This week we discuss Malware stored on the Blockchain (coming soon to a theater near you!), how to stop Heroes in your SOC (common discussion topic amongst villains!), US Gov requesting governments stop paying ransoms, and a slightly over excited paper on using ciphers to bypass alignment restrictions in LLMs.  

I actually personally found the language issues introduced by chatting with LLMs in ciphertext more interesting personally, but...

Article 1 - The Fake Browser Update Scam Gets a Makeover

Article 2 - How to Banish Heroes from Your SOC?
Supporting Articles:
Does Your Company Lurch from Crisis to Crisis?
Delivering Security at Scale: From Artisanal to Industrial
6 ways to keep your top performers from jumping ship

Article 3 - The US wants governments to commit to not paying ransoms

Article 4 - GPT-4 IS TOO SMART TO BE SAFE: STEALTHY CHAT WITH LLMS VIA CIPHER
Supporting Articles:
Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future

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