2023

AVRecon Botnet Leveraging Compromised Routers to Fuel Illegal Proxy Service 31/07/2023 at 13:02 By More details have emerged about a botnet called AVRecon, which has been observed making use of compromised small office/home office (SOHO) routers as part of a multi-year campaign active since at least May 2021. AVRecon was first disclosed by Lumen Black Lotus Labs earlier

Fruity Trojan Uses Deceptive Software Installers to Spread Remcos RAT 31/07/2023 at 13:02 By Threat actors are creating fake websites hosting trojanized software installers to trick unsuspecting users into downloading a downloader malware called Fruity with the goal of installing remote trojans tools like Remcos RAT. “Among the software in question are various instruments for

Satnav for the Moon could benefit from Fibonacci’s expertise 31/07/2023 at 12:48 By Dan Robinson Middle Ages maths to the rescue Future satellite navigation systems intended for Earth’s Moon may be aided by a model of it developed with methods that go back to mathematician Fibonacci, who lived 800 years ago.… This article is an

What would sustainable security even look like? 31/07/2023 at 11:34 By Rupert Goodwins Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today Opinion  “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” fumed Admiral David Beatty during 1916’s Battle of Jutland. Fair enough: three of the Royal Navy’s finest vessels had just blown up and

Multiple Flaws Found in Ninja Forms Plugin Leave 800,000 Sites Vulnerable 31/07/2023 at 11:17 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Ninja Forms plugin for WordPress that could be exploited by threat actors to escalate privileges and steal sensitive data. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-37979, CVE-2023-38386, and CVE-2023-38393, impact versions 3.6.25 and below,

Avaya reseller pleads guilty to role in $88m licensing scam 31/07/2023 at 10:02 By Simon Sharwood Comms vendor’s employee allegedly generated bogus licences and hijacked sysadmin accounts to make more A New Jersey man has plead guilty to selling pirated Avaya software licenses, allegedly generated and shopped by one of the vendor’s system administrators.… This

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 31/07/2023 at 09:03 By Laura Dobberstein Thankfully the probe can phone home to fix this sort of mess NASA revealed on Friday that its venerable Voyager 2 probe is currently incommunicado, because the space agency pointed its antenna in the wrong direction.… This article is an excerpt from

‘Weird numerological coincidence’ found during work on Linux kernel 6.5 31/07/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood It might be the only non-boring thing about the release, which has Linus Torvalds celebrating Linus Torvalds has noticed a “weird numerological coincidence” during work on version 6.5 of the Linux kernel.… This article is an excerpt from The

Indonesia blocks Musk’s X.com over its X-rated past 31/07/2023 at 06:17 By Laura Dobberstein ALSO: Japan’s government to write docs with AI; 5G boom coming; India denies infosec issues Asia In Brief  Elon Musk’s rebadged Twitter, X.com, has been blocked in Indonesia as the domain was formerly used to for websites containing content deemed unsuitable,

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s pop artifact stash now heads to a museum 29/07/2023 at 16:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrick’s guitars, Vader’s helmet, Captain Kirk’s chair, and more Paul Allen left more than just a tech legacy and billions of dollars behind when he died. The Microsoft co-founder amassed a sizable collection