Trend Micro and Intel Innovate to Weed Out Covert Threats

Some LLM-created scripts and emails can lower the barrier of entry for low-skill attackers, who can use services like Lovable to create convincing, effective websites in minutes.

The fake websites trick users into downloading and running malware that searches for personal information, especially anything related to crypto currency.

The loosely affiliated hacking group has shifted closer to ransomware gangs, raising questions about Scattered Spider’s ties to the Russian cybercrime underground.

The Middle East and North Africa have become the target of a new campaign that delivers a modified version of a known malware called AsyncRAT since September 2024. “The campaign, which leverages social media to distribute malware, is tied to the region’s current geopolitical climate,” Positive Technologies researchers Klimentiy Galkin and Stanislav Pyzhov said in…

A $14 billion seizure by US investigators presents a warning for cybercriminals’ reliance on bitcoin but is still a positive development for the cryptocurrency industry.

So far the attacks, which compromise virtual network computing (VNC) connections in OT systems, have not been particularly destructive, but this could change as they evolve.