Tag: #cyberespionage
North Korean hackers have used ChatGPT in a phishing campaign, generating a fake South Korean military ID to deceive victims. The Kimsuky group, linked to Pyongyang, was behind this attack, which shows how generative AI in cybercrime is expanding beyond text generation. The incident underlines a worrying trend: AI cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, […]
In a deeply concerning case of prolonged cyberespionage, the Chinese state-linked hacking group Weaver Ant (a subgroup of the larger APT41) was discovered to have infiltrated a telecom provider’s internal network for more than four years, from 2019 to mid-2023. The hackers deployed custom malware, including xDealer and LionsBot, targeting both Windows and Linux environments […]
A new kind of Hyper-V ransomware attack is raising alarms across the cybersecurity landscape. RedCurl, a corporate cyber-espionage group known for stealthy attacks since 2018, has pivoted to deploying custom ransomware called QWCrypt. Unlike common ransomware campaigns focused solely on ransom payments, RedCurl’s approach fuses espionage and extortion—targeting Hyper-V environments that form the backbone of […]