Threat hunters have discovered a new malware called Latrodectus that has been distributed as part of email phishing campaigns since at least late November 2023.
“Latrodectus is an up-and-coming downloader with various sandbox evasion functionality,” researchers from Proofpoint and Team Cymru said in a joint analysis published last week, adding it’s designed to retrieve
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The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 5,070. But 2024 is starting off showing a very different picture. While the numbers skyrocketed in Q4 2023 with 1309 cases, in Q1 2024, the ransomware industry was down to 1,048 cases. This is a 22% decrease in ransomware attacks compared to Q4 2023.
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According to Silicon Angle, this significant injection of capital is spearheaded by Altimeter Capital Management LP, with notable participation from Point72 Ventures LLC, marking a new milestone for the company founded in 2020.
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Google fights Chrome V8 engine memory safety bugs with a new sandbox and adds it to the bug bounty program.
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A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Netsecfish’ disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-3273, that impacts multiple end-of-life D-Link NAS device models.
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Crowdfense has announced a $30 million exploit acquisition program covering Android, iOS, Chrome, and Safari zero-days.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and multiple industry leaders are calling for a month-long extension of the 60-day comment period for a new incident reporting rule being issued by the top cybersecurity agency in the U.S.
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AI tools are getting better at cloning people’s voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.
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A police investigation has been launched after MPs were apparently targeted in a “spear-phishing” attack, in what security experts believe could be an attempt to compromise the UK Parliament.
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Cloud security provider Wiz found two critical architecture flaws in generative AI models uploaded to Hugging Face, namely shared Inference infrastructure takeover and shared CI/CD takeover.
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