The Japanese government declared its first-ever "cybersecurity state of emergency" after a major series of cyber attacks impacted roughly a tenth of the national population and resulted in ransomware breaches at 495 businesses in a matter of hours.
A wave of AI-powered cyber attacks has hit at least seven South Korean banks, exposing the personal information of over 140,000 customers and prompting an official investigation.
Most of the conversation around AI in cybersecurity focuses on how attacks are getting faster and more sophisticated. That is true, but it misses a more immediate issue. Many security teams are still operating in ways that assume a much slower threat environment.
A joint advisory by U.S. federal agencies warns of Iranian-affiliated cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, including energy, water, and government sectors.
A recent campaign of cyber attacks made new and novel use of the Claude AI chatbot in scanning VPN endpoints and automating multiple portions of the attack cycle, representing another step forward in the deployment of LLMs for malicious purposes.
Sysadminds need clarity, not clutter – and right now their systems are getting backlogged with excessive false positives. This is where implementing a vulnerability assessment solution that has the built-in intelligence for in-memory patch awareness comes in.
Google Threat Intelligence Group has warned about sophisticated cyber attacks on critical infrastructure by the Scattered Spider ransomware gang via VMware.
The Scattered Spider ransomware gang has been grabbing headlines with a string of bold and high-profile cyber attacks. But researchers with Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) now believe that some of these attacks may have been misattributed, and that the similarly long-tenured ShinyHunters group may have instead been the culprits.
A ransomware gang that recently hit major UK retailers such as Marks & Spencer with cyber attacks is now setting its sights on US companies, according to a warning from Google's security team.
The 18th installment of the DBIR surveyed 22,052 total cyber attacks logged by Verizon's internal threat research team, over half of which (12,195) involved confirmed data breaches. Credential abuse continues in the lead at 22%. Exploitation of vulnerabilities is now up to 20%, followed by phishing at 16%.
