2023

Turla’s New DeliveryCheck Backdoor Breaches Ukrainian Defense Sector 20/07/2023 at 13:31 By The defense sector in Ukraine and Eastern Europe has been targeted by a novel .NET-based backdoor called DeliveryCheck (aka CAPIBAR or GAMEDAY) that’s capable of delivering next-stage payloads. The Microsoft threat intelligence team, in collaboration with the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), attributed the attacks […]

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal 20/07/2023 at 12:31 By Lindsay Clark Rishi Sunak fails to secure place in €95.5B program before Parliament packs up for holiday After taking years to get to the point where it could rejoin the EU’s €95.5 billion Horizon science program, the UK now

Social media is too much for most of us to handle 20/07/2023 at 11:46 By Mark Pesce I know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health Column  In 2008, I formed a hypothesis that everyone has something to teach you, so the more connected you are, the

Ukraine busts bot farm spreading Russian infowar propaganda and fraud 20/07/2023 at 10:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: Spanish cops arrest Ukrainian scareware dev after ten-year hunt Ukrainian cops have disrupted a massive bot farm with more than 100 operators allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian invasion, leaking personal information belonging to Ukrainian citizens,

New P2PInfect Worm Targeting Redis Servers on Linux and Windows Systems 20/07/2023 at 09:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cloud targeting, peer-to-peer (P2P) worm called P2PInfect that targets vulnerable Redis instances for follow-on exploitation. “P2PInfect exploits Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows Operating Systems making it more scalable and potent than other worms,”

ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks 20/07/2023 at 09:30 By Katyanna Quach Behavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 365’s uptime GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 – the models at the heart of OpenAI’s ChatGPT – appear to have got worse at generating some code and performing other tasks between

Microsoft Expands Cloud Logging to Counter Rising Nation-State Cyber Threats 20/07/2023 at 09:02 By Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it’s expanding cloud logging capabilities to help organizations investigate cybersecurity incidents and gain more visibility after facing criticism in the wake of a recent espionage attack campaign aimed at its email infrastructure. The tech giant said it’s making

Adobe Rolls Out New Patches for Actively Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability 20/07/2023 at 06:36 By Adobe has released a fresh round of updates to address an incomplete fix for a recently disclosed ColdFusion flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The critical shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2023-38205 (CVSS score: 7.5), has been described as an instance

Russia’s tiny quantum computer is (probably) nothing to worry about 20/07/2023 at 05:46 By Tobias Mann 16 qubit system capable of modeling simple molecules, Kremlin says Scientists at Russia’s International Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Technologies recently presented a new quantum computer to the nation’s President Vladimir Putin, proclaiming it to be the “most

Samsung makes big promises about GDDR7 RAM 20/07/2023 at 04:02 By Tobias Mann Too bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus Keeping graphics processors fed, whether for large language models or the latest AAA games, takes a lot of memory bandwidth. That’s exactly what Samsung’s GDDR7 memory module, unveiled Wednesday, claims to deliver.… This

Days before its earnings call, Infosys announces $2B in new business 20/07/2023 at 03:47 By Laura Dobberstein Results were anticipated to be dim, so where does this put outsourcer now? IT outsourcer Infosys has signed a five-year $2 billion AI and automation deal with an unnamed existing client just three days before it releases its

Google mulls airgapping staff internet to boost security 20/07/2023 at 02:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Tells us fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in ‘experiment’ In a bid to shrink the attack surface of its army of employees, and thus boost security, Google is taking an experimental approach: cutting their workstations off from