AI for Cybersecurity Shimmers With Promise, but Challenges Abound
Companies are quickly adopting cybersecurity products and systems that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, but the technology comes with significant challenges, and it can't replace human analysts,...
VHD Ransomware Variant Linked to North Korean Cyber Army
The ransomware strain known as VHD has been traced to North Korean state actor APT38 by a team of researchers using detailed code analysis and following a Bitcoin trail.
The Democratic People's Republic...
Microsoft Releases Defender for SMBs
Microsoft has released a stand-alone version of Defender for Business for small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs), which the company says will provide endpoint security on par with that of a large enterprise.
A Microsoft survey found that...
China-Backed Winnti APT Siphons Reams of US Trade Secrets in Sprawling Cyber-Espionage Attack
China's Winnti cyberthreat group has been quietly stealing immense stores of intellectual property and other sensitive data from manufacturing and technology companies in North America and Asia for years.
That's...
Docker Under Siege: Cybercriminals Compromise Honeypots to Ramp Up Attacks
Cybercriminals are ramping up their attacks on the Docker Engine — the software foundation of the container infrastructure used by many cloud-native companies. Researchers flagged a pair of cyber campaigns...
1,000+ Attacks in 2 Years: How the SideWinder APT Sheds Its Skin
It's one of the more prolific yet lesser-known nation-state hacking groups in the world, and it's not out of China or Russia. The so-called SideWinder (aka Rattlesnake or T-APT4)...
FBI: Bank Losses From BEC Attacks Top $43B
Between June 2016 and December 2021, the total losses reported by global financial institutions as a result of business email compromise (BEC) attacks clocked in at more than $43 billion.
The...
Scammer Infects His Own Machine With Spyware, Reveals True Identity
In what can only be described as a case of karmic irony, a Nigerian scammer responsible for stealing more than 800,000 credentials from some 28,000 victims over the past...
Costa Rica Declares State of Emergency Under Sustained Conti Cyberattacks
Newly elected Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves has declared a state of national cybersecurity emergency after weeks of fallout from a Conti ransomware attack that has crippled the country's government and...
5-Buck DCRat Malware Foretells a Worrying Cyber Future
A bargain-basement, $5 price tag on a 3-year-old remote access Trojan (RAT) has concerned some security researchers, who see the move as signs of a possible race to the...
