CERT-In Recommends 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-In has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse ...

Jailbroken AIs are helping cybercriminals to hone their craft

Cybercriminals are bypassing the guardrails that are supposed to keep AI models from carrying out criminal activities, according to researchers. We've seen the misuse of AI models by cybercriminals growing rapidly over the past several years, shaping a new era of digital threats. Early on,...

MalGEN: a Generative Agent Framework for Modeling Malicious Software in Cybersecurity

The dual use nature of Large Language Models LLMs presents a growing challenge in cybersecurity. While LLM enhances automation and reasoning for defenders, they also introduce new risks, particularly their potential to be misused for generating evasive, AI crafted malware. Despite this emerging...

Mal-D2GAN: Double-Detector Based GAN for Malware Generation

Machine learning ML has been developed to detect malware in recent years. Most researchers focused their efforts on improving the detection performance but ignored the robustness of the ML models. In addition, many machine learning algorithms are very vulnerable to intentional attacks. To solve...

AI Could Generate 10,000 Malware Variants, Evading Detection in 88% of Case

Cybersecurity researchers have found that it's possible to use large language models LLMs to generate new variants of malicious JavaScript code at scale in a manner that can better evade detection. "Although LLMs struggle to create malware from scratch, criminals can easily use them to rewrite or...

fireELF - Fileless Linux Malware Framework

fireELF is a opensource fileless linux malware framework thats crossplatform and allows users to easily create and manage payloads. By default is comes with 'memfdcreate' which is a new way to run linux elf executables completely from memory, without having the binary touch the harddrive. Feature...