Nation-state hackers including Russian military intelligence and hackers backed by China have used OpenAI large language models for research and to craft phishing emails, the artificial intelligence company disclosed Tuesday in conjunction with major financial backer Microsoft. Threat actors linked to Iran and North Korea also used GPT-4, OpenAI said. Nation-state hackers primarily used the […]
Microsoft said Iranian state hackers are using a newly developed backdoor to target organizations in the American defense industrial base. The Iranian state threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Peach Sandstorm employed a custom backdoor named FalseFont, which features several capabilities that empower backdoor operators to remotely connect to a compromised system, initiate the execution […]
Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a series of posts […]
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