Cybercriminal abuse of large language models
Cybercriminals are increasingly gravitating towards uncensored LLMs, cybercriminal-designed LLMs and jailbreaking legitimate LLMs.
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Cybercriminals are increasingly gravitating towards uncensored LLMs, cybercriminal-designed LLMs and jailbreaking legitimate LLMs.
LLMs may serve as powerful assistants to malware analysts to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and provide actionable insights during malware analysis.
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Martin explores how using crime script analysis to describe an attack with everyday language makes the situation accessible to non-technical audiences and ident...
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OverviewRapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained...
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Overview On August 11, 2026, Rapid7 and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-63520, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint. Today we...