Category: Information Security

Critical Flaws Found in Popular WordPress Plugin

Critical Flaws Found in Popular WordPress Plugin

JPCERT specialists are raising alarms about a series of critical vulnerabilities in the Forminator plugin for WordPress, developed by WPMU DEV. This plugin, utilized by over 500,000 websites, enables the creation of various forms...

Cybercrime Trend: Fewer Firms Pay Ransoms

Cybercrime Trend: Fewer Firms Pay Ransoms

In the first quarter of 2024, the percentage of companies that agreed to pay ransoms to cybercriminals reached a record low of 28%. This statistic was provided by Coveware, a firm specializing in cybersecurity....

Ransomware for Sale: Your Data Held Hostage

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...

GPT-4: AI Model Turned Exploit Expert

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...