Malware

Google Launches Red Team to Secure AI Systems Against Attacks
Google is rolling out a red team charged with testing the security of AI systems by running simulated but realistic attacks to uncover vulnerabilities or other weaknesses that could be exploited by ...

‘China’ Azure Breach: MUCH Worse Than Microsoft Said
Storm-0558 Breaks: Satya and Pooh, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G ...

GitHub Developers Targeted by North Korea’s Lazarus Group
The Lazarus Group is behind a social engineering campaign that uses repository invitations and malicious npm packages to target developers on GitHub ...

Dell Adds Orchestration Capabilities to Data Protection Platform
Dell Technologies added orchestration capabilities to its data protection software that makes it simpler for IT teams to schedule backup ...

The Rise of QR Codes Spurs Rise in ‘Fresh Phish’
Miscreants have ramped up their use of QR codes to phish for credentials, according to INKY threat researchers ...

New P2P Worm Puts Windows and Linux Redis Servers in its Sights
A new peer-to-peer (P2P) worm, P2PInfect, is spreading across instances of the Redis open source database software in the cloud ...

FIN8 Group Using Modified Sardonic Malware for Deployment of BlackCat Ransomware
FIN8 Group Using Modified Sardonic Malware for Deployment of BlackCat Ransomware According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, the financially motivated threat actor known as FIN8 has been observed using ...

Attacker ID’ed After Infecting Own Computer With Malware
A threat actor that goes by the name of “La_Citrix” inadvertently infected his own computer. Cyberthreat research firm sent his information on to law enforcement ...

An ‘Alarming Escalation’ of Sophistication in DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare Says
Distributed DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, making an already-expanding threat landscape even more challenging ...