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A phishing campaign is impersonating cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, Tech.co reports. Crypto trader Jacob Canfield described the campaign in a Twitter thread, stating that the threat actors texted and then called him.

Hackers fall into one of three general categories: white hat hackers, black hat hackers and gray hat hackers. But these aren’t the only types of hackers that exist. There are also red hat hackers, green hat hackers, blue hat hackers and more. Read on to learn more about the types of hackers and what makes them different from one another.

In recent months, a cybercrime group known as Blacktail has begun to make headlines as they continue to target organizations around the globe. The group was first spotted by the Unit 42 Team at Palo Alto Networks earlier this year. Since February, the group has launched multiple attacks based on their latest ransomware campaign labeled Buhti.

It is fair to say that few technologies have grabbed more news headlines in 2023 than ChatGPT. As an artificial intelligence (AI) language model, ChatGPT is a powerful tool that has the potential to revolutionize multiple business areas, including, but not limited to, marketing, operations, engineering, risk management, legal and employee optimization.

Less than six months ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was largely considered to be in its infancy and primarily used for niche applications, like editing photos and keeping your home at a comfortable temperature. But that’s all changed. Since OpenAI introduced GPT-3.5 in November 2022, the possibilities of generative AI have come to dominate the popular imagination.

Elon Musk's ascension isn't the first thing to cause waves of scams on Twitter, and it certainly won't be the last. On July 20th of 2022, data belonging to over 5 million Twitter users was put up for sale on the internet underground for $30,000. The FTC reported that we've experienced a recent "gold mine for scammers" and the April bump to a 10,000-character limit (for Twitter Blue) only makes things more interesting.

At the turn of the most recent century, the financial world was in a moment of unregulated growth, which lead to some serious corporate misdeeds in the United States. This presented the opportunity for two senators to enact a new law to ensure accurate and reliable financial reporting for public companies in the US. The result was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002. But what does financial reporting have to do with cybersecurity and IT compliance?

In March 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a proposed rule, the Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure, that, if adopted, would require companies to disclose their cybersecurity governance capabilities and the role of the board concerning oversight of cyber risk.