SophosAI at Black Hat USA ’25: Anomaly detection betrayed us, so we gave it a new job
Sophos’ Ben Gelman and Sean Bergeron will present their research on enhancing command line classification with benign anomalous data at Las Vegas
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an “influence-as-a-service” operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a
In July, DataBreaches reported that Qantas had obtained a preliminary injunction prohibiting the publication of any customer data stolen from it in a cyberattack by “persons unknown.” Those defendants were served with the injunction via email and online means. Although Qantas did not reveal who signed the ransom note, ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider didn’t hesitate……
Google has announced a new feature in its Chrome browser that lets its built-in Password Manager automatically change a user’s password when it detects the credentials to be compromised. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically,” Google’s Ashima Arora, Chirag…
Winter is coming – so it must be time for Sophos X-Ops’ report on this year’s MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations Categories: Threat Research Tags: ATT&CK, Emulation, Featured, MITRE, MUSTANG PANDA, scattered spider, Sophos X-Ops
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a Financial Trend Analysis on ransomware incidents in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data between 2022 and 2024, which totaled more than $2.1 billion in ransomware payments. “Banks and other financial institutions play a key role in protecting our economy from ransomware and other……
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers as a part of a zero-day exploit chain designed to target government, defense, and technology sectors in China. According to QiAnXin’s RedDrip Team, the threat actor has been active since 2023 and…