2023

Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Targeting Chinese Users with ValleyRAT and Gh0st RAT 20/09/2023 at 14:01 By Chinese-language speakers have been increasingly targeted as part of multiple email phishing campaigns that aim to distribute various malware families such as Sainbox RAT, Purple Fox, and a new trojan called ValleyRAT. “Campaigns include Chinese-language lures and malware typically associated […]

Chan Zuckerberg org to spin up 1,000+ H100 GPU cluster for AI medical research 20/09/2023 at 13:48 By Katyanna Quach Plus: DeepMind trained model to predict genetically mutated DNA strings The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, founded by Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, is to build one of the world’s largest GPU clusters,

Signal Messenger Introduces PQXDH Quantum-Resistant Encryption 20/09/2023 at 13:02 By Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH). “With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of protection against the threat of

As TikTok surveils staff’s office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet 20/09/2023 at 12:33 By Paul Kunert Not leaving home for work cuts an individual’s carbon footprint by 54%, says research As TikTok becomes the latest tech biz to demand employees return to the office, deploying an app to monitor this, research indicates

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss 20/09/2023 at 11:36 By Brandon Vigliarolo Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe One of the foremost health risks for astronauts may have a cure en route. A specially-formulated medication has been shown to prevent bone loss in mice, and perhaps humans,

GitLab Releases Urgent Security Patches for Critical Vulnerability 20/09/2023 at 11:16 By GitLab has shipped security patches to resolve a critical flaw that allows an attacker to run pipelines as another user. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-5009 (CVSS score: 9.6), impacts all versions of GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) starting from 13.12 and prior to 16.2.7 as well

AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon 20/09/2023 at 10:33 By Simon Sharwood Andy Jassy’s rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren’t used in the Mini Amazon Web Services has flipped the switch on a virtual Mac offering in its Elastic Computing Cloud

Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu 20/09/2023 at 10:06 By Thomas Claburn Open wide! OpenTF – the fork of HashiCorp’s Terraform infrastructure management project – is no more. The software has been renamed OpenTofu and placed under the oversight of The Linux Foundation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original