Threat Detection with YARA, How Should We Respond to Cyber Attacks, Russian APT Group Tool Matrix, Prompt Injection Attack, AutoGPT Tool Spotlight, Windows Powershell Phishing, Researchers Maps $900M in Ransom Payments, Hackers Trick ChatGPT for Homemade Bombs & More

Hey! James here.

Today’s edition includes:

• 📝 Threat detection with YARA rules for SOC engineer and incident response team.

• 🔥 Responding to Cyber Attacks: BSides Leeds talk by Heather Lowrie.

• 🧠 Russian Ransomware APT Tool Matrix: Different tools used by Ransomware APT group for data collection, extraction.

• And more…

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📰 Top Security News

• This Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential (Krebsonsecurity)

• Microsoft improves government account safety after China hack (Axios)

• SonicOS Improper Access Control Vulnerability Security Advisory (Sonicwall)

📝 Best Of Blogs

• Introducing Sigmalite: RunReveal's open source sigma rule evaluator for detection (Runreveal)

• The Russian APT Tool Matrix (Bushidotoken)

• Declassifying the Responsible Disclosure of the Prompt Injection Attack Vulnerability of GPT-3 (Preamble)

🧠 Learning Resources

• Intro to Threat Detection with YARA (Cyberwoxacademy)

• Security Solution: Get familiar with Firewall, IPS/IDS, Antivirus, EDR  (Letsdefend)

• Responding To Cyber Attacks - Heather Lowrie (BSides Leeds)

🛠️ Tools

• AutoGPT - Build, Deploy, and Run AI Agent (GitHub)

• Sigma - Generic Signature Format for SIEM Systems (GitHub)

⚡️ Misc

• Understanding the Modern Ransomware Ecosystem (Jack Cable)

• Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs (Techcrunch)

🎯 Favorite Quote

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.“
_{- Mindy kaling}