threat actors

Threat actors are individuals or groups who engage in malicious cyber activities, such as ransomware operations, data theft, and system infiltration, often for financial or ideological gain.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to their increasing focus on exploiting AI tools and assets for more sophisticated and damaging attacks.

Latest on threat actors

• Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors
• Threat actors are coming for your AI assets to operationalize their use of AI
• FBI Publishes First-Ever Cyber Strategy, With Focus on Disrupting Threat Actors
• AI Coding Tools Now a Prime Target for Threat Actors, Google Warns
• Threat Actors Abuse Cursor Agent AI to Assist Ransomware Operations
• AI a 'force multiplier' for low-skilled threat actors: 4 ways organizations should respond
• attackers leverage AI to enhance attack speed and scale globally.
• Who audits the economic incentive model that turns a breach notification into a profit center for threat actors?
• Threat actors manipulated ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview by seeding the web with malicious links and data.
• Security teams have spent two years publishing research on Unicode obfuscation techniques — essentially handing threat actors a playbook
• threat actors are using invisible Unicode characters to evade spam filters by splitting the word "funding" in malicious emails
• Forescout published the findings to highlight emerging risks as large language models become more accessible to threat actors.

Connections

33 entities linked to threat actors across the news graph.