The Mirai malware botnet is actively exploiting a TP-Link Archer A21 (AX1800) WiFi router vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-1389 to incorporate devices into DDoS (distributed denial of service) swarms.

Visitors are lured to several fake blogs about topics they might find interesting. The original blog, however, is hidden by an overlay showing blurred explicit content and a button asking the visitor to confirm they are 18+ to enter the website.

VirusTotal Code Insight analyzes potentially harmful files to explain their (malicious) behavior, and it will improve the ability to identify which of them pose actual threats.

Peugeot has leaked access to its user data in Peru. On February 3rd, the Cybernews research team discovered an exposed environment file (.env) hosted on the official Peugeot store for Peru.

Phishing scams are a growing threat, and cybercriminals’ methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making them harder to detect and block, according to a Zscaler report.

According to experts, the ultimate goal of this campaign is to gain access to the Facebook accounts of public figures, celebrities, businesses, and sports teams, among others, to steal sensitive information and use it to access additional accounts.

Singapore and France have announced plans to set up a research facility to jointly develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that can be applied in cyber defense.

At the beginning of March, ReversingLabs researchers encountered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) named termcolour, a three-stage downloader published in multiple versions.

Dubbed RustBucket and able to fetch additional payloads from its command-and-control (C&C) server, the malware has been attributed to the APT actor BlueNoroff, which is believed to be a subgroup of the infamous Lazarus hacking group.

Since the generative artificial intelligence chatbot was released in November, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 has detected up to 118 malicious URLs related to ChatGPT daily and domain squatting related to the tool has surged 17,818%.