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Security News This Week: A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions

Plus: New evidence emerges about who may have helped 9/11 hijackers, UK police arrest a teen in connection with an attack on London’s transit system, and Poland’s spyware scandal enters a new phase.

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We can try to bridge the cybersecurity skills gap, but that doesn’t necessarily mean more jobs for defenders

A June report from CyberSeek found that there are only enough skilled workers to fill 85 percent of cybersecurity jobs in America.

Quad7 Botnet Expands to Target SOHO Routers and VPN Appliances

The operators of the mysterious Quad7 botnet are actively evolving by compromising several brands of SOHO routers and VPN appliances by leveraging a combination of both known and unknown security flaws. Targets include devices from TP-LINK, Zyxel, Asus, Axentra, D-Link, and NETGEAR, according to a new report by French cybersecurity company Sekoia. "The Quad7 botnet operators appear to be

Commercial Spyware Use Roars Back Despite Sanctions

Vendors of mercenary spyware tools used by nation-states to track citizens and enemies have gotten savvy about evading efforts to limit their use.

ASUS RT-AC3200 3.0.0.4.382.50010 Command Injection

Proof of concept exploit demonstrating a remote command injection vulnerability in ASUS RT-AC3200 version 3.0.0.4.382.50010.

“Hello pervert” sextortion scam includes new threat of Pegasus—and a picture of your home

" Hello pervert" sextortion mails keep adding new features to their email to increase credibility and urge victims to pay

Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home

An old but persistent email scam known as "sextortion" has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of recipients pleasuring themselves, now include a photo of the target's home in a bid to make threats about publishing the videos more frightening and convincing.

Rocinante Trojan Poses as Banking Apps to Steal Sensitive Data from Brazilian Android Users

Mobile users in Brazil are the target of a new malware campaign that delivers a new Android banking trojan named Rocinante. "This malware family is capable of performing keylogging using the Accessibility Service, and is also able to steal PII from its victims using phishing screens posing as different banks," Dutch security company ThreatFabric said. "Finally, it can use all this exfiltrated

Unpatched AVTECH IP Camera Flaw Exploited by Hackers for Botnet Attacks

A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in question, is a "command injection vulnerability found in the brightness function of AVTECH closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that allows for remote code execution (RCE)," Akamai researchers Kyle