42% of Developers Using AI Say Their Codebase is Now Mostly AI-Generated

A new multi-stage attack has been observed delivering malware families like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT, and XLoader. “Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass traditional sandboxes, and ensure successful payload delivery and execution,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Saqib Khanzada said in a technical write-up of the campaign….

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued a bulletin about ongoing cyber attacks targeting unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country with a previously undocumented implant known as BADCANDY. The activity, per the intelligence agency, involves the exploitation of CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score: 10.0), a critical vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create…

The vulnerability, with a 9.9 CVSS score on a 10-point scale, results in different Cisco ISE deployments all sharing the same credentials as long as the software release and cloud platform remain the same.

The threat actors behind the Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform appear to be readying a new version that allows prospective customers and cyber crooks to clone any brand’s legitimate website and create a phishing version, further bringing down the technical expertise required to pull off phishing attacks at scale. The latest iteration of the phishing suite…

Researchers discovered a newly disclosed vulnerable driver embedded in Black Basta’s ransomware, illustrating the increasing popularity of the defense-evasion technique.