Data-Driven Insights on Internet Mechanics, Governance & Security
As GenAI and cyber incidents dominate headlines, cyber threat intelligence (CTI) teams in large enterprises are seeing a sustained surge of requests for information (RFIs) from executives, colleagues, customers, and partners. It …
Initially, this post was intended to be a routine review of how cyber threat actors utilize domain names and DNS infrastructure, how these uses evolve, and how cyber threat analysts can use …
Bulletproof Hosting Havens for FIN7 and Russian Cyber Threat Groups arrow_forward
This post builds upon an observation from our previous quote: “virtually all European Union member state ccTLDs that enforce nexus restrictions also have massively lower levels of abuse [than the .US ccTLD] due to …
In our previous post we reviewed the findings of NewsGuard’s report on the use of AI-generated content by news and information websites. In this post we’ll analyze, with help from DomainTools and ChatGPT: new …
Max Headroom 2.0 – Part 2: AI-Generated Content Detection and Impact arrow_forward
NewsGuard’s recent report on the rise of AI-generated newsbots flashed me back to the 1985 cyberpunk character Max Headroom, generally recognized as the first computer-generated TV talking head. [1,4] But while Max Headroom really wasn’t …
Max Headroom 2.0: Newsbots, Fake News, Fake Trust, Scam Likely arrow_forward