AI Friday: GenAI, Network Backdoor, Counter Deception, AI Assistance Side Channel Attack, LOL ESXI Tool, MacOS Ransomware

Hey! James here.

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

• 📝 PowerShell Web Access: Your Network's Backdoor in Plain Sight, How we use Datadog for detection as code!

• 🔥 MacOS NotLockBit Ransomware, CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog, Vulnhuntr, LOLESXi Tools!

• 🧠 How Gen AI and AWS Cloud are Transforming, Your AI Assistant: Side Channel Attack!

• And more…

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📰 Top Security News

• MacOS NotLockBit | Evolving Ransomware Samples Suggest a Threat Actor Sharpening Its Tools (Sentinelone)

• CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog (CISA)

• Can AI Save Cybersecurity From Itself? (Forbes)

📝 Best Of Blogs

• PowerShell Web Access: Your Network's Backdoor in Plain Sight (Dylan Williams)

• What Makes a “Good” Detection? (Datadog)

• How we use Datadog for detection as code (Splunk)

🧠 Learning Resources

• Your AI Assistant has a Big Mouth: A New Side Channel Attack (Defcon)

• Unlocking the Future: How Gen AI and AWS Cloud are Transforming Business (Brain Station 23)

• Counter Deception: Defending Yourself in a World Full of Lies  (Defcon)

🛠️ Tools

• Vulnhuntr - Zero shot vulnerability discovery using LLMs (GitHub)

• LOLESXi - A comprehensive list of binaries/scripts natively available in VMware ESXi that adversaries have utilised in their operations. (GitHub)

• DeepdarkCTI - Collection of Cyber Threat Intelligence sources from the deep and dark web. (GitHub)

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⚡️ Misc

• ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope (Simon Willison)

• The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs (Dbreunig)

• SpaceX Starlink takes flight on Boeing 777 with Qatar Airways (Interesting Engineering)

🎯 Favorite Quote

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
_{- Mae West}