Insider threats are among the hardest attacks to detect because they come from people who already have legitimate access. Security teams know the risk well, but they often lack the data needed to train systems that can spot subtle patterns of malicious behavior. A research team has introduced Chimera, a system that uses LLM agents to simulate both normal and malicious employee activity in enterprise settings. The goal is to solve one of the main … More →
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UK organizations with sponsor licenses are now targets in a credential-harvesting phishing campaign. This campaign impersonates the UK Home Office and mimics the Sponsor Management System (SMS) login to steal usernames and passwords. Once attackers gain access, they can issue fraudulent Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS), exploit sensitive immigration workflows, or extort compromised users.
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DDoS attacks were once crude instruments—digital sledgehammers that would flood a target with massive amounts of traffic until it crashed. While these brute-force assaults remain common, a new generation of attacks is emerging with surgical precision, powered by artificial intelligence that makes them faster, smarter, and exponentially harder to defend against. But this technological arms […]
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