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Surging Hype: An Update on the Rising Abuse of GenAI

The cybercriminal abuse of generative AI (GenAI) is developing at a blazing pace. After only a few weeks since we reported on Gen AI and how it is used for cybercrime, new key developments have emerged. Threat actors are proliferating their offerings on criminal large language models (LLMs) and deepfake technologies, ramping up the volume and extending their reach.

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Back to the Hype: An Update on How Cybercriminals Are Using GenAI

Generative AI continues to be misused and abused by malicious individuals. In this article, we dive into new criminal LLMs, criminal services with ChatGPT-like capabilities, and deepfakes being offered on criminal sites.

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Ransomware Spotlight: LockBit

The LockBit intrusion set, tracked by Trend Micro as Water Selkie, has one of the most active ransomware operations today. With LockBit’s strong malware capabilities and affiliate program, organizations should keep abreast of its machinations to effectively spot risks and defend against attacks.

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Observability Exposed: Exploring Risks in Cloud-Native Metrics

Container Advisor (cAdvisor) is an open-source monitoring tool for containers that is widely used in cloud services. It logs and monitors metrics like network input/output (I/O), disk I/O, and CPU usage. However, misconfigured deployments might inadvertently expose sensitive information, including environment variables such as Prometheus metrics. In this article, we share our findings of the risks we have uncovered and the vulnerable configurations users need to be aware of.

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Ransomware Spotlight: 8Base

Despite positioning themselves as penetration testers, 8Base ransomware threat actors profit off their victims that are significantly comprised of small businesses. In this feature, we investigate how the gang operates to gain insights on how organizations can protect systems better from compromises that could result in financial loss.  

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Ransomware Spotlight: Rhysida

The threat actors behind the Rhysida ransomware targeted multiple industries by posing as a cybersecurity team that offered to help its victims identify security weaknesses in their networks and systems. Although the group’s activity was first observed back in May 2023, its leak site was established as early as March 2023. Like other ransomware groups, it employs double extortion tactics to pressure its victims into paying a ransom demand in Bitcoin.

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A Deep Dive Into Kubernetes Threat Modeling

This report explores the aspects and considerations required to properly perform threat modeling within a Kubernetes environment, a piece of technology that many organizations worldwide rely on and a leading container orchestration platform.

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Ransomware Spotlight: Akira

This report spotlights Akira, a novel ransomware family with highly experienced and skilled operators at its helm.

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Hype vs. Reality: AI in the Cybercriminal Underground

This report discusses the state of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the cybercriminal underground: how cybercriminals are using ChatGPT, how they're adding ChatGPT features to their criminal products, and how they’re trying to remove censorship to ask ChatGPT anything.

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A Closer Exploration of Residential Proxies and CAPTCHA-Breaking Services

This article, the final part of a two-part series, focuses on the details of our technical findings and analyses of select residential proxies and CAPTCHA-solving services.

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