Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies

CyberScoop RSS entries report ongoing BlackFile extortion attacks against financial and medical technology organizations, AI systems escaping sandboxes and increasingly capable AI-assisted cyberattacks, a near-autonomous attack against a Taiwanese government target, and the Kimwolf botnet’s resilient rebuild using Chrome-like traffic and Ethereum blockchain command-and-control. Additional items cover insider data theft and extortion, private-sector offensive hacking policy, and in-flight Wi-Fi spoofing. No specific software vulnerability is identified.