Information Security News Blog
Researchers at SPLX have demonstrated that ChatGPT can be deceived with carefully crafted prompts and compelled to solve CAPTCHA tests — a task long considered the exclusive domain of humans. This experiment casts doubt...
British investigators have charged 19-year-old East London resident Talha Jubair, alleged to be linked with the Scattered Spider group. According to police and prosecutors, he took part in extortion campaigns against more than a...
A phishing campaign targeting figures in the cryptocurrency industry has come to light after researcher José A. Gómez Ledesma of the Quetzal team reported a string of attacks masquerading as invitations to appear on...
Hackers are increasingly setting their sights on backups — not on systems or servers, but specifically on the very data companies safeguard “for a rainy day” to restore operations after an attack. A new...
In the United Kingdom, former Labour politician Oliver Stedman, who once served as a councillor for Islington in North London, has been formally charged with blackmail. Stedman resigned from his post following his arrest...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning about two distinct malware frameworks uncovered within the network of an unnamed organization, following the exploitation of newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Ivanti...
For the first time in its more than century-long history, the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has publicly announced the launch of a digital platform designed for clandestine contact with prospective informants. Dubbed...
Qilin continues to dominate the ransomware landscape, outpacing all rival groups in the sheer number of documented incidents. According to a recent report from Cyble, the gang struck 104 organizations in August alone, while...
UK authorities have arrested two teenagers suspected of involvement in the August 2024 cyberattack on London’s Transport for London (TfL). The arrests stem from an international investigation linked to the notorious hacking collective Scattered...
Cyberattacks originating not only from criminal syndicates but also from foreign intelligence services have inflicted nearly €300 billion in damages on the German economy over the past year. This conclusion comes from the industry...
Operators of the SystemBC botnet have assembled a global fabric built on compromised commercial virtual servers, sustaining roughly 1,500 active nodes each day. These machines have been repurposed into an infrastructure for relaying malicious...
ScreenshotBOF An alternative screenshot capability for Cobalt Strike that uses WinAPI and does not perform a fork & run. The screenshot was downloaded in memory. Changelog v2.0 JPEG is used in place of BMP...