Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell ...
The Hacker News

Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads

PyStoreRAT spreads via fake GitHub tools using small Python or JavaScript loaders to fetch HTA files and install a modular ...
Hacker

Automating Incident Response: How to Reduce Malware Forensics Time by 99% with Python and VirusTotal

Dippu is a strategic Data & Analytics leader and thought leader in emerging solutions, including Computer Vision and Generative AI/LLMs. Dippu is a strategic Data & Analytics leader and thought leader ...
BankInfoSecurity

Hacking as a Prompt: Malicious LLMs Find Users

The cybercrime-as-a-service model has a new product line, with malicious large language models built without ethical guardrails selling on Telegram for $50 monthly ...
Dark Reading

AI Bolsters Python Variant of Brazilian WhatsApp Attacks

Attackers behind a self-propagating malware campaign targeting Brazilian financial institutions have accelerated and upgraded their malicious activity, using artificial intelligence (AI) to spawn a ...
IEEE

Detecting Python Malware in the Software Supply Chain with Program Analysis

Abstract: The frequency of supply-chain attacks has reached unprecedented levels, amounting to a growing concern about the security of open-source software. Existing state-of-the-art techniques often ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
Ars Technica

5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows ...
SiliconANGLE

Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun

A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for ...
CSOonline

Typo hackers sneak cross-platform credential stealer into 10 npm packages

The typosquatted packages auto-execute on installation, fingerprint victims by IP, and deploy a PyInstaller binary to harvest credentials from browsers, SSH keys, API tokens, and cloud configuration ...
InfoQ

NPM Ecosystem Suffers Two AI-Enabled Credential Stealing Supply Chain Attacks

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...
9to5Mac

Security Bite: Mac users are finally taking malware seriously, per new report

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to ...