November 2023

Kinsing Hackers Exploit Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability to Deploy Linux Rootkits

Kinsing Hackers Exploit Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability to Deploy Linux Rootkits 21/11/2023 at 13:17 By The Kinsing threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ servers to infect Linux systems with cryptocurrency miners and rootkits. “Once Kinsing infects a system, it deploys a cryptocurrency mining script that exploits the host’s resources to mine

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Fantom Foundation awards $1.7M bounty for preventing $170M drain

Fantom Foundation awards $1.7M bounty for preventing $170M drain 21/11/2023 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph By Helen Partz In the aftermath of Fantom’s $550,000 hack in October, a security researcher found that the attacker could have stolen as much as $170 million. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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dYdX founder blames V3 central components for ‘targeted attack,’ involves FBI

dYdX founder blames V3 central components for ‘targeted attack,’ involves FBI 21/11/2023 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph By Prashant Jha dYdX founder Antonio Juliano said they’re working to find the original culprit behind the exploit, and they’d rather pay community members who help in the investigation than the exploiter. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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Capita scores £239M contract to manage mega public sector pension scheme

Capita scores £239M contract to manage mega public sector pension scheme 21/11/2023 at 12:32 By Paul Kunert Cabinet Office clearly over Capita’s breach in March that saw pension data exposed to criminals Capita has scooped up a ten-year £239 million ($298 million) contract to oversee the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) on behalf of Britain’s

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Security firm dWallet Labs flags validator vulnerability that could affect $1B in crypto

Security firm dWallet Labs flags validator vulnerability that could affect $1B in crypto 21/11/2023 at 12:02 By Cointelegraph By Ezra Reguerra Validator service provider InfStones disagreed and told Cointelegraph that “nothing close to $1 billion in assets would be at risk,” even in the worst-case scenario. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Top Ukrainian cyber officials fired after allegedly pocketing kickbacks from govt IT deals

Top Ukrainian cyber officials fired after allegedly pocketing kickbacks from govt IT deals 21/11/2023 at 11:35 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Duo probed over alleged $2M embezzlement plot Ukraine has terminated its two top cybersecurity officials as the government probes embezzlement allegations against the two men.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Malicious Apps Disguised as Banks and Government Agencies Targeting Indian Android Users

Malicious Apps Disguised as Banks and Government Agencies Targeting Indian Android Users 21/11/2023 at 11:19 By Android smartphone users in India are the target of a new malware campaign that employs social engineering lures to install fraudulent apps that are capable of harvesting sensitive data. “Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are

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CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE

CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE 21/11/2023 at 10:48 By Tobias Mann It ‘was losing a ton of money for the business,’ CEO complains Computer science teachers around the globe have been left scrambling to find an alternative IDE for their students, after Replit announced it was shuttering its Teams

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Mustang Panda Hackers Targets Philippines Government Amid South China Sea Tensions

Mustang Panda Hackers Targets Philippines Government Amid South China Sea Tensions 21/11/2023 at 10:01 By The China-linked Mustang Panda actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a Philippines government entity amid rising tensions between the two countries over the disputed South China Sea. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 attributed the adversarial collective to three campaigns

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Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure

Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure 21/11/2023 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood ‘Azure Boost’ vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types Microsoft has announced a mysterious cloud hardware upgrade called “Azure Boost” that it claims will improve the performance of all future instance types in its big blue

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Kraken co-founder slams ‘decel’ SEC, warns others should flee US

Kraken co-founder slams ‘decel’ SEC, warns others should flee US 21/11/2023 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph By Tom Mitchelhill Jesse Powell didn’t mince words when he criticized the SEC for suing his exchange, calling it the country’s “top decel.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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North Korea readies third attempt at ‘spy satellite’ launch

North Korea readies third attempt at ‘spy satellite’ launch 21/11/2023 at 08:52 By Laura Dobberstein What a coincidence! The South is just about to lauch one, too. And it probably won’t be junk like the hermit kingdom’s recent efforts North Korea has notified Japan that its third attempt to launch a satellite will take place

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PolarDNS: Open-source DNS server tailored for security evaluations

PolarDNS: Open-source DNS server tailored for security evaluations 21/11/2023 at 08:36 By Mirko Zorz PolarDNS is a specialized authoritative DNS server that allows the operator to produce custom DNS responses suitable for DNS protocol testing purposes. What can you do with PolarDNS? PolarDNS can be used for testing of: DNS resolvers (server-side) DNS clients DNS

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BNB pops after report that DOJ wants $4B settlement with Binance

BNB pops after report that DOJ wants $4B settlement with Binance 21/11/2023 at 08:04 By Cointelegraph By Brayden Lindrea BNB hit its highest price since June after Bloomberg reported the Justice Department wanted $4 billion from Binance to end its probe into the exchange. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals’ SIM cards to stay in touch

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals’ SIM cards to stay in touch 21/11/2023 at 08:04 By Simon Sharwood That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin The CEO of Australian telco Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, has resigned after deciding it was in the best interests of

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Segmentation proves crucial for fast response to security incidents

Segmentation proves crucial for fast response to security incidents 21/11/2023 at 08:04 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO at Akamai, discusses the recent surge of ransomware attacks in the U.S. and how it relates to microsegmentation. Recovery after a security breach happens 11 hours faster with segmentation.

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OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions? 21/11/2023 at 07:47 By Katyanna Quach A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer Comment  Microsoft is stuck in a hard place. It needs OpenAI co-founder and fired CEO Sam Altman back at

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Organizations’ serious commitment to software risk management pays off

Organizations’ serious commitment to software risk management pays off 21/11/2023 at 07:32 By Industry News There has been a significant decrease in vulnerabilities found in target applications – from 97% in 2020 to 83% in 2022 – an encouraging sign that code reviews, automated testing and continuous integration are helping to reduce common programming errors,

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