Cybersecurity

Black Basta-Affiliate Spreads Pikabot | Cyware Hacker News

Trend Micro observed the Water Curupira actively propagating the Pikabot loader malware as part of campaigns, more aggressively in Q4 2023. Water Curupira is a Black Basta ransomware affiliate. Diving into Details Pikabot gained notoriety for its sophisticated multi-stage attack mechanism, capable of deploying a decrypted shellcode that extracts another DLL file, the actual payload. […]

Cybersecurity

Security automation gains traction, prompting a “shift everywhere” philosophy – Help Net Security

The use of automated security technology is growing rapidly, which in turn is propagating the “shift everywhere” philosophy – performing security tests throughout the entire software development life cycle – across more organizations, according to Synopsys. This year’s findings revealed a clear trend of firms increasingly taking advantage of security automation to replace manual, subject […]