UPDATE 9-5-25: The malware, referred to in the story as PromptLock, was found to be part of research being done by the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. ESET discovered the malware the ...

UPDATE (September 3 rd, 2025): ESET Research has been contacted by the authors of an academic study, Ransomware 3.0: Self-Composing and LLM-Orchestrated, whose research prototype closely resembles the ...

XWorm resurfaces with versions 6.0–6.5, now maintained by alias XCoderTools Malware includes RAT, ransomware, data theft, DoS, and over 35 modular plugins Trellix reports rising VirusTotal samples; ...

Torrance, California--(Newsfile Corp. - November 21, 2023) - Criminal IP, a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has integrated its IP address and URL scans into ...

The rise of Funksec’s ransomware, which focuses on extortion through file encryption and data theft, shows how LLMs are empowering ransomware groups. Threat reports for December showed a newcomer to ...

The LockBit ransomware gang has created encryptors targeting Macs for the first time, likely becoming the first major ransomware operation to ever specifically target macOS. The new ransomware ...

Two recently identified ransomware gangs are using payloads that contain almost identical code, suggesting that the groups’ affiliates are using shared infrastructure. The groups, named HellCat and ...