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March

17
2023
Industry News

ChatGPT Powered Polymorphic Malware Bypasses Endpoint Detection Filters

The number of monthly users of ChatGPT exceeded 100 million at the end of January, which sets a new record for the fastest-growing app since it was launched at the end of 2022. Jeff Sims, who works at the HYAS Institute, has created a polymorphic keylogger using artificial intelligence called “Blackmamba,” which uses Python to tweak its program randomly based entirely on the input that has been taken from the user.

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March

17
2023
Industry News

Pax­ton Secures Major Vic­to­ry to Shut Down Texas Robo­callers that Made Bil­lions of Ille­gal Calls

Attorney General Paxton won judgments shutting down a massive robocall operation involving John Caldwell Spiller II and his business partner, Jakob Mears. Spiller and Mears owned the Texas-based Rising Eagle Capital Group LLC, JSquared Telecom LLC, and Rising Eagle Capital Group–Cayman.

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March

17
2023
Industry News

Agency Contact Information

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is issuing this final rule to make non-substantive corrections and updates to Bureau and other Federal agency contact information found at certain locations in Regulations B, E, F, J, V, X, Z, and DD, including Federal agency contact information that must be provided with Equal Credit Opportunity Act adverse action notices and the Fair Credit Reporting Act Summary of Consumer Rights.

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March

17
2023
Industry News

Appeals Court Approves Settlement of Visa and Mastercard Antitrust Suit

A federal appeals court has approved a settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against Visa and Mastercard. The settlement, in which the payment card networks agreed to pay a total of $5.6 billion to 12 million merchants who brought an antitrust case against them, was approved Wednesday (March 15).

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March

16
2023
Industry News

Sterling Bancorp, Inc. to Plead Guilty to $69M Securities Fraud

A Southfield, Michigan-headquartered bank holding company has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud for filing false securities statements relating to its 2017 initial public offering (IPO) and its 2018 and 2019 annual filings.

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