Engadget

Chinese hackers reportedly targeting government entities using 'Brickstorm' malware

Hackers with links to China reportedly successfully infiltrated a number of unnamed government and tech entities using advanced malware. As reported by Reuters, cybersecurity agencies from the US and ...
CSOonline

Chinese cyberspies target VMware vSphere for long-term persistence

CISA and the NSA warn that Chinese state-sponsored attackers are deploying malware dubbed BRICKSTORM on VMware servers to perform lateral movement inside victim networks. Chinese state-sponsored ...
Nextgov

China is using advanced ‘Brickstorm’ malware against government and IT orgs, US assesses

The NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have assessed that China is using an advanced malware family to access government agencies and technology companies, according to ...
PE Hub

CVC to buy Smiths Detection in £2bn carve-out deal

The company will be acquired from Smiths Group The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026 Smiths Detection employs 3,400 people CVC has entered into an agreement to acquire Smiths ...
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 ...
PC Gamer

This sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves

If you're anything like me, you keep a sharp eye on your Windows Defender updates to make sure your PC is protected against the latest threats. However, while Defender is remarkably good at catching ...
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 ...
PC Gamer

Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Google has recently warned "adversaries are no longer ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

New Herodotus Android malware fakes human typing to avoid detection

A new Android malware family, Herodotus, uses random delay injection in its input routines to mimic human behavior on mobile devices and evade timing-based detection by security software. Herodotus, ...