According to a recent report by Check Point Software, the number of publicly disclosed ransomware incidents increased approximately 60% year over year as of December. In fact, there were nearly 1,000 reported incidents in December alone. This marks a clear increase in the consistency and scale of ransomware growth.
A potential contributor to this increase is the fact that ransomware is becoming more and more of an industrialized business model. Ransomware as a service (RaaS) ecosystems allows
Cybercriminals are now able to purchase Generative AI (GenAI) account credentials on underground hacker markets along with other various illegal goods, according to new research.
The GenAI credentials include those that belong to users of ChatGPT, Quillbot, Notion, Huggingface, and Replit, among many others. Cybersecurity research teams say that the hackers are selling the credentials for roughly 400 GenAI accounts per day, usually stolen from corporate end users' computers after they've been
