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Core functions are intact, but the city has taken certain non-emergency systems offline

The phishing email warned users that there had been fraud on the account

Scammers made an estimated $30m in profits in 2022

The average malware variant now utilizes 11 TTPs

Security and ethical concerns raised by surveillance commissioner

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According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data.

This issue seems to have come to a head recently because Amazon staffers and other tech workers throughout the industry have begun using ChatGPT as a “coding assistant” of sorts to help them write or improve strings of code, the report notes.

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“This is important because your inputs may be used as training data for a further iteration of ChatGPT,” the lawyer wrote in the Slack messages viewed by Insider, “and we wouldn’t want its output to include or resemble our confidential information.”

It is an initiative designed to limit user data sharing in digital advertising

It shows the threat actor trying to convince Royal Mail to pay the ransom using various techniques

The attacks mainly targeted victims in the US but also in the UK, Turkey, and the Philippines