Kimsuky is known for its aggressive social engineering tactics and targets governments, nuclear organizations, and foreign relations entities to gather intelligence for North Korea’s interests.
A cyberespionage group known as XDSpy recently targeted Russian military-industrial enterprises, according to new research. XDSpy is believed to be a state-controlled threat actor, active since 2011, that primarily attacks countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In its latest campaign in November, hackers attempted to gain access to the systems of a Russian metallurgical […]
Can getting ChatGPT to repeat the same word over and over again cause it to regurgitate large amounts of its training data, including personally identifiable information and other data scraped from the Web? The answer is an emphatic yes, according to a team of researchers at Google DeepMind, Cornell University, and four other universities who […]
Entertainment journalist and booker Max Velody recalls moving moments with Shane MacGowan On Friday March 10, 2000, I booked Shane and The Popes to perform on ITV London’s lunchtime show, London Today. The plan was to prerecord a performance of ‘The Wearing Of The Green’ which we’d transmit the following Friday, St Patrick’s Day. The […]
Governance & Risk Management , Managed Detection & Response (MDR) , Security Operations Deal Will Expand BlueVoyant’s Footprint in US Government, Defense Industrial Base Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • November 29, 2023 BlueVoyant CEO Jim Rosenthal and Conquest Cyber President Jeff Engle (Images: BlueVoyant) BlueVoyant has purchased an adaptive risk management vendor led by […]
Executive Summary Unit 42 researchers observed a series of apparently related attacks against organizations in the Middle East, Africa and the U.S. We will discuss a set of tools used in the course of the attacks that reveal clues about the threat actors’ activity. We are sharing this research to provide detection, prevention and hunting […]
Foreign interference groups are attempting to build and reach online audiences ahead of a number of significant elections next year, “and we need to remain alert,” Meta warned on Thursday. National elections are set to be held in the United States, United Kingdom and India — three of the world’s largest economies — as well […]
While MGM Resorts International CFO Jonathan Halkyard said Tuesday that business was largely back to normal roughly a month after its September cyberattack, he also doesn’t expect a related insurance matter to be resolved until sometime next year. “We will have a business interruption claim … which should be resolved sometime in 2024,” Halkyard said […]
A Ukrainian citizen was sentenced to eight years in U.S. prison for administering a marketplace that sold the personal information of millions of Americans. Vitalii Chychasov, 37, was arrested in March of last year while attempting to enter Hungary and was later extradited to the U.S. Chychasov previously agreed to forfeit $5 million in proceeds […]