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Top 10 Threat Actors: Their Tactics & Motivations
The world of cybercrime has its own cast of characters, each with a unique script. Some are patient spies, like state-sponsored groups that move silently within a network for months to gather intelligence. Others are loud and aggressive, like ransomware gangs that operate like ruthless businesses...
New CastleLoader Variant Linked to 469 Infections Across Critical Sectors
ANY.RUN report reveals how the new CastleLoader malware targets US government agencies using stealthy ClickFix tricks and memory-based attacks to bypass security...
Multi-Agent Framework for Threat Mitigation and Resilience in AI-Based Systems
Machine learning ML underpins foundation models in finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, making them targets for data poisoning, model extraction, prompt injection, automated jailbreaking, and preference-guided black-box attacks that exploit model comparisons. Larger models can be mor...
BEACON: A Unified Behavioral-Tactical Framework for Explainable Cybercrime Analysis with Large Language Models
Cybercrime increasingly exploits human cognitive biases in addition to technical vulnerabilities, yet most existing analytical frameworks focus primarily on operational aspects and overlook psychological manipulation. This paper proposes BEACON, a unified dual-dimension framework that integrates...
3 OAuth TTPs Seen This Month — and How to Detect Them with Entra ID Logs
How OAuth tokens, JWT fields and Entra sign-in logs reveal attacker behavior, and how to turn those signals into reliable detections...
CISA and Partners Release Advisory Update on Akira Ransomware
Today, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, Department of Health and Human Services, and international partners, released an updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory, StopRansomware:...
Malicious code in lookingan-nalako63 (npm)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 1e427a5a8c68dda2a91319a38e74a6b347b779c7207ef1576882d29621bc884a This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...
On Hacking Back
Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines thus: "A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a counterattack designed to proactively engage with, disable, or collect evidence about an attacker. Although hack backs can take on various forms, they are--b...
Inside LockBit: Technical, Behavioral, and Financial Anatomy of a Ransomware Empire
LockBit has evolved from an obscure Ransomware-as-a-Service newcomer in 2019 to the most prolific ransomware franchise of 2024. Leveraging a recently leaked MySQL dump of the gang's management panel, this study offers an end-to-end reconstruction of LockBit's technical, behavioral, and financial...
Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics
Organizations in Ukraine have been targeted by threat actors of Russian origin with an aim to siphon sensitive data and maintain persistent access to compromised networks. The activity, according to a new report from the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, targeted a large business...
Victim As a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers
Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have become increasingly public losses at least $75B by one recent study. However, because of their long-term conversationa...
The Rise of Collaborative Tactics Among China-aligned Cyber Espionage Campaigns
Trend™ Research examines the complex collaborative relationship between China-aligned APT groups via the new “Premier Pass-as-a-Service” model, exemplified by the recent activities of Earth Estries and Earth Naga...
The Attribution Story of WhisperGate: An Academic Perspective
This paper explores the challenges of cyberattack attribution, specifically APTs, applying the case study approach for the WhisperGate cyber operation of January 2022 executed by the Russian military intelligence service GRU and targeting Ukrainian government entities. The study provides a detail...
SEO spam and hidden links: how to protect your website and your reputation
When analyzing the content of websites in an attempt to determine what category it belongs to, we sometimes get an utterly unexpected result. It could be the official page of a metal structures manufacturer or online flower shop, or, say, a law firm website, with completely neutral content, but o...
Towards Proactive Defense against Cyber Cognitive Attacks
Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations DIs to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication of these threats. Prior studies primaril...
Code Agent Can Be an End-To-End System Hacker: Benchmarking Real-World Threats of Computer-Use Agent
Computer-use agent CUA frameworks, powered by large language models LLMs or multimodal LLMs MLLMs, are rapidly maturing as assistants that can perceive context, reason, and act directly within software environments. Among their most critical applications is operating system OS control. As CUAs in...
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Red Teaming Tactics and Techniques...
Unmasking The Gentlemen Ransomware: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Revealed
An analysis of the Gentlemen ransomware group, which employs advanced, adaptive tactics, techniques, and procedure to target critical industries worldwide...
Bi-Level Game-Theoretic Planning of Cyber Deception for Cognitive Arbitrage
Cognitive vulnerabilities shape human decision-making and arise primarily from two sources: 1 cognitive capabilities, which include disparities in knowledge, education, expertise, or access to information, and 2 cognitive biases, such as rational inattention, confirmation bias, and base rate...