Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events

Science news: Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago,...

What Are Some Ways To Diversify Your Crypto Portfolio In 2025?

Data from research suggests that the global cryptocurrency market will at least triple by 2030, increasing to an…...

How Altcoins Influence The World of Crypto

By Owais Sultan Altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies, diversify the crypto landscape, offering investors options beyond Bitcoin and influencing market dynamics. Their… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Altcoins Influence The World of Crypto...

New Yashma Ransomware Variant Mimics WannaCry in New Attack

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A Vietnamese-origin threat actor employs a Yashma ransomware variant since June 2023, using unique GitHub-based ransom note delivery and mimicking WannaCry. This operation demonstrates the accelerated...

Open-Source LLMs

In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didnt just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community, and shortly thereafter the model itself was leaked. Researchers and programmers...

SaaS Drove Trend’s 20% Q1 2023 Year-Over-Year Growth

Trend’s diversification of business units and geographic markets provides resilience that enables growth, anticipation and innovation...

A Log4j Retrospective Part 3: Evolution — Payloads and Attack Diversification

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2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast

In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps; saw more attacks on customers across more diverse industries than ever before; and observed...

How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive

Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms -- particularly news publishers -- that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the rewards of new readers and viewers, even if the audience boost didn't result in a similar increa...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Turla APT Changes Shape with New Code and Targets

MONTREAL – The Turla APT group’s extensive activities have diversified this year, representing a mix of old code, new code and fresh targets. Perhaps most interesting, this sophisticated group is branching into using scripts and open-source code in its malware development – a marked departure for...

Vendetta Brothers, Inc. – A Window Into the Business of the Cybercriminal Underground

FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence has been tracking a pair of cybercriminals that we refer to as the “Vendetta Brothers.” This enterprising duo uses various strategies to compromise point-of-sale systems, steal payment card information and sell it on their underground marketplace “Vendetta World.” The...

Dynamic Diversification Engine: malWASH

Dynamic Diversification Engine malWASH is a dynamic diversification engine that executes an arbitrary program without being detected by dynamic analysis tools. In other words, it is a malware engine, that can make existing malware, to evade all existing behavioral and dynamic analysis detection...