AI Friday: Threat Intelligence, Securing AI, Security Compliance,Detect AI-generated-fake Podcasts Tool, FASTCash Malware for Linux

Hey! James here.

Today’s edition focuses on AI, SOC and Threat Intelligence.

• 📝 Threat Hunting by using Log Analysis, Gmail Account Takeover: Super Realistic AI Scam Call, Best Practices of Security Compliance!

• 🔥 An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends, Salt Typhoon Hack, Ai-generated-fake-podcasts, Pwnlook Tool!

• 🧠 Securing AI like A Boss, Defending Your Business with Threat Intelligence!

• And more…

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📰 Top Security News

• How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends (Google)

• FASTCash Malware for Linux (Doubleagent)

• Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only For The "Good Guys" (Eff)

📝 Best Of Blogs

• Threat Hunting by using Log Analysis (Trunc)

• Gmail Account Takeover: Super Realistic AI Scam Call (Sammitrovic)

• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t(Arstechnica)

🧠 Learning Resources

• Defending Your Business with Threat Intelligence (Secureworks)

• Securing AI Like a Boss: Webcast (RSA)

• Contagious Interview: DPRK Threat Actors Lure Tech Industry Job Seekers to Install New Variants of BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret Malware (Unit42)

🛠️ Tools

• Ai-generated-fake-podcasts - A growing list of fake podcasts generated by Notebook LM. (GitHub)

• CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis. (GitHub)

• Pwnlook - An offensive postexploitation tool that will  give you complete control over the Outlook desktop application and therefore to the emails configured in it. (GitHub)

⚡️ Misc

• What are the Best Practices of Security Compliance? (Panorays)

• OpenAI confirms threat actors use ChatGPT to write malware (Bleepingcomputer)

• Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat’s MMTLS Encryption Protocol (Citizenlab)

🎯 Favorite Quote

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.“
_{- Babe Ruth}