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In our blog, the Hornetsecurity team – especially the experts from the Security Lab – regularly report on IT security topics as well as on current innovations and events at Hornetsecurity.
Impact of AI on Cyber Security
Accepting AI's Place in Cybersecurity Businesses that embrace technology will have a bright future since the world is changing at an accelerated rate. Entertainment, new products, and business are just a few of the domains where digitization has quickened development....
Darkgate Pastejacking – Analysis and Breakdown of the Attack Chain
Introduction Vade's Threat Intelligence and Response Center - (now part of Hornetsecurity!) recently observed a number of malicious phishing campaigns distributing Darkgate using an unusual technique called Pastejacking. DarkGate is a sophisticated and evolving...
Understanding Email Security Technologies and the Power of Hornetsecurity’s Hybrid Approach
Email delivered threats such as phishing, malware attachments and Business Email Compromise (BEC) are still the number one favorite attack vector for cyber criminals. And they’re not letting up, with new flavors of attacks being tested every day. It just takes one...
Monthly Threat Report June 2024: New Threat Campaigns Involving Darkgate
Exploring the Latest Developments in Cybersecurity AI
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cybersecurity AI is already starting to have an impact on the future of cybersecurity. Currently, threat actors are using ChatGPT to create malware identify weaknesses in code, and to get around user access restrictions. Social...
Urgent training gap exposed: a quarter of organisations unprepared for cyber-attacks
New research from Hornetsecurity reveals 26% of organisations don't provide IT security training to end-users. This comes as one in four respondents had suffered a cybersecurity breach - 23% of which had occurred in the last year. Nearly four in ten (39%) reported...
Artificial Intelligence Security Threats and Countermeasures
AI: Revolutionizing Cybersecurity or Unleashing New Risks?AI is not a new term in cybersecurity. It has been a part of cyber protection for quite some time. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide term that includes numerous subfields such as machine learning (ML),...
The Future of Ransomware
Ransomware has evolved from attacks on users to attacks on organizations. In the past, if your data was encrypted by ransomware, you could restore it from your backup. Today, this is no longer the case, as ransomware can also compromise our backups. Today’s ransomware...