October 2023

Everest cybercriminals offer corporate insiders cold, hard cash for remote access 12/10/2023 at 15:47 By Connor Jones The ransomware gang changes identities more than Jason Bourne The Everest ransomware group is stepping up its efforts to purchase access to corporate networks directly from employees amid what researchers believe to be a major transition for the

ShellBot Uses Hex IPs to Evade Detection in Attacks on Linux SSH Servers 12/10/2023 at 15:01 By The threat actors behind ShellBot are leveraging IP addresses transformed into its hexadecimal notation to infiltrate poorly managed Linux SSH servers and deploy the DDoS malware. “The overall flow remains the same, but the download URL used by

Starlink starts advertising Direct to Cell satellite phone service as coming in ‘2024’ 12/10/2023 at 14:47 By Dan Robinson Slated to work with existing 4G phones, though space rivals still trying to shoot it down SpaceX’s Starlink is advertising a Direct to Cell satellite phone service due to start next year and which it claims

How to Guard Your Data from Exposure in ChatGPT 12/10/2023 at 14:31 By ChatGPT has transformed the way businesses generate textual content, which can potentially result in a quantum leap in productivity. However, Generative AI innovation also introduces a new dimension of data exposure risk, when employees inadvertently type or paste sensitive business data into

Microsoft Defender Thwarts Large-Scale Akira Ransomware Attack 12/10/2023 at 14:31 By Microsoft on Wednesday said that a user containment feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped thwart a “large-scale remote encryption attempt” made by Akira ransomware actors targeting an unknown industrial organization in early June 2023. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team is tracking the operator as

US construction giant unearths concrete evidence of cyberattack 12/10/2023 at 14:02 By Paul Kunert Simpson Manufacturing yanks systems offline, warns of ongoing disruption Simpson Manufacturing Company yanked some tech systems offline this week to contain a cyberattack it expects will “continue to cause disruption.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cilium leaves incubator, gets the nod from Cloud Native Computing Foundation 12/10/2023 at 13:17 By Richard Speed eBPF project jumps from ‘just a network plugin’ moves to begin wide adoption The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has awarded a graduated sash to Cilium, a validation of the maturity and future of the eBPF project.… This