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The perils of AI get a lot of airtime, but what are the upsides? This issue of AI Pulse looks at some of the good AI can bring, from strengthening cybersecurity to driving health breakthroughs—and how the coming wave of agentic AI is going to take those possibilities to a whole new level. Read More HERE…
In the final weeks before November’s U.S. election, cybersecurity experts were calling October 2024 the “month of mischief”—a magnet for bad actors looking to disrupt the democratic process through AI-generated misinformation. This issue of AI Pulse looks at what can be done about deepfakes and other AI scams, and why defense-in-depth is the only way to go. Read More HERE…
The landscape of cybersecurity is continuously evolving, with new threats emerging and the roles and responsibilities of security professionals constantly adapting. Read More HERE…
Detection and response will be critical for the U.S. Government to modernize security operations and stay ahead of cyber-attacks. Read More HERE…
In the second part of this series, we will examine how attackers can trigger vulnerabilities by sending control messages masquerading as user traffic to cross over from user plane to control plane. Read More HERE…
This entry delves into threat actors’ intricate methods to implant malicious payloads within seemingly legitimate applications and codebases. Read More HERE…
Crafted packets from cellular devices such as mobile phones can exploit faulty state machines in the 5G core to attack cellular infrastructure. Smart devices that critical industries such as defense, utilities, and the medical sectors use for their daily operations depend on the speed, efficiency, and productivity brought by 5G. This entry describes CVE-2021-45462 as a potential use case to deploy a denial-of-service (DoS) attack to private 5G networks. Read More HERE…
The Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service (MARS) team discovered a new, fully undetected Android banking trojan, dubbed MMRat, that has been targeting mobile users in Southeast Asia since late June 2023. Read More HERE…
Trend Micro’s Mobile Application Reputation Service (MARS) team discovered two new related Android malware families involved in cryptocurrency-mining and financially-motivated scam campaigns targeting Android users. Read More HERE…
An overview of the Lemon Group’s use of preinfected mobile devices, and how this scheme is potentially being developed and expanded to other internet of things (IoT) devices. This research was presented in full at the Black Hat Asia 2023 Conference in Singapore in May 2023. Read More HERE…