Category: Cyber Security

Earth Hundun’s Waterbear Rampage Targets Asia-Pacific

A recently uncovered cyberattack has impacted the technological, scientific, and governmental sectors across the Asia-Pacific region. The attack has been attributed to the hacker group BlackTech, known for its sophisticated methods of obfuscating its...

MITRE Hacked: State-Sponsored Breach Exploits Zero-Days

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...

GPT-4: AI Model Turned Exploit Expert

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...

Global Brute-Force Attacks Spike: Cisco Issues Warning

International cybersecurity is under threat following a discovery by Cisco Talos experts of a large-scale credential stuffing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services of companies including Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti. The campaign...

Cloud Under Siege: Muddled Libra Shifts Tactics

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 reports that the cybercriminal group Muddled Libra is actively targeting cloud applications and cloud service providers in a bid to steal confidential data. According to the report, the attackers...