25 Years After Code Red: What the Worm Era Can Teach Us About AI Security

A newly released study exclusively shared with Dark Reading details the unique circumstances that make up Latin America’s labor pool, and why organizations may want to expand their talent search.

The intelligence-gathering cyber campaign introduces the novel HazyBeacon backdoor and uses legitimate cloud communication channels for command-and-control (C2) and exfiltration to hide its malicious activities.

The Harsh Truths of AI Adoption MITs State of AI in Business report revealed that while 40% of organizations have purchased enterprise LLM subscriptions, over 90% of employees are actively using AI tools in their daily work. Similarly, research from Harmonic Security found that 45.4% of sensitive AI interactions are coming from personal email accounts,…

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new Golang-based backdoor that uses Telegram as a mechanism for command-and-control (C2) communications. Netskope Threat Labs, which detailed the functions of the malware, described it as possibly of Russian origin. “The malware is compiled in Golang and once executed it acts like a backdoor,” security researcher Leandro Fróes…

Technological adoption, demographics, politics, and uniquely Latin American law enforcement challenges have combined to make the region uniquely fertile for cyberattacks.

Using Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and a detailed playbook prompt, a handful of cyberattackers reportedly gained access to government agencies and its citizens’ data.