June 2024

Meta and SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain 2024-06-24 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion  When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the […]

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RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations 2024-06-24 at 11:31 By A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name RedJuliett, describing it

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DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results 2024-06-24 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood It’s not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published the results of an exercise that assessed whether quantum computers will deliver on

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India to build re-usable launch vehicle after nailing third landing of mini-spaceplane 2024-06-24 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Next: more work on crewed mission, including space yoga for astronauts India’s Space Research Organization has signalled its intention to build a reusable launch vehicle after a third test of an unpowered experimental precursor again nailed its

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Multiple Threat Actors Deploying Open-Source Rafel RAT to Target Android Devices 2024-06-24 at 08:31 By Multiple threat actors, including cyber espionage groups, are employing an open-source Android remote administration tool called Rafel RAT to meet their operational objectives by masquerading it as Instagram, WhatsApp, and various e-commerce and antivirus apps. “It provides malicious actors with

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Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game 2024-06-24 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit Analysis  Samsung has teased its entry into the GPU industry, but its plans are obscure.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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A workplace security framework: Mitigating employee-related threats 2024-06-24 at 07:16 By The prevalence of non-violent acts perpetrated by former employees is often underreported and underestimated, yet their impact can be just as devastating.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward 2024-06-24 at 05:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren’t; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief  The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims – and even one of the

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Risk of getting malicious extension from Chrome store way worse than Google’s letting on, study suggests 2024-06-23 at 13:46 By Thomas Claburn All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged

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Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here’s how to get started 2024-06-22 at 17:31 By Tobias Mann In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that’s another story Hands on  Large language models (LLMs) are generally associated with chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, but they’re by

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ExCobalt Cyber Gang Targets Russian Sectors with New GoRed Backdoor 2024-06-22 at 15:01 By Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. “ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious

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Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers 2024-06-22 at 15:01 By A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. “The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes,” cybersecurity

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