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"Cybercriminals have access to sophisticated tools that make their attacks increasingly challenging to recognise and counter."
"Extracting URLs from QR codes requires specialised scanning capabilities that many email filters do not yet possess, leaving users more vulnerable to this type of phishing attack"
"While the world has yet to experience a cyber operation resulting in large-scale death or destruction, future offensive cyber actions may well result in significant collateral damage."
Cops claims the crook "essentially pioneered both the exploit kit and ransomware-as-a-service models".
Threat actor decrypts malicious payloads and executes them in memory, leaving 'minimal forensic traces.'
Threat actors may be preparing to attack critical infrastructure (if they haven't started already), researcher warns