According to Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) statistics in September – December 2022, the highest detection rate of Wroba.o malware (Trojan-Dropper.

Source: https://metrocebu.news/roaming-mantis-malware-exploits-public-routers-to-target-users-with-dns-changers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roaming-mantis-malware-exploits-public-routers-to-target-users-with-dns-changers

According to new research by Kaspersky, the popular AI tool ChatGPT may be to blame.

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But Kaspersky said that the software had “impressive” results in tagging potential phishing attacks.

Source: https://business.inquirer.net/399752/chatgpt-rates-poorly-in-spotting-phishing-tries

Company’s experts tested gpt-3.5-turbo, the model that powers ChatGPT, on more than 2,000 links that Kaspersky anti-phishing technologies deemed phishing, and mixed it with thousands of safe URLs.

Source: https://newsbytes.ph/2023/05/07/chatgpt-effectiveness-in-detecting-phishing-limited-says-kaspersky/

Kaspersky experts have also highlighted a global trend in the phishing landscape of 2022: an increase in the distribution of attacks through messengers, with the majority of blocked attempts coming from WhatsApp, followed by Telegram and Viber.

Source: https://www.africanews.it/english/8-7-of-users-encountered-phishing-attacks-in-africa-in-2022-global-number-of-attacks-exceeds-500-million/

Kaspersky experts have conducted research on ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, to test its ability to detect phishing links.

Source: https://metrocebu.news/can-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-help-detect-phishing-scams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-help-detect-phishing-scams

Kaspersky, meanwhile, found a 54% downward trend in mobile malware in the Philippines—from 34,010 in 2021 to 15,372 in 2022.

Source: https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2023/07/20/255975/crypto-scams-emerging-threats-philippines/

Kaspersky said the earliest traces of infection it had detected dated back to 2019.

Source: https://www.mutiny.in/russia-says-the-united-states-hacked-into-thousands-of-apple-phones-in-a-spying-scheme/

Parliament calls to curtail Huawei, TikTok and Kaspersky to limit foreign interference in Europe.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/time-ban-tiktok-kaspersky-huawei-eu-parliament-lawmakers/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication