Claude AI orchestrated 100 fake personas in global influence campaigns + enabled malware, scams, and brute-force attacks.
Category: cybercrime/malcode
Phishing attacks deliver DarkWatchman and Sheriff malware; targets span Russia, Ukraine, Baltics, with stealth and persistence tactics.
Attackers can weaponize and distribute a large number of packages recommended by AI models that don’t really exist.
Cybercriminals are targeting WooCommerce users with fake patch emails that use IDN homograph spoofing to deliver backdoor malware.
Employee benefits administration firm VeriSource Services is warning that a data breach exposed the personal information of four million people.
VeriSource is a Texas-based employee benefits administration and HR outsourcing solutions provider with diverse clients across the U.S.
The firm has begun data breach notifications to impacted individuals about a cybersecurity incident that occurred in February 2024, but the impact of which it took them until April 2025 to evaluate.
Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase.
These figures come from Cloudflare’s 2025 Q1 DDoS Report, where the company says it mitigated a total of 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024.
However, 2025 is looking to be an even bigger problem for online entities and companies, with Cloudflare already responding to 20.5 million DDoS attacks in just the first quarter of 2025.
Cybersecurity expert Leeza Garber discusses Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warning that the United States could lose the AI race to China on ‘Fox Report.’
Cyberattacks can snare workflows, put vulnerable client information at risk, and cost corporations and governments millions of dollars. A botnet—a network infected by malware—can be particularly catastrophic. A new Georgia Tech tool automates the malware removal process, saving engineers hours of work and companies money.
The tool, ECHO, turns malware against itself by exploiting its built-in update mechanisms and preventing botnets from rebuilding. ECHO is 75% effective at removing botnets. Removing malware used to take days or weeks to fix, but can now be resolved in a few minutes. Once a security team realizes their system is compromised, they can now deploy ECHO, which works fast enough to prevent the botnet from taking down an entire network.
“Understanding the behavior of the malware is usually very hard with little reward for the engineer, so we’ve made an automatic solution,” said Runze Zhang, a Ph.D. student in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Veritaco CEO Jeffrey Bowie faces charges for allegedly installing malware on hospital computers, violating Oklahoma’s Computer Crimes Act.
Lazarus exploited zero-days in South Korean software, targeting 6 firms with ThreatNeedle and more.