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Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data, and our position as an innovator has been reaffirmed in this 4th consecutive year being a Leader and furthest on Vision in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions. This recognition validates our commitment to helping customers achieve complete cyber resilience.

As technology continues to evolve, there is a growing concern about the potential for large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, to be used for criminal purposes. In this blog we will discuss two such LLM engines that were made available recently on underground forums, WormGPT and FraudGPT. If criminals were to possess their own ChatGPT-like tool, the implications for cybersecurity, social engineering, and overall digital safety could be significant.

Today we are excited to share that Rubrik has entered into an agreement to acquire Laminar, the leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), to realize a common vision to secure the world’s data. The combination will create the industry’s first offering to combine cyber recovery and cyber posture and deliver complete cyber resilience across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS.

Newly-released research reveals the eye-watering costs that the manufacturing sector has suffered in recent years at the hands of ransomware. The analysis, by Comparitech, looked at 478 confirmed ransomware attacks on manufacturing companies between 2018 and July 2023, in an attempt to determine their true cost.

Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a new version of the Rilide Stealer extension targeting Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera. This malware uses a creative way to work around the Chrome Extension Manifest V3 from Google which is aimed at blocking the installation of malicious extensions for chromium browsers.

Researchers at CYFIRMA warn that the Bahamut threat actor is using a malicious Android app to deliver malware. “The suspected Android malware, known initially as ‘CoverIm’ was delivered to victims via WhatsApp, and was found to be disguised as a dummy chatting application named ‘SafeChat,’” the researchers write.

A US hospital closed two years after a ransomware incident, highlighting that the health sector continues to be under threat.

Since Redis is becoming increasingly popular around the world, we decided to investigate attacks on the Redis instance. We didn’t have to wait long for the first results of the Honeypot. The trap caught an activity about which the Western world does not hear too often while analyzing SkidMap. More importantly, this variant turned out to be a new, improved, dangerous variation of the malware. Its level of sophistication surprised us quite a bit.

Realst malware targets macOS Sonoma ahead of public release, infostealer malware sees exponential growth, and new Nitrogen malware spreads via Google Ads for ransomware attacks.