A seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation” is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, o August 9, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against a Ukrainian national alleged to be central to a ransomware campaign affecting hundreds of companies worldwide. Volodymyr Viktorovych Tymoshchuk,…
Researchers at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering confirmed they created the code as part of a project to illustrate potential harms of AI-powered malware.
Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with…
The financially motivated threat group demonstrates deep knowledge of hybrid cloud environments, which allows it to rapidly steal sensitive data, destroy backups and encrypt systems for ransomware.
The malware, called PromptLock, essentially functions as a hard-coded prompt injection attack on a large language model, inspecting local filesystems, exfiltrating files and encrypting data.
Operation Serengeti 2.0 dismantled almost 11,500 malicious infrastructures between June and August. Officials arrested more than 1,200 alleged cybercriminals.
