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Cybersecurity researchers at SentinelLabs have uncovered a new Python-based infostealer and hack tool named “Predator AI.” The malicious tool is specifically designed to target cloud services and integrates artificial intelligence (AI) technology, specifically a ChatGPT-driven class implemented into the Python script. The inclusion of the GPTj class adds a chat-like text-processing interface to interact with […]
Nov 10, 2023The Hacker NewsThreat Intelligence / SecOps There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their organization, and this has accelerated the adoption […]
Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident […]
Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Cyber Threat A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by CrowdStrike to a threat actor it tracks […]
The attack generated one million requests per second (RPS), four times larger than any previous attack on the bank. Sberbank believes that new, highly skilled hackers are targeting major Russian resources.
Nov 10, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Cyber Espionage Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News (urdu.hunzanews[.]net), which, when opened on a mobile […]
Nov 09, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day The threat actor known as Lace Tempest has been linked to the exploitation of a zero-day flaw in SysAid IT support software in limited attacks, according to new findings from Microsoft. Lace Tempest, which is known for distributing the Cl0p ransomware, has in the past leveraged zero-day flaws in […]
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has admitted the cause of intermittent outages across its flagship generative AI offering over the past day: distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to the developer’s status page, ChatGPT and its API have been suffering from “periodic outages” since around midday PST on November 8. The most recent update came at […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response Cook County Health Says It Is Among the Vendor’s ‘Many’ Clients Affected by Hack Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 8, 2023 Image: Getty A major healthcare provider in Chicago that targets underserved populations is notifying as many as 1.2 million patients […]