Security Boulevard

What is Polymorphic Malware?

Malware continues to evolve, becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. One of the most challenging types is polymorphic malware — malicious software that constantly changes its code to evade ...
Ars Technica

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays and planning parties and learning about ...
Bleeping Computer

REvil ransomware returns: New malware sample confirms gang is back

The notorious REvil ransomware operation has returned amidst rising tensions between Russia and the USA, with new infrastructure and a modified encryptor allowing for more targeted attacks. In October ...
Gizmodo

ChatGPT Is Pretty Good at Writing Malware, It Turns Out

The trendy new chatbot has many skills, and one of them is writing "polymorphic" malware that will destroy your computer. Reading time 2 minutes ChatGPT, the multi-talented AI-chatbot, has another ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Are Already Exploiting ChatGPT to Write Malicious Code

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, many security experts have predicted it would only be a matter of time before cybercriminals began using the AI chatbot for writing malware and enabling ...
Bleeping Computer

A First Look at the North Korean Malware Family Tree

Security researchers have analyzed malware samples from threat actors associated with North Korea and discovered connections with tools from older unattributed campaigns. The research is spread over ...
Computer Weekly

How real and present is the malware threat from AI?

Over the last few months, we have seen a number of proof of concepts (PoCs) that demonstrate ways ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms can be used to perform many tasks involved in a typical ...
Dark Reading

How Hackers Hide Their Malware: The Basics

First of a two-part series. Antivirus (AV) and anti-malware products are among the oldest and most mature defenses against cyber attacks we have, yet new malware samples seem to make it past legacy AV ...