Malware
Black Friday Scammers are Hard at Work: Security Experts
Scammers are using everything from fraudulent deals and fake ads to spoofed websites and brand impersonation to target online shoppers who are gearing up for Black Friday as the holiday buying season ...
Emulating the Destructive WhisperGate Malware
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that seeks to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the destructive WhisperGate malware. The post Emulating the Destructive WhisperGate Malware appeared first ...
Schneider Electric Confirms Ransom Hack — Hellcat Demands French Bread as ‘Joke’
That’s a lot of pain: $125,000 ransom seems small—but why do the scrotes want it paid in baguettes? ...
Interpol Operation Shuts Down 22,000 Malicious Servers
Interpol, other law enforcement agencies, and cybersecurity firms teamed up for Operation Synergia II, shutting down 22,000 malicious servers that supported ransomware, phishing, and other attacks and arresting 41 people connected to ...
Google Uses Its Big Sleep AI Agent to Find SQLite Security Flaw
Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that ...
GreyNoise: AI’s Central Role in Detecting Security Flaws in IoT Devices
GreyNoise Intelligence researchers said proprietary internal AI-based tools allowed them to detect and identify two vulnerabilities in IoT live-stream cameras that traditional cybersecurity technologies would not have been able to discover ...
UnitedHealth Hires Longtime Cybersecurity Executive as CISO
UnitedHealth Group, which is still picking up the pieces after a massive ransomware attack that affected more than 100 million people, hired a new and experienced CISO to replace the previous executive ...
AWS Seizes Domains Used by Russian Threat Group APT29
Cloud computing giant AWS, tipped off by Ukrainian security experts, seized domains that were being used by Russian threat group APT29 to send phishing emails to government officials and enterprises that contained ...
100 MILLION Americans in UnitedHealth PII Breach
Not cute: $UNH’s Change Healthcare unit paid a big ransom—its IT was as weak as a kitten ...
Ransomware Rising – Understanding, Preventing and Surviving Cyber Extortion
Over the past 6 months I have been researching ransomware, and not even from the technical angle (which would very tempting and no doubt, enlightening in it’s own right), but from a ...
