CTI Roundup: Ransomware Spikes in September, Updates on Octo Tempest & Quasar RAT
Octo Tempest threatens global organizations, ransomware activity spikes in September, and Quasar RAT evades detection with DLL sideloading.
Octo Tempest threatens global organizations, ransomware activity spikes in September, and Quasar RAT evades detection with DLL sideloading.
In the past month, the Netskope Threat Labs team observed a considerable increase of SharePoint usage to deliver malware caused by an attack campaign abusing Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to deliver a malware named DarkGate. DarkGate (also known as MehCrypter) is a malware that was first reported by enSilo (now Fortinet) in 2018 and has been used in multiple campaigns in the past months.
Unlike in the 1800s when a safety brake increased the public’s acceptance of elevators, artificial intelligence (AI) was accepted by the public much before guardrails came to be. “ChatGPT had 1 million users within the first five days of being available,” shares Forbes.