The MITRE Corporation, a non-profit organization, has disclosed that in January 2024, a sophisticated, state-sponsored hacker group infiltrated its systems by chaining together two zero-day exploits in the Ivanti VPN. The incident was initially...
From June 2023 to February 2024, specialists from Sophos‘s cyber intelligence division identified 19 different types of ransomware being offered for sale on four dark web forums for relatively modest sums, ranging from $20...
Cisco has released updates to address a critical vulnerability in its Integrated Management Controller, which allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to the administrator level. “A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently published a study demonstrating that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model, GPT-4, is capable of independently exploiting vulnerabilities in real systems once it receives detailed descriptions of...
A service called Spy Pet has raised alarms among Discord users by offering archival and activity tracking services on the platform for a nominal fee of $5. Spy Pet enables third parties, potentially including...
At the end of last year, a major American automobile manufacturer, whose name has not been disclosed, fell victim to a targeted attack orchestrated by the hacker group FIN7. According to researchers from BlackBerry,...
Forescout has detected a new campaign exploiting a vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient EMS devices to disseminate malware. The SQL injection vulnerability, CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score: 9.8), enables unauthorized attackers to execute code through specially crafted...
A new type of banking malware for Android, named “SoumniBot,” employs an unconventional obfuscation method that leverages vulnerabilities in the process of extracting and analyzing the Android manifest. This allows it to circumvent standard...
Since 2015, certain Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malicious program known as OfflRouter. Researchers from Cisco Talos have analyzed over 100 infected documents, which enabled them to identify the virus’s ongoing...
Microsoft unveiled its Windows Copilot AI assistant as early as May last year, initiating the integration of AI-related functionalities within the Windows operating system and continuously releasing various measures to enhance the usage of...