A phishing campaign targeting attendees of Black Hat and DEF CON conferences involved distributing information-stealing malware and remote access malware via a malicious Google Doc and fake DocSend installers for macOS and Windows. The Huntress team learned about the phishing attack after one of its researchers received a direct message on X on August 9. [...]

Scams are evolving with technology. Generative AI is a game changer for scammers and has been blamed for the rise in increasingly sophisticated phishing campaigns. It is also enabling scammers to add credibility to their schemes by providing a quick, cheap, and easy way to create fake websites, videos, documents, and photographs. Tasks that once [...]

Security researchers at Oasis Security have disclosed a vulnerability in Claude Desktop that could allow attackers to execute hidden prompts, access local files, exfiltrate conversation history, or execute code with a single click on a malicious link. The vulnerability, dubbed PromptFiction, affects the way Claude Desktop handled claude:// links.  According to the researchers, clicking one [...]

Russian state-sponsored actors are compromising poorly secured routers and networking devices around the world, with critical infrastructure organisations among the primary targets, reveals a new joint cybersecurity advisory from 20 government agencies.  The advisory attributes the activity to cyber actors associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16, saying the group continues to [...]

Americans are becoming more effective at avoiding spam calls and texts, but new research suggests that the strategy comes with an unexpected cost. A new survey of 1,000 Americans from privacy company Cloaked, revealed that two-thirds of respondents have missed an important phone call because they ignored an unknown number. One in three have missed [...]

Security researchers at Sysdig have documented what they believe is the first documented case of an AI agent running a ransomware operation from end to end. Dubbed JADEPUFFER, the operation used a large language model (LLM) to automate an attack that began with the exploitation of an internet-facing Langflow instance and ended in destructive database [...]