The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory that the Royal ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 350 organizations worldwide since September 2022. […]

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations.
“This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said in a report last week.
“The observed activity aligns with geopolitical goals of

ChatGPT: Productivity tool, great for writing poems, and… a security risk?! In this article, we show how threat actors can exploit ChatGPT, but also how defenders can use it for leveling up their game.
ChatGPT is the most swiftly growing consumer application to date. The extremely popular generative AI chatbot has the ability to generate human-like, coherent and contextually relevant responses.

I recently returned from the DEF CON 2023 conference in Las Vegas and amongst many of the briefings that I attended the talk by Ron Ben Yizhak was particularly interesting.  His talk was called “#NoFilter – Abusing Windows Filtering Platform for Privilege Escalation”.   Whilst privilege escalation attacks are fairly common against the Windows platform…

Cyber attacks are not going away anytime soon and in the wake of the Optus, Medibank and more recent Latitude Financial breach, the demand for cyber insurance has increased, despite premiums soaring as much as 300%. Many small to medium size businesses are feeling the affect and may now find it impossible to obtain cyber…