November 2023

Experts Uncover DarkCasino: New Emerging APT Threat Exploiting WinRAR Flaw 16/11/2023 at 17:01 By A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat (APT). Cybersecurity company NSFOCUS has described DarkCasino as an “economically motivated” actor that first came […]

46% of SMBs and enterprises have experienced a ransomware attack 16/11/2023 at 16:46 By According to a ransomware report, almost half of small and medium businesses (SMBs) and enterprises (46% each) have experienced a ransomware attack. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Japan Airlines fuels up on hydrogen hype with eye on cleaner skies 16/11/2023 at 16:32 By Dan Robinson Jet-setting to a greener future? Japan Airlines is looking into the feasibility of using hydrogen-electric engines to power aircraft in future, and is working with three engineering outfits to study issues such as safety and maintainability.… This

CISA and FBI Issue Warning About Rhysida Ransomware Double Extortion Attacks 16/11/2023 at 16:16 By The threat actors behind the Rhysida ransomware engage in opportunistic attacks targeting organizations spanning various industry sectors. The advisory comes courtesy of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and

Royal Mail’s recovery from ransomware attack will cost business at least $12M 16/11/2023 at 15:47 By Connor Jones First time hard figure given on recovery costs for January incident Royal Mail’s parent company has revealed for the first time the infrastructure costs associated with its January ransomware attack.… This article is an excerpt from The

How to Automate the Hardest Parts of Employee Offboarding 16/11/2023 at 15:01 By According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70% of IT professionals say they’ve experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT offboarding, whether in the form of a security incident tied to an account that wasn’t deprovisioned, a surprise bill for resources that aren’t

Hackers Could Exploit Google Workspace and Cloud Platform for Ransomware Attacks 16/11/2023 at 15:01 By A set of novel attack methods has been demonstrated against Google Workspace and the Google Cloud Platform that could be potentially leveraged by threat actors to conduct ransomware, data exfiltration, and password recovery attacks. “Starting from a single compromised machine,

NASA geeks code new tricks to model rocket plumes and avoid a lunar dust-up 16/11/2023 at 14:47 By Dan Robinson Supersonic hot gas not that awesome for rocky, dusty surface NASA researchers have developed tools to simulate how rocket engines disrupt the lunar surface in light of plans for newer and larger landers as part

Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering 16/11/2023 at 14:17 By Liam Proven As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together Canonical hosted an amusingly failure-filled demo of its new easy-to-install, Ubuntu-powered tool for building small-to-medium scale, on-premises high-availability clusters, Microcloud, at an event in London yesterday.…