tokenization technology, Imperium Markets’ pilot saw two major banks – Westpac and Commonwealth Bank – successfully issue and invest in certificates of deposit.

Today’s discussions on AI are often affected by emotions like fear and awe, as well as the fact that AI is reduced to large language models (LLM) — but this isn’t the entire story. So, let’s step back from these fears and dig into the data explaining why AI is richer than LLMs.

s cyber threats evolve and business models change, maintaining a mature cybersecurity program can be challenging. You need to be confident that your organization’s current security tools and techniques are effective. A single error or postponement in resolving a software problem can create weaknesses in your IT infrastructure, increasing the likelihood of cyber attacks.

As we go about our daily lives, whether that be shopping with the family, enjoying dinner at a restaurant, finding our gate at the airport, or even watching TV, we find ourselves more and more often encountering the QR code.

Here’s an existential question: is technology always the answer? Or are there other ways to solve our biggest problems?