HeLLFIRE MISSILES used to strike terrorist hideouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now they rain down on the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Small boats and their crews, alleged drug-traffickers, ...

SonicWall is warning admins that recent brute force attacks on its firewall’s API service for cloud backup could have exposed backup configuration files stored in its cloud portal. Affected are ...

BruteForceAI is an open-source penetration testing tool designed to enhance brute-force and password spraying techniques. Unlike conventional tools, it uses artificial intelligence to streamline the ...

Abstract: We demonstrate MITra, a system for synthesizing Multi-Instance graph Traversal algorithms that traverse from multiple source vertices simultaneously over a single thread. Underlying MITra is ...

Another name for brute force is exhaustive search. In these algorithms you consider every possible solution in the solution domain to find the optimal solution. Depending on the type of problem that ...

A coordinated campaign of brute-force attacks using hundreds of unique IP addresses targets Apache Tomcat Manager interfaces exposed online. Tomcat is a popular open-source web server widely used by ...

Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it's observing brute-force login attempts against PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, days after threat hunters warned of a surge in suspicious login scanning activity ...

“The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Recently leaked chat logs from the Black Basta ransomware ...