May 2024

Kinsing Hacker Group Exploits More Flaws to Expand Botnet for Cryptojacking 2024-05-17 at 20:31 By The cryptojacking group known as Kinsing has demonstrated its ability to continuously evolve and adapt, proving to be a persistent threat by swiftly integrating newly disclosed vulnerabilities to exploit arsenal and expand its botnet. The findings come from cloud security firm Aqua, which described

Rosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck 2024-05-17 at 19:46 By Richard Speed Could 2030 bring touchdown at last? NASA and ESA have signed an agreement to finally send the long-delayed ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to the Red Planet.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Cyber attribution: Do you really need to know? 2024-05-17 at 19:16 By Cyber attribution — finding exactly who perpetrated a given cyberattack — has seemingly become a cybersecurity goal in and of itself. But do organizations really need to know? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Hugging Face to make $10M worth of old Nvidia GPUs freely available to AI devs 2024-05-17 at 18:46 By Tobias Mann You get a GPU, you get a GPU, everyone gets a ZeroGPU! Open source AI champion Hugging Face is making $10 million in GPU compute available to the public in a bid to ease

UK competition regulator says Microsoft’s stake in Mistral is not a merger 2024-05-17 at 17:31 By Paul Kunert Drops official probe but Microsoft’s deal with Inflection AI and Amazon’s with Anthropic still in play Britain’s competition watchdog does not think Microsoft’s investment in Mistral AI constitutes a merger situation – just weeks after calling for

Underwater datacenters could sink to sound wave sabotage 2024-05-17 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Ensure there are no sperm whales in the area Underwater datacenters have yet to take off in any meaningful way, but it seems they could prove vulnerable to attack using sound waves, according to researchers.… This article is an excerpt from

New XM Cyber Research: 80% of Exposures from Misconfigurations, Less Than 1% from CVEs 2024-05-17 at 15:46 By A new report from XM Cyber has found – among other insights – a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The

China-Linked Hackers Adopt Two-Stage Infection Tactic to Deploy Deuterbear RAT 2024-05-17 at 15:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a remote access trojan (RAT) known as Deuterbear used by the China-linked BlackTech hacking group as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the Asia-Pacific region this year. “Deuterbear, while similar to Waterbear in many ways,

Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices 2024-05-17 at 15:32 By Thomas Claburn Rival coders must have EU staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing Apple’s grudging accommodation of European law – allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices – apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and

To pay or not to pay? Negotiating in the age of ransomware 2024-05-17 at 15:17 By As with any cybersecurity incident, preparation is key — ransomware is no exception. In fact, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

First LockBit, now BreachForums: Are cops winning the war or just a few battles? 2024-05-17 at 14:46 By Jessica Lyons TLDR: Peace in our time is really really hard Interview  On Wednesday the FBI and international cops celebrated yet another cybercrime takedown – of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums – just a week after doxing and