The fake websites trick users into downloading and running malware that searches for personal information, especially anything related to crypto currency.
In the wrong hands, the popular red-teaming tool can be made to access networks, escalate privileges, conduct reconnaissance, and disguise malicious activity as a simulated exercise.
Cyberattackers believed to be affiliated with the state-sponsored threat group pulled off the largest crypto heist reported to date, stealing $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit. It was carried out by interfering with a routine transfer between wallets.
Nearly a third of organizations have an operational system connected to the Internet with a known exploited vulnerability, as attacks by state and non-state actors increase.
This move comes less than a year after the United States banned Kaspersky products, out of the same fear that the company is under Russian government control.
Confirmation by South Korea's data protection agency that the AI chatbot sent data to TikTok's Chinese parent company has spurred a ban in that nation, and is again is calling into question DeepSeek's safety.
A new streaming series about a catastrophic, nationwide cyberattack against US critical infrastructure is about as believable as its main character: an honest, bipartisan, universally beloved politician.
Thai police said it was expecting to soon welcome 7,000 human trafficking victims, forced to work on cybercrime scams in call centers in Mynmar, in a first wave of people being freed from captivity.
In addition to using CVE-2018-0171 and other Cisco bugs to break into telecom networks, the China-sponsored APT is also using stolen login credentials for initial access.
Estonia and Monaco back up their citizens' information to a data center in Luxembourg, while Singapore looks to India as its safe haven for data. But geopolitical challenges remain.
Every organization should be exploring a layered approach in which artificial and human intelligences come together to form a rich, dynamic, and multifaceted deepfake defense strategy tailored to its needs.
The China-backed threat group often acts swiftly, going from initial access to compromise in just one day, a behavior atypical of cybercriminal groups.