Russian speaking hacking group now shifting focus to government targets

The focus is now on stealth, long-term persistence, and cyber-espionage against government and similar organizations.
The Hacker News

Tomiris Shifts to Public-Service Implants for Stealthier C2 in Attacks on Government Targets

Tomiris is using public-service C2 implants and new phishing chains to stealthily deploy multi-language malware across targeted government networks.
Security Boulevard

Russian-Backed Threat Group Uses SocGholish to Target U.S. Company

The Russian state-sponsored group behind the RomCom malware family used the SocGholish loader for the first time to launch an attack on a U.S.-based civil engineering firm, continuing its targeting of ...

AI is reportedly 'democratising' cybercrime by making it easier than ever for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack ransomware and other malicious code

Apparently, there are a couple of LLMs which are gaining traction with cybercriminals. That's led researchers at Palo Alto ...
Techzine Europe

Malicious LLMs lower the threshold for cybercrime

Two LLM platforms, WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT, demonstrate that AI tools are becoming increasingly accessible to cybercriminals.

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools

Unrestricted large language models (LLMs) like WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT are improving their capabilities to generate malicious ...