The attack involved the deployment of a sophisticated backdoor called LightlessCan, which mimics native Windows commands and implements techniques to avoid detection by security monitoring software.

As part of this trend, which was observed in July 2023, the FBI notes in a new private industry notification, threat actors deploy two ransomware variants in close date proximity to one another.

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been linked to a cyber espionage attack targeting an unnamed aerospace company in Spain in which employees of the firm were approached by the threat actor posing as a recruiter for Meta. "Employees of the targeted company were...

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) left a data repository exposed, including sensitive files such as copies of 4,600 national passports, putting individuals at risk of identity theft and other fraudulent activities.

Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it's keeping them up tonight.  Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to...

The industry argues that KYC could cost billions of dollars in administrative costs and raise privacy concerns, while sophisticated hackers would easily work around these requirements.

Ads are now being inserted into Bing Chat conversations, which poses a risk for users searching for software downloads. Malicious actors can trick users into visiting malicious sites and installing malware.

Asia-Pacific is the second-most targeted region for malicious bot requests against financial services, with global hubs Singapore, Australia, and Japan the region's top three most targeted, accounting for the bulk of web application and API attacks.

Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which revealed that unsuspecting users can be tricked into visiting...

The researcher's role in investigating the scam led to a grand jury subpoena, highlighting the potential legal risks faced by ethical hackers and defenders involved in similar work.