DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code

DeepSeek's flagship R1 model is capable of generating a working keylogger and basic ransomware code, just as long as a techie ...
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

Stealing advanced nations’ Mac malware isn’t hard. Here’s how one hacker did it

SAN FRANCISCO—Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors’. At the RSA Security conference this week, a former ...
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 ...
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 ...
ZDNet

A question of security: What is obfuscation and how does it work?

With malware now so common and successful cyberattacks offering potentially high -- albeit criminal -- returns, there is little need for garden-variety hackers to learn how to develop exotic, custom ...
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 ...
Sify.com

Malware with AI-Powered Code Mutations: Google Sounds the Alarm!

Google has identified early signs of malware that can rewrite its own code using AI, a mutation-driven threat that could outpace today’s cybersecurity defenses. A new kind of cyber-threat is emerging, ...
CSOonline

Polymorphic AI malware exists — but it’s not what you think

We are either at the dawn of AI-driven malware that rewrites itself on the fly, or we are seeing vendors and threat actors exaggerate its capabilities. Recent Google and MIT Sloan reports reignited ...
VentureBeat

Intezer raises $15 million to identify malware by analyzing reused code

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Intezer, a cybersecurity startup that detects and classifies cyber ...
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 ...
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 ...