The ransomware attack hit Technion on February 12, forcing the university to block all communication networks. DarkBit originally demanded 80 bitcoins as ransom from the university.
Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and Microsoft’s security-specific model, Security Copilot looks like a simple prompt box like any other chatbot. You can ask “what are all the security incidents in my enterprise?”
The company did not reveal the spyware vendors involved but said one of the campaigns used a link directing targets to a landing page identical to one Google revealed in November 2022 from Spanish spyware firm Variston IT.
Euler Finance was hacked on March 13, 2023, and around $197 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen, including $135.8 million stETH, $33.8 million USDC, $18.5 million WBTC, and $8.7 million DAI.
The French Ministry of Transformation and Public Service on Friday announced a ban on all “recreational apps” from government-issued mobile devices, to take effect immediately.
The man from Lagos participated in multiple BEC, credit card, work-from-home, check-cashing, and romance scams targeting banks, businesses, and individuals in the US and abroad, including First American Holding Company and MidFirst Bank.
“We were recently contacted by a ransomware group who claimed they have illegally obtained a limited number of Crown files,” a spokesperson of the formerly listed firm said in a statement.
ChatGPT’s ability to draft highly realistic text makes it a useful tool for phishing purposes. In addition to generating human-like language, ChatGPT is capable of producing code in a number of different programming languages.
The campaign targets manufacturing companies and multiple businesses in European countries through phishing emails. The malicious payload is distributed through WordPress sites with authorized SSL certificates.
Security researchers at Proofpoint described the malware samples in an advisory published on Monday, which names them Standard, Lite, and Forked IcedID variants respectively.