Specialization among threat groups poses challenges for defenders, who now must distinguish between different actors responsible for different facets of an attack.
Specialization among threat groups poses challenges for defenders, who now must distinguish between different actors responsible for different facets of an attack.
Former members tied to the Black Basta ransomware operation have been observed sticking to their tried-and-tested approach of email bombing and Microsoft Teams phishing to establish persistent access to target networks. “Recently, attackers have introduced Python script execution alongside these techniques, using cURL requests to fetch and deploy malicious payloads,” ReliaQuest said in a report
The most recent iteration of the open source infostealer skates by antivirus programs on Macs, using an encryption mechanism stolen from Apple’s own antivirus product.
Some members of Congress seem more intent on grabbing headlines than actually working to make America more cyber secure.
A patch bypass for a bug in the popular desktop emulator enables root-level privilege escalation and has no fix in sight.
In this roundtable, cybersecurity experts — including two former CISA executives — weigh in on alternate sources for threat intel, incident response, and other essential cybersecurity services.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strategy has been codenamed Bad Likert Judge by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Yongzhe Huang, Yang Ji, Wenjun…