Technology

Quick Bit: Netacea research found that 93% of security leaders expect to face daily AI-driven attacks by the end of 2024, with 65% predicting that offensive AI will be the norm for cybercriminals

Quick Bit: Notorious APT44 group Sandworm launched a mass campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure in March

Quick Bit: The new document is the first release from NSA’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC), in partnership with other government agencies in the US and other Five Eyes countries

Quick Bit: A new variant of the RedLine Stealer malware has been discovered, utilizing Lua bytecode for stealth and effectiveness.

Quick Bit: The Forminator WordPress plugin used in over 500,000 sites is vulnerable to a flaw that allows malicious actors to perform unrestricted file uploads to the server.

Quick Bit: A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400) in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS is being actively exploited by threat actors.

Quick Bit: A joint advisory from Europol and US and Dutch government agencies estimated that Akira made around $42m in ransomware proceeds from March 2023 to January 2024

Quick Bit: ​American telecom provider Frontier Communications is restoring systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack.

Quick Bit: A new Android banking malware named ‘SoumniBot’ is using a less common obfuscation approach by exploiting weaknesses in the Android manifest extraction and parsing procedure.