July 2024

Ongoing Cyberattack Targets Exposed Selenium Grid Services for Crypto Mining 2024-07-26 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign that’s leveraging internet-exposed Selenium Grid services for illicit cryptocurrency mining. Cloud security Wiz is tracking the activity under the name SeleniumGreed. The campaign, which is targeting older versions of Selenium (3.141.59

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CrowdStrike Warns of New Phishing Scam Targeting German Customers 2024-07-26 at 09:31 By CrowdStrike is alerting about an unfamiliar threat actor attempting to capitalize on the Falcon Sensor update fiasco to distribute dubious installers targeting German customers as part of a highly targeted campaign. The cybersecurity company said it identified what it described as an

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UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pact 2024-07-26 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Pick a hot market – AI, quantum, chips, 6G – and the pair have a plan to work on it together The UK and India agreed on Wednesday to a broad “Technology Security Initiative” that will see the two nations collaborate

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Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user biz, emerges with promise of ‘AI-infused autonomous workspace’ 2024-07-26 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood We think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny Omnissa, the newly independent business created by Broadcom’s spinoff of VMWare’s end-user compute arm, has proclaimed it will become a source of “AI-infused autonomous workspaces”.… This article

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Critical Flaw in Telerik Report Server Poses Remote Code Execution Risk 2024-07-26 at 08:16 By Progress Software is urging users to update their Telerik Report Server instances following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6327 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts Report Server version 2024

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One year after SEC cyber disclosure ruling, security leaders weigh in 2024-07-26 at 07:16 By With a year in the rearview mirror, security professionals are reflecting on the SEC cyber disclosure ruling. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, NASA – and even China 2024-07-26 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged a North Korean national over a series of

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Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank 2024-07-26 at 04:46 By Matthew Connatser May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers Infosec researchers have discovered a network of over three thousand malicious GitHub accounts used to spread malware, targeting groups including gamers, malware researchers, and even other threat actors

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CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain’t covering it all 2024-07-26 at 03:46 By Matthew Connatser We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9) The cost of CrowdStrike’s apocalyptic Falcon update that brought down millions of Windows computers last week may be in the billions of dollars, and insurance isn’t covering most of

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Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI 2024-07-26 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Team America AI Police? Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others. …

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Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware 2024-07-26 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons PSA: Only accept updates via official channels … ironically enough CrowdStrike is the latest lure being used to trick Windows users into downloading and running the notorious Lumma infostealing malware, according to the security shop’s threat intel team, which

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OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT – not that you’re allowed to use it yet 2024-07-25 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser Launching in Beta is so 2014. We’re in the pre-Beta limited sign-up era now After months of speculation, shy and retiring OpenAI has showed the world a glimpse of its very own web search

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FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted 2024-07-25 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn’t see this as much of a problem Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of

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NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers 2024-07-25 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo 900 Mbps from Earth to orbit, and I still can’t get reliable Wi-Fi in my backyard Jealous of the fact that the International Space Station has better internet than you do? Well, here’s one more benchmark

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