Amazon has prevented more than 1,800 suspected North Korean operatives from securing employment since April 2024, as the Pyongyang regime continues efforts to place IT workers in remote roles at Western companies to generate revenue for the regime. Amazon's Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Stephen Schmidt, revealed the figures in a LinkedIn post, noting a 27% quarter-on-quarter increase in the number of detected DPRK-affiliated applications this year. The aim, he said, is for o
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The US Secret Service on 23 September reported it has foiled what appears to be a sophisticated plot for cyber-espionage and disruption of mobile networks in New York at a time when more than 100 heads of state and governments and foreign ministers are in the city for the UN General Assembly’s leaders’ session.
In a statement, the Secret Service said that the agency recovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites in New York tristate area. The agency s
In a recent warning to global organizations, cybersecurity firm Netscout has unveiled its latest DDoS Threat Intelligence Report for the first half of 2025, highlighting an unrelenting barrage of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks that are increasingly sophisticated, geopolitically motivated, and amplified by artificial intelligence. Netscout's report, titled "Digital Aftershocks: Collateral Damage from DDoS Attacks," documents over 8 million attacks worldwide, with more than 3.2 mill
A joint study by Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) and Safe Security has examined 2,800 ransomware incidents and found that a staggering 80.83%, or more than 2,272 attacks, were driven by artificial intelligence. This statistic is not theoretical; it's based on comprehensive, real-world data collected during 2023–2024.
The Rethinking the Cybersecurity Arms Race working paper paints a vivid picture of how AI is transforming attack methods. Adversaries are no longer relying on manual orchestration
Hackers, criminals, and spies are rapidly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), and considerable evidence is emerging of a substantial acceleration in AI-enabled crime. This includes evidence of the use of AI tools for financial crime, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS), child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and romance scams. In all these areas, criminal use of AI is already augmenting revenue generation and exacerbating financial and personal harms. Scammers and social engineers,
