Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Available as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), BlackByte has been used in attacks against US and foreign businesses, including in critical infrastructure sectors such as government, financial, and food and agriculture, the FBI and USSS warn. BlackByte operators recently claimed to have obtained financial data from the San Francisco 49ers as a result of an attack that…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

You might have the luxury of time when planning for a vacation, but cybersecurity teams do not have the time to hunt in the wrong haystack when responding to security incidents. Every second matters in the wake of an intrusion detection, as threat actors move quickly from the first breach point to various other points…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Ransomware tends to target organizations. Corporations not only house a trove of valuable data they can’t function without, but they are also expected to cough up a considerable amount of ransom money in exchange for their encrypted files. And while corporations struggle to keep up with attacks, ransomware groups have left the average consumer relatively…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

In June 2020, OpenAI released version 3 of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3), a natural language transformer that took the tech world by storm with its uncanny ability to generate text seemingly written by humans. But GPT-3 was also trained on computer code, and recently OpenAI released a specialized version of its engine, named Codex,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

For years, Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have been observed launching various cyberattacks against Ukrainian targets, with some of these groups believed to be part of or under the direct supervision of Moscow’s secret service. Over the past months, at least two Russian state-sponsored groups have been observed launching cyberattacks against Ukraine, namely Gamaredon,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The company’s researchers have analyzed the roughly 2,600 data leaks that resulted from ransomware attacks in 2021 and determined that approximately 1,300 of them impacted critical infrastructure and industrial organizations. An investigation of 70 of these leaks showed that ten of them contained technically sensitive OT information. Mandiant’s analysis included manually browsing through file listings…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

This is a result of basic mechanics: “When one object exerts a force on a second object, the second one exerts a force on the first that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.” In cyber, it means that when defenses get stronger, attackers get more sophisticated; and when attackers get more sophisticated, defenses…