Network security appliances like firewalls are meant to keep hackers out. Instead, digital intruders are increasingly targeting them as the weak link that lets them pillage the very systems those devices are meant to protect. In the case of one hacking campaign over recent months, Cisco is now revealing that its firewalls served as beachheads […]
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Researchers Keep Prompts Under Wraps Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • April 22, 2024 Researchers said their GPT-4 agent performed exceptionally well at crafting exploits after being fed CVEs. (Image: Shutterstock) Academics at a U.S. university found that if you feed a GPT-4 artificial […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare , Industry Specific Extortionist Crypto-Locking Hackers Keep Hitting Healthcare Sector, Experts Report Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 1, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Once ransomware hackers get inside a healthcare sector organization’s systems, 3 in 4 attackers will also maliciously encrypt data, says security firm Sophos. See Also: […]
More often than not, its our solemn duty on this site to keep you informed about the nature and tactics of dangerous, cunnning, and persistent cybercriminals. This is not one of those days. In fact, this is the oppposite of one of those days. This is about a passable spam email sent by a spammer […]
A school district in Virginia has managed to keep classrooms open despite facing an attack from a notorious Russian ransomware gang. Fauquier County Public Schools runs 20 elementary, middle and high schools for more than 11,200 students. The county is about an hour from Washington D.C. A spokesperson for the district confirmed to Recorded Future […]