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Summary: Cisco Talos previews Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas, noting that generative AI will dominate the agenda, including a full-day workshop on holding generative AI accountable and DEF CON's AI Village surfacing vulnerabilities in AI tools. Talos' Dan Mazzella is presenting research on how attackers could take over Android-based infotainment systems in some Ford, Honda and GM cars to steal text messages, contacts and photos passed between the head unit and a connected phone.
Bottom line: Talos is also tracking multiple malware campaigns using NetSupport RAT, with hundreds of known stager variants across dozens of domains in a large-scale malicious advertising campaign - a commercially available remote administration tool first weaponized by adversaries in 2017.
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