The Black Basta ransomware group and its affiliates compromised hundreds of organizations worldwide between April 2022 and May 2024, according to a new report from several US government agencies.

The platform, called Inspect, is set to pave the way for the safe innovation of AI models, according to the AI Safety Institute and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DIST).

Cybersecurity experts at the RSA Conference highlighted the growing sophistication of cyber threats, including the expanding attack surface, identity-based attacks leveraging AI-generated deepfakes, and the use of generative AI to create malware.

Security researchers have discovered a major new Russian disinformation campaign using generative AI (GenAI) to “plagiarize and weaponize” content from major news organizations, in a bid to influence Western voters.

Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Cyprus, and Czechia have collaborated to dismantle an online cryptocurrency scam, resulting in the arrest of six Austrians allegedly behind the scheme.

A report by Mitek Systems reveals that banks are facing a significant challenge with fraud, including traditional issues like money laundering and account takeover, as well as newer threats such as AI-generated fraud and deepfakes.

Only a third of organizations are adequately addressing security, privacy and ethical risks with AI, despite surging use of these technologies in the workplace, according to new ISACA research.

In a new report, Cato observed that the Log4J exploit represented 30% of the outbound vulnerability exploitations and 18% of the inbound vulnerability exploitations detected in the first quarter of 2024.

North Korean threat actors, specifically the Kimsuky group, are exploiting weakly configured DMARC protocols to spoof the email addresses of legitimate journalists, academics, and other experts in East Asian affairs.

Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a 24-year-old Ukrainian national and affiliate of the notorious REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group, has been sentenced to 13 years and 7 months in prison by a US court.