Fraud Investigation Techniques
The Ransomware Holiday Bind: Burnout or Be Vulnerable
Ransomware groups target enterprises during off-hours, weekends, and holidays when security teams are stretched thin and response times...
AI Bolsters Python Variant of Brazilian WhatsApp Attacks
Water Saci has upgraded its self-propagating malware to compromise banks and cryptocurrency exchanges by targeting enterprise users of ...
China Researches Ways to Disrupt Satellite Internet
While satellite constellations — such as Starlink — are resilient, 2,000 drones could cut communications to a region the size of Taiwan...
While ECH Adoption Is Low, Risks Remain for Enterprises, End Users
Is the new privacy protocol helping malicious actors more than Internet users?
Iran’s ‘MuddyWater’ Levels Up With MuddyViper Backdoor
New Fooder loader and memory-only tactics suggest MuddyWater has evolved from its usual noisy ops to more stealthy espionage operations...
Researchers Use Poetry to Jailbreak AI Models
When prompts were presented in poetic rather than prose form, attack success rates increased from 8% to 43%, on average — a fivefold in...
New Raptor Framework Uses Agentic Workflows to Create Patches
Researchers used prompts and large language models to develop an open source AI framework capable of generating both vulnerability expl...
DPRK’s ‘Contagious Interview’ Spawns Malicious Npm Package Factory
North Korean attackers have delivered more than 197 malicious packages with 31K-plus downloads since Oct. 10, as part of ongoing state-...
Tomiris Unleashes ‘Havoc’ With New Tools, Tactics
The Russian-speaking group is targeting government and diplomatic entities in CIS member states and Central Asia in its latest cyber-es...