When Hackers Wear Suits: Protecting Your Team from Insider Cyber Threats

Written by Erin Bortz, Manager of Global Sales and Corporate Recruiting at Huntress In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, a new and insidious danger is emerging, shifting focus from external attacks to internal infiltration. Hackers are now impersonating seasoned cybersecurity and IT professionals to gain privileged access within organizations. These aren’t just phishing attempts; they […]

Japanese beer giant Asahi says data breach hit 1.5 million people

Asahi Group Holdings, Japan’s largest beer producer, has finished the investigation into the September cyberattack and found that the incident has impacted up to 1.9 million individuals. The type of data compromised in the attack includes full names, genders, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, and could be used in phishing attempts. The incident was first disclosed […]

Public GitLab repositories exposed more than 17,000 secrets

After scanning all 5.6 million public repositories on GitLab Cloud, a security engineer discovered more than 17,000 exposed secrets across over 2,800 unique domains. Luke Marshall used the TruffleHog open-source tool to check the code in the repositories for sensitive credentials like API keys, passwords, and tokens. The researcher previously scanned Bitbucket, where he found 6,212 secrets spread over 2.6 million […]

French Football Federation discloses data breach after cyberattack

The French Football Federation (FFF) disclosed a data breach on Friday after attackers used a compromised account to gain access to administrative management software used by football clubs. After detecting the unauthorized access, FFF’s security team disabled the compromised account and reset all user passwords across the system. However, before they were detected and evicted from […]

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools

Unrestricted large language models (LLMs) like WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT are improving their capabilities to generate malicious code, delivering functional scripts for ransomware encryptors and lateral movement. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit42 experimented with the two LLMs that are seeing increased adoption among cybercriminals through paid subscriptions or free local instances. The WormGPT model originally […]