Targeting high-precision floating-point arithmetic operations in engineering modeling software, Fast16 may now be the earliest known state-linked cyber-sabotage framework. Designed to cripple Iran’s ...

Two curious Malware analysts SentinelLABs suggests a sophisticated cyber sabotage tool was in use years earlier than previously believed, potentially rewriting the timeline of modern cyber warfare.

A new Lua-based malware, called LucidRook, is being used in spear-phishing campaigns targeting non-governmental organizations and universities in Taiwan. Cisco Talos researchers attribute the malware ...

A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy ...

From smart but insecure door locks to Nvidia’s deepfake keynote, there are currently numerous forms of attack that are extremely dangerous. The following 9 attacks stand out in particular and could ...

PCWorld covers emerging cybersecurity threats including AI-powered ransomware, deepfake scams, malicious browser extensions targeting crypto wallets, and vulnerabilities in smart devices and printers.

Roblox executors may look like harmless tools that unlock new features or cheats, but they come with serious hidden risks. Many of these tools are actually vehicles for malware, targeting young ...

PromptLock is only a prototype of LLM-orchestrated ransomware, but hackers already use AI in file encryption and extortion attacks. AI-powered ransomware is here, although it is not the recently ...

Added Ascon-128. Ascon offers authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD), hash, XOF, MAC and PRF. Ascon has won the NIST Lightweight Cryptography competition (2023) and the CAESAR ...

In the era of vibe coding, cybercriminals are upping the stakes and using artificial intelligence (AI) to extort victims and exfiltrate data. And ransomware is no exception. Cybercriminals have long ...

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s ...