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Aug 19, 2024 | 
hakin9.org | Gaurav Puri |Harsh Daiya
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times has resulted in some ground-breaking applications as well as significant threats to the security landscape. Foremost among these threats is the rise of deepfake technology. Of these threats to our cybersecurity, one particular cyber threat using deepfake technology has been successful in creating a high volume of deceptive threads so convincing that they tap directly into the vulnerabilities of human beings.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
datasciencecentral.com | Gaurav Puri |Ryan Williamson |Dan Wilson |Alan Morrison
The cyber kill chain is a process by which malicious actors carry out cyber attacks. With the development in AI and language models, the entry barrier has been significantly lowered to conduct large-scale SPAM attacks. Artificial Intelligence has significantly reduced the cost of SPAM attacks, now allowing sophisticated approaches to be economically feasible for bad actors.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
hakin9.org | Gaurav Puri
Phishing is a clever criminal approach whereby people are deceived into providing personal details such as their login details or credit card numbers. Unfortunately, the word ‘phishing’ is derived from ‘fishing’, which underlines the fact that the attackers set hooks to lure targets into providing their details. Phishing delivery is the approach and technique that the attackers use to spread out the phishing attempts. This term explains how the ‘bait’ is delivered to the prospective targets.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
securityboulevard.com | Gaurav Puri
By Gaurav Puri One of the critical challenges that leading fintech companies like PayPal, Square, Google and many others face in this digital age is fraud. Traditionally, fraud detection relies on each company analyzing its own user data in a centralized manner. These systems often lack visibility into fraud attacks occurring on other ... Read More
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
dzone.com | Gaurav Puri |Harsh Daiya
Fraud detection is a very important task in most industries, especially in finance and e-commerce. The classic machine learning models struggle to handle the subtlety and complexity of patterns rooted in fraudulent behavior. The dual-tower or Siamese network model provides a powerful architecture to handle the complex tasks of parallel processing with two different sets of inputs, thus helping capture the intricate relationships between them.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
dzone.com | Harsh Daiya |Gaurav Puri
The capability to detect anomalies becomes important in the data-driven world of today and is a key component for various industries such as finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, and manufacturing. Anomalies can be a sign of fraud, system failings, security incidents, or other important events that require immediate attention. The volume, velocity, and variety of streaming data are difficult for traditional anomaly detection techniques to handle.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
hackernoon.com | Gaurav Puri
DALL-E are text-to-image models developed by OpenAI using deep learning methodologies to generate digital images from natural language descriptions known as "prompts". As DALL-E has capabilities to output visual content, there are list of restrictive content which aren’t allowed. What are DALL-E’s content policy ? ChatGPT 4.0 output screenshotNot allowing copyrighted characters was a big bummer! I experimented with a few prompts and was able to successfully get around its copyright restrictions.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
dzone.com | Gaurav Puri
The Hidden Threats in Large Language ModelsA backdoor attack in the context of large language models (LLMs) refers to a type of malicious activity where an adversary intentionally inserts hidden triggers into the model during its training phase. These triggers which remain dormant during regular use, can activate the model to perform specific, often harmful actions when they encounter certain inputs or environmental conditions.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
dzone.com | Gaurav Puri
Email remains one of the most common vectors for cyber attacks, including phishing, malware distribution, and social engineering. Traditional methods of email security have been effective to some extent, but the increasing sophistication of attackers demands more advanced solutions. This is where Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI's GPT-4, come into play.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
dzone.com | Gaurav Puri
In today's digital age, URL-shortening services like TinyURL and bit.ly are essential for converting lengthy URLs into short, manageable links. While many blogs focus on how to build such systems, they often overlook the security aspects. Here, we have threat-modeled the URL shortening service and identified the top threats based on OWASP Top 10. Let's begin with the overview of the URL shortening service. What Is a URL Shortening Service?
