Serious Unpatched Vulnerability Uncovered in Popular Belkin Wemo Smart Plugs
May 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananInternet of Things / Vulnerability
The second generation version of Belkin's Wemo Mini Smart Plug has been found to contain a...
ChatGPT Chief Testifies on AI risks To US Congress
To mitigate the threats posed by increasingly potent AI systems, government action will be essential, according to the CEO of the artificial intelligence company...
U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Notorious Russian Ransomware Operator
May 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Ransomware
A Russian national has been charged and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) for launching...
APT Hackers Using Custom Backdoor to Attack Government Orgs
The cybersecurity researchers at Symantec Threat Labs recently discovered APT hacking group has been utilizing the specialized ‘Merdoor’ backdoor malware to conduct precise and...
VirusTotal AI code Analysis Expanded to Spot Malicious Files
In April 2023, Google announced VirusTotal Code Insight to improve the capacity of its malware detection and analysis platform. This week, Google released an...
Insurance Industry Suffers 12x More Cyber Attacks
The Insurance industry was the most targeted sector in Q1, 2023, according to Indusface’s State of Application Security report, with 12 times more attacks...
CopperStealer Malware Crew Resurfaces with New Rootkit and Phishing Kit Modules
May 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananOnline Security / Malware
The threat actors behind the CopperStealer malware resurfaced with two new campaigns in March and April 2023...
SchoolDude Hacked – Over 3 million Users Records Exposed
The Office of the Main Attorney General of Maine reported that there was a data breach in one of the Brightly-owned Software on 20th...
Cyolo Product Overview: Secure Remote Access to All Environments
Operational technology (OT) cybersecurity is a challenging but critical aspect of protecting organizations' essential systems and resources. Cybercriminals no longer break into systems,...
Qilin’s RaaS Program Advertised on Dark Web
In March 2023, Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team accessed the Qilin ransomware (Agenda ransomware) group and discovered that it is a Ransomware-as-a-Service affiliate program using...