Unforeseen outcomes of innovation

The high-severity vulnerability could enable denial of service, code execution and privilege escalation.

Such unprecedented increase in cyberattack prevalence has been fueled by increasingly sophisticated threat actors and advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, an analysis from Check Point revealed.

Within 25 minutes of having received his Mac workstation, the North Korean operative — who used VPN to conceal the location of the IT mule farm where the workstation was sent — leveraged Raspberry Pi to facilitate malware downloads, session history file alterations, file transfers, and unauthorized software execution.