January 2024

Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks 2024-01-22 at 06:01 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “notable increase” in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised hosts. “The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format and are

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BreachForums admin ‘Pompourin’ sentenced to 20 years of supervised release 2024-01-22 at 04:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities in brief  Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka “Pompourin,” a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20

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Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions 2024-01-22 at 02:17 By Laura Dobberstein PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets Asia In Brief  The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter’s Quest VR hardware to China is

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Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment 2024-01-21 at 23:02 By Tobias Mann Land of the rising profit? Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years 2024-01-20 at 13:49 By An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. “UNC3886 has

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How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers 2024-01-20 at 12:17 By Thomas Claburn Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on

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CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits 2024-01-20 at 07:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) products. The

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Microsoft’s Top Execs’ Emails Breached in Sophisticated Russia-Linked APT Attack 2024-01-20 at 06:16 By Microsoft on Friday revealed that it was the target of a nation-state attack on its corporate systems that resulted in the theft of emails and attachments from senior executives and other individuals in the company’s cybersecurity and legal departments. The Windows

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Invoice Phishing Alert: TA866 Deploys WasabiSeed & Screenshotter Malware 2024-01-20 at 05:02 By The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The campaign, observed earlier this month and blocked by Proofpoint on January 11, 2024, involved sending

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Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs 2024-01-20 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they’re serious Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100

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Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs 2024-01-20 at 03:09 By Tobias Mann All those neural network weights aren’t much without ample decent silicon OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly seeking billions of dollars in capital to build out a network of AI chip fabs.… This article is an excerpt from

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Russians invade Microsoft’s exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server 2024-01-20 at 02:19 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits ‘consistent with PRC’ snoops A VMware security vulnerability has been exploited by Chinese cyberspies since late 2021, according to Mandiant, in what has been a busy week for nation-state espionage

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Japan’s lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon 2024-01-20 at 00:17 By Katyanna Quach The real SLIM’s shady Japan soft-landed a probe on the Moon today – a first for the nation – though its spacecraft is struggling to generate power from its solar arrays.… This article is an excerpt

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Five ripped off IT giant with $7M+ in bogus work expenses, prosecutors claim 2024-01-19 at 23:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Account manager and pals blew it on hotels, cruise, fancy meals and more allegedly Five people have been accused of pulling off a “brazen” scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake work

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