February 2024

Iranian Hackers Target Middle East Policy Experts with New BASICSTAR Backdoor 2024-02-19 at 07:01 By The Iranian-origin threat actor known as Charming Kitten has been linked to a new set of attacks aimed at Middle East policy experts with a new backdoor called BASICSTAR by creating a fake webinar portal. Charming Kitten, also called APT35, CharmingCypress, Mint

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A visa to fill Australia’s empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value 2024-02-19 at 05:33 By Simon Sharwood Application process gets a massive overhaul For decades, Australia has failed to train enough IT pros to satisfy local employers’ needs. The nation’s solution to the shortfall has involved issuing visas to skilled

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Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew 2024-02-19 at 03:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns infosec in brief  The US government is offering bounties up to $15 million as a reward for anyone willing to help it

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Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to … anthrax? 2024-02-18 at 18:31 By Jessica Lyons Unsettling reading as Presidents’ Day approaches In time for the long Presidents’ Day weekend in the US there have been multiple warnings about what will undoubtedly be a challenging and potentially dangerous year for voting processes and government

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FBI’s Most-Wanted Zeus and IcedID Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty 2024-02-18 at 09:47 By A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to his role in two different malware schemes, Zeus and IcedID, between May 2009 and February 2021. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Vyacheslav Igoravich Andreev, father, and tank), 37, was arrested by Swiss authorities in October

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How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites 2024-02-17 at 13:46 By Thomas Claburn We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI’s GPT-4 and other neural nets AI models, the subject of ongoing safety concerns about harmful and biased output, pose a risk beyond content emission. When wedded with tools that enable automated interaction

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How Businesses Can Safeguard Their Communication Channels Against Hackers 2024-02-17 at 10:46 By Efficient communication is a cornerstone of business success. Internally, making sure your team communicates seamlessly helps you avoid friction losses, misunderstandings, delays, and overlaps. Externally, frustration-free customer communication is directly correlated to a positive customer experience and higher satisfaction.  However, business communication

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Google Open Sources Magika: AI-Powered File Identification Tool 2024-02-17 at 09:49 By Google has announced that it’s open-sourcing Magika, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool to identify file types, to help defenders accurately detect binary and textual file types. “Magika outperforms conventional file identification methods providing an overall 30% accuracy boost and up to 95% higher precision

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Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others 2024-02-17 at 04:16 By Katyanna Quach Cool, but it’s 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML Google has open sourced Magika, an in-house machine-learning-powered file identifier, as part of its AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which aims

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FTC asks normal folks if they’d like AI impersonation scam protection, too 2024-02-17 at 01:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Fakers face the wrath of Khan The FTC is moving to make not only the fraudulent AI impersonation of government and business folk illegal but is also now asking the American public if they’d like some protection

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Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms 2024-02-17 at 00:47 By Thomas Claburn Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? Where’s the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying Democratic lawmakers once again have proposed legislation to ensure that the software source code used for criminal investigations can be examined and is

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Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G 2024-02-17 at 00:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo One giant leap for astronaut medicine The world’s first remote-operated robot space surgeon has been successfully tested, the team behind the device said this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Oxide reimagines private cloud as… a 3,000-pound blade server? 2024-02-16 at 22:47 By Tobias Mann Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash Analysis  Over the past few years we’ve seen a number of OEMs, including Dell, HPE, and others trying to make on-prem

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