Alexander Culafi
Senior News Writer, Security at Tech Target
Podcast Co-Host at Talk Nintendo Podcast
Cybersecurity reporter @DarkReading. One-time novelist (so far). Podcasts: @UnpreparedMen/@TalkNintendoPod. Mostly tweets about video games. DM for Signal.
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3 days ago |
darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi
An unidentifid attacker hid a malicious binary in a tampered copy of a SonicWall VPN product that would have harvested the details of anyone that installed it. SonicWall published threat research on Monday detailing how a threat actor distributed a "hacked and modified" version of the company's SSL VPN application NetExtender.
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4 days ago |
darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi
A new proof-of-concept (PoC) cyberattack uses subtle language over multiple prompts to manipulate major large language models (LLMs) into generating inappropriate content. That's according to research published today by AI security vendor Neural Trust on the "Echo Chamber" attack, which was discovered by Neural Trust AI researcher Ahmad Alobaid.
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1 week ago |
darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi
At least two journalists had their iOS devices compromised in recent months as a result of commercial spyware, according to research published this past week. The Citizen Lab, a research laboratory at the University of Toronto's Munk School, detailed how the commercial spyware Graphite, sold by Israeli-headquartered surveillance vendor Paragon Solutions, was used to target two European journalists.
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1 week ago |
darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi
Threat actors are using .lnk shortcut files to deliver remote payloads in a sophisticated campaign, according to research security vendor Securonix published today. In this malware campaign, tracked as "Serpentine#Cloud," the attacker leverages "Cloudflare Tunnel infrastructure and Python-based loaders to deliver memory-injected payloads through a chain of shortcut files and obfuscated scripts," the researchers explained.
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1 week ago |
darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi
The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation Anubis has distinguished itself with a data wiping functionality in its malware kit, according to Trend Micro research published last week. Anubis, a relatively new group to the RaaS scene, appeared last year and quickly established itself with a number of attacks against critical industry victims.
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