GachiLoader adopts AI skill lure
AI skills are threat actors' newest and most dangerous lures.
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Threats
The Attacks Hiding in Your Identity Logs
Every identity-driven attack leaves behind traces. The problem isn’t the absence of signals. It’s that most organizations aren’t really looking…
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The identity nobody is watching
Your next serious breach will likely start with an identity that nobody was watching.
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Weaponizing autonomy: The rise of malicious AI agent skills
Imagine your AI coding assistant quietly reading your AWS credentials while helping you refactor a function. Or silently downloading a…
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Why identity-based threats are the new battleground for cybersecurity
Cybersecurity has changed. The question is: has your defense strategy changed with it?
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CastleRAT attack first to abuse Deno JavaScript runtime to evade enterprise security
ThreatDown has discovered a sophisticated new infection chain that installs the CastleRAT malware without leaving a trace on disk.
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100% malware detection at 1.7% CPU: how ThreatDown stops Mac info stealers
Mac info stealers like AMOS and Poseidon can harvest credentials in seconds. ThreatDown delivers 100% detection against the Objective-See malware…
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Machine-scale cybercrime: The 2026 State of Malware report
The ThreatDown 2026 State of Malware report captures a unique moment of transition—when the established world of human-driven intrusion meets…
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AI-orchestrated cyberattacks
Sophisticated attackers once struggled to scale. Now, experienced groups can scale by adding agents to their workforce, and inexperienced or…
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Tracking remote ransomware attacks at their source
When ransomware strikes, many are watching it happen through the wrong lens.
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Inside EDR-Freeze: How ThreatDown stops the attack before it spreads
EDR-Freeze exploits legitimate Windows functionality to suspend security software, and it works entirely in user-mode using native Windows components.
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How NIST is going to secure AI
AI is becoming as commonplace as spreadsheets in business, but security is lagging behind. NIST aims to fix that.
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AI has “fully defeated” most of the ways people authenticate
In a recent interview at the Federal Reserve, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of "a significant impending fraud crisis" driven…
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Atomic Stealer now using clipboard hijacking to target Macs
The infamous ClickFix campaign is targeting Mac users with Atomic Stealer (AMOS).
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Ransomware in April 2025—RansomHub is gone
While DaVita and Marks & Spencer reel from devastating attacks, the most dominant ransomware group of the last year has…
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Ransomware in March 2025
March 2025 saw a huge number of ransomware attacks, and the Pennsylvania State Education Association quietly notify over 500,000 current…
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Why YOUR software is the new malware
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning away from malware and shifting to a stealthier approach known as Living Off the Land (LOTL).
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Ransomware in February 2025—Cl0p and RansomHub run riot
The Cl0p ransomware group posted data on 335 victims in February 2025, by far the largest one month total any…
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Phishing, now available on your favorite app store!
Although we tend to associate phishing attacks with emails, on Android they often come from innocent-looking apps.
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