Former Justice Secretaries Sir Robert Buckland and Richard Thornton are calling on the UK government to take stronger action against deepfakes, emphasizing the need for legislative action and technological countermeasures to protect British democracy.
Ransomware attackers have been exploiting vulnerabilities in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver to carry out malicious activities, including manipulating the CLFS_CONTROL_RECORD structure and bypassing index verification, ultimately corrupting BLF files.
Hackers employ sophisticated phishing campaign to distribute malware through Microsoft Word documents written in the uncommon Nim programming language, posing challenges for cybersecurity investigators.
Iranian cyber-espionage group Peach Sandstorm, also known as APT33, Elfin, and Refined Kitten, has been using a new backdoor malware called FalseFont to gain remote access to compromised systems in the Defense Industrial Base sector and execute additional files, highlighting the evolving methods and capabilities of this threat actor.
AI cyberattacks, including generative AI and large language models, are predicted to rise in 2024, posing a significant threat to organizations and individuals.
Attackers are taking advantage of a long-standing vulnerability in Microsoft Office to launch phishing campaigns and spread the Agent Tesla malware.
