A threat actor that goes by the name of “La_Citrix” inadvertently infected his own computer. Cyberthreat research firm sent his information on to law enforcement.

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Russia’s war strategy increasingly involves cybersecurity, with the country expected to ramp up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and countries that are members of NATO, according to Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service (FIS). “The war in Ukraine represents a threat with partially global implications for critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure outside the war zone could also..

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Enterprises lack detections for more than three-quarters of all MITRE ATT&CK techniques, while 12% of SIEM rules are broken and will never fire due to data quality issues including misconfigured data sources and missing fields. These were among the results of a CardinalOps report which analyzed real-world data from production SIEMs including from Splunk, Microsoft..

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IRONSCALES this week made available in beta a tool that leverages OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) technology to make it simpler for end users to identify suspicious emails. IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti said Themis Co-pilot for Microsoft Outlook is based on PhishLLM, a large language model (LLM) that the company hosts on behalf of customers...

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A recently discovered cloud-focused malware tool has seemingly been updated with additional functionality.

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An analysis of cyberattacks published by the Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks found a significant increase in attempts to mimic generative artificial intelligence (AI) sites on the web using typosquatting techniques. Cybercriminals are attempting to take advantage of the popularity of platforms like ChatGPT to distribute malware to end users that are..

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The energy industry is increasingly targeted by malicious actors and threat groups through activity on the dark web, according to a report from Searchlight Cyber, which detailed numerous instances of threat actors selling initial access to energy organizations around the world. These include targets in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Indonesia on popular dark..

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Everyone should be familiar with ransomware and its impact on businesses by now. But while you may understand the very basics of ransomware, you can’t really protect your organization until you are familiar with the entire ransomware attack life cycle from the time threat actors get into your system until you make the decision whether..

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