Cobalt Group is a financially motivated threat group that has primarily targeted financial institutions. The group has conducted intrusions to steal money via targeting ATM systems, card processing, payment systems and SWIFT systems. Cobalt Group has mainly targeted banks in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The group has been known to target organizations in order to use their access to then compromise additional victims. Reporting indicates there may be links between Cobalt Group and both the malware Carbanak and the group Carbanak, Anunak.
The Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) group, tracked as TAG-195, has resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating continued development and a shift towards a more flexible, modular approach to evade de…
This article discusses the evolution of Network Detection and Response (NDR) systems, particularly with the integration of agentic AI. It highlights how early NDR deployments suffered from a "noisy" alert firehose due to…
