Krebs on Security

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The security company Synthient currently sees more than 2 million infected Kimwolf devices distributed globally but with ...

New SantaStealer malware is after your passwords and crypto

New SantaStealer malware reportedly threatens holiday shoppers with password theft. This Christmas-themed info-stealer ...

MacSync Stealer variant finds a way to bypass Apple malware protections

We’ve recently seen how ChatGPT was used to trick Mac users into installing MacStealer, and now a different tactic ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Malware Manipulates AI Detection in Latest npm Package Breach

A new attempt to influence AI-driven security scanners has been identified in a malicious npm package. The package, eslint-plugin-unicorn-ts-2 version 1.2.1, appeared to be a TypeScript variant of the ...
Dark Reading

How Malware Authors Are Incorporating LLMs to Evade Detection

Threat actors are testing malware that incorporates large language models (LLMs) to create malware that can evade detection by security tools. In an analysis published earlier this month, Google's ...
Kotaku

Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC

Microsoft’s push to make Windows 11 a fully AI PC operating system continues, with the company planning to roll out new AI agents that can complete tasks and make changes on your behalf. But the ...
The Conversation

How do ‘AI detection’ tools actually work? And are they effective?

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. Aaron J. Snoswell receives research ...
USA Today

A simple blood test can detect 50 types of cancer: We explain

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
Ars Technica

5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows ...
CSOonline

Google researchers detect first operational use of LLMs in active malware campaigns

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reports that new malware strains use LLMs mid-execution to generate, rewrite, and obfuscate malicious code in real time. Threat actors are now actively deploying ...
Android Authority

New Android malware lags like a human to steal money from your phone (Update: Google statement)

A new Android banking Trojan called Herodotus mimics human behavior, such as random keystroke delays, to evade detection tools. The malware employs device-takeover tactics, including the abuse of ...