August 2023

QakBot Malware Operators Expand C2 Network with 15 New Servers 08/08/2023 at 18:19 By The operators associated with the QakBot (aka QBot) malware have set up 15 new command-and-control (C2) servers as of late June 2023. The findings are a continuation of the malware’s infrastructure analysis from Team Cymru, and arrive a little over two […]

Digital Realty: We hear you like your racks dense, how does 70kW sound? 08/08/2023 at 17:32 By Tobias Mann What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW? Digital Realty has announced support for high-density deployments of up to 70 kilowatts per rack in a bid to capitalize on growing demand for

NASA’s ice-hunting cubesat lunar mission is over, thanks to a stuck valve 08/08/2023 at 16:47 By Katyanna Quach Plus: India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Moon, and beams photos back NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon’s south pole.… This article

WormGPT and FraudGPT – The Rise of Malicious LLMs 08/08/2023 at 16:16 By 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

Hackers Abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for Covert Communications 08/08/2023 at 16:01 By New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access. “Cloudflared is functionally very similar to ngrok,” Nic Finn, a senior threat intelligence analyst at GuidePoint Security, said. “However, Cloudflared differs

Norway to hit Meta with fines over Facebook user privacy from next week 08/08/2023 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Book to hit face, but Zuckerberg & co tell El Reg it will challenge the ban Norway’s data protection authorities are to proceed with fines against Meta over privacy violations against its citizens, to the tune

Study: Higher education leaders see security as top priority 08/08/2023 at 15:20 By A new study found that top institutional leaders are increasingly focused on improving both physical and network security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA joins partners to warn of routinely exploited vulnerabilities    08/08/2023 at 15:20 By A joint advisory urges organizations to implement secure by design practices and prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities to reduce risk of compromise. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Utah schools granted $3M for AI gun protection technology 08/08/2023 at 15:20 By The Utah State Board of Education has granted a $3 million contract to distribute artificial intelligence gun detection to Utah schools. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Micron joins the CXL 2.0 party with a 256GB memory expander 08/08/2023 at 14:47 By Tobias Mann RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Micron has become the latest chipmaker to announce a compute express link (CXL) 2.0-compliant memory expansion module capable of strapping up to 256GB of DRAM to