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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and trends. The Canadian regulator is investigating IDScan for potential data privacy violations, while the ransomware PAYLOAD has demonstrated a new tactic, paralyzing an organization without file encryption. Volexity reported a China-aligned threat group exploiting vulnerabilities in Chrome and Microsoft software. The hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI, raising significant counterintelligence concerns. Additionally, ClosedQuorum malware is leveraging AI for attack decisions, indicating a trend towards more sophisticated, autonomous threats. CISA has urged federal agencies to patch a critical Zyxel flaw actively exploited by attackers. Meanwhile, the rise of AI in cybercrime continues, with deepfakes and AI-driven bots posing increasing risks to organizations.
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Researchers warn inquisitive netizens not to click on links in unsolicited emails
Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence one of many affected
In this post, we discuss the creation of a novel software obfuscation toolkit, MAST, implemented in the LLVM compiler and suitable for denying program understanding to even the most well-resourced adversary. Our implementation is inspired by effective obfuscation techniques used by nation-state malw...
A survey reveals that child molestors are sitting in one-fifth of corporate offices.
Enterprises and web pages can add mobile codes to a 'post-password' identty management approach.
We are proud to announce that McSema is now open source! McSema is a framework for analyzing and transforming machine-code programs to LLVM bitcode. It supports translation of x86 machine code, including integer, floating point, and SSE instructions. We previously covered some features of McSema in...
Former US Government Cyber Security Boss Convicted of Tor Pedophile Offences. FBI’s controversial Operation Torpedo claims another scalp
ICO slams prisons service for failing to activate encryption on hard drive
A 2-day conference exploring state-of-the-art advances in security automation. We would like to share the call for papers for THREADS 2014, a research and development conference that is part of NYU-Poly’s Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW). Trail of Bits is a founding sponsor of THREADS. The final...
UPS and Supervalu are two victims that have come forward.
Trend Micro warns website owners to stay alert
We’re proud to be a sponsor of the first Build it Break it programming contest, run by the University of Maryland (UMD) and supported by one of our own employees and PhD student at the university, Andrew Ruef. Build it Break it is a “flipped CTF” where contestants both implement secure software and...
Changing security requirements for healthcare are opening up big new challenges for the sector.
15 feeds have been taken down, as pay-TV booms in the region.
At Trail of Bits we are proud of our roots in academia and research, and we believe it is important to promote cyber security education for students of every academic level. We recently sponsored a High School Capture the Flag (CTF) event, we released a CTF Field Guide, and we are a regular part of...
Lizard Squad promises that Xbox Live is the next target.
A complex exploit stemming from the Akeemba extension could affect millions globally.
Malaysian government claims attackers lifted confidential info on stricken airplane
Honeypot data shows credential-stealing cybercriminals are still using Conficker.
Kaspersky Lab uncovers new targeted attack aimed at government, military and spy agencies