Cyber experts from the SANS Institute have revealed the five most dangerous new attack techniques being used by attackers including cyber criminals and nation-state actors. They were presented in a session at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, where a panel of SANS analysts explored emerging Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures …

Expert instructors from the SANS Institute here yesterday detailed what they cite as the most dangerous forms of cyberattacks for 2023. Some of the key themes bubbling to the surface included the intersection of AI with attack patterns and the ways that attackers are taking advantage of highly flexible development …

The Cosmos cooperative bank in Pune, among the city’s oldest urban cooperative banks, has fallen prey to cyber fraudsters. Hackers gained access to the bank’s system and stole Rs 94 crore. A court in Maharashtra’s Pune had found 11 persons guilty. Fahim Shaikh and Mohammad Saeed Iqbal Hussain Jafari of …

Google this week announced that it has obtained a court order that helped it disrupt the CryptBot information stealer’s distribution. Initially designed to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information such as credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more, CryptBot was also seen distributing banking trojans. Over the past year alone, the malware infected …

A Massachusetts city became the victim of a cyberattack that severely disrupted its network and systems. Residents have been notified. Let us introduce you to malverposting – threats delivered through social media. In one such campaign, the attacker has been exploiting Facebook Ads. Moving on, security researchers identified two ransomware …

While healthcare providers are reassessing the use of third-party tracking tools and the cyber risks associated with them, a medical technology provider became the latest to disclose a privacy breach. In other news, FIN7 is back in the headlines. It is targeting a vulnerability in Veeam instances. The education sector …

In the recent hybrid, multi-vendor, multi-threat world, Cisco Extended Detection and Response (XDR) streamlines security operations with unrivaled visibility across the network and endpoint. To accomplish its goal of the Cisco Security Cloud, a unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform, Cisco recently presented the most recent development. Organizations should defend the …

Morphisec Threat Labs researchers have recently exposed a sneaky loader called “in2al5d p3in4er” (Invalid Printer) that delivers Aurora information stealer malware through YouTube videos. Using an advanced anti-VM technique, the in2al5d p3in4er loader, built with Embarcadero RAD Studio, specifically targets endpoint workstations. Late in 2022, Aurora appeared on the threat …

Organizations with ties with the government are a lucrative target for cybercriminals. One such commercial and defense shipbuilder, which is also a U.S. Navy contractor, fell victim to a ransomware attack. Unsecured databases continue to be a huge problem as Peugeot became the latest in line to leak its user …

OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn’t a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018. Soon after, the San Francisco lab started a major transformation. It turned itself into a business that’s attracted worldwide attention as the maker of ChatGPT. Now its …