The Underminr domain-fronting attack allows threat actors to modify Web requests and leverage trusted websites to cloak malicious activity.
Tag: leverage
AI, Global Security News
Weekly Update 502
It’s a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through technical ingenuity alone (although I’m sure there’s a portion of that), but primarily through good ol’ social engineering. That’s coming…
AI, Global Security News
Commvault Introduces Innovations to Advance Secure, Controlled Agentic Transformation in the Enterprise
Next-generation AI capabilities will leverage Commvault Cloud to safely activate AI and build agentic workflows with trusted data, governance, and recovery.
Endpoint, Global Security News, malware
54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 34 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security
A new analysis of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers has revealed that 54 of them leverage a technique known as bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) by abusing a total of 34 vulnerable drivers. EDR killer programs have been a common presence in ransomware intrusions as they offer a way for affiliates to neutralize…
AI, Global Security News
Researchers Trick Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes
Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers’ tendency to reason their actions and use it against the model…
Global Security News
RAMP Forum Seizure Fractures Ransomware Ecosystem
Researchers suggest defenders monitor how these malicious groups re-form and leverage the useful threat intel to guide their next moves.
AI, Apps, Global Security News
VAST Data Introduces End-to-End Fully Accelerated AI Data Stack with NVIDIA
VAST AI OS will leverage NVIDIA libraries to accelerate both compute and data services for RAG, vector search, real-time SQL, and agentic applications
Global Security News, Government & Policy
Pentagon Gives Anthropic Ultimatum and Deadline in AI Use Standoff
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to use the government’s leverage in a meeting with CEO Dario Amodei at the Pentagon.