July 2024

Malicious npm Packages Found Using Image Files to Hide Backdoor Code 2024-07-16 at 13:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified two malicious packages on the npm package registry that concealed backdoor code to execute malicious commands sent from a remote server. The packages in question – img-aws-s3-object-multipart-copy and legacyaws-s3-object-multipart-copy – have been downloaded 190 and 48

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Iranian Hackers Deploy New BugSleep Backdoor in Middle East Cyber Attacks 2024-07-16 at 13:16 By The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has been observed using a never-before-seen backdoor as part of a recent attack campaign, shifting away from its well-known tactic of deploying legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software for maintaining persistent access.

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Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up ‘reimagining’ project 2024-07-16 at 12:33 By Richard Speed Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the ‘Agile Industrial Complex’ Interview  The Agile Manifesto was published almost a quarter of a century ago. Yet as the years have rolled by, its lofty ideals have run headlong

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Void Banshee APT Exploits Microsoft MHTML Flaw to Spread Atlantida Stealer 2024-07-16 at 12:16 By An advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Void Banshee has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in the Microsoft MHTML browser engine as a zero-day to deliver an information stealer called Atlantida. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which observed

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Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had ‘unrealistic’ timeline 2024-07-16 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark 18 months late, overbudget… report finds council’s SAP ERP rip ‘n’ replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity A UK public authority responsible for about £1.1 billion ($1.43 billion) in annual spending damaged its ERP

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Qualcomm sues Chinese handset-maker in India to defend African market 2024-07-16 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood There’s a lot of territory to cover here Qualcomm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in India against Chinese smartphone-maker Transsion.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Big Music reprises classic hit ‘ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we’ll sue’ 2024-07-16 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Stop us if you think you’ve heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon Big Music has launched a fresh lawsuit aimed at forcing ISPs to take action against users who trade

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Yandex sells off Russian ops, now Putin itself about as Nebius Group 2024-07-16 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring Google clone to the world Yandex has untangled its Dutch entity from its Russian operations in a $5.4 billion deal, the internet search provider announced on Monday

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Kaspersky Exits U.S. Market Following Commerce Department Ban 2024-07-16 at 07:46 By Russian security vendor Kaspersky has said it’s exiting the U.S. market nearly a month after the Commerce Department announced a ban on the sale of its software in the country citing a national security risk. News of the closure was first reported by

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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited RCE Flaw in GeoServer GeoTools Software 2024-07-16 at 07:46 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. GeoServer is an open-source software server written in

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Microsoft wasn’t CISPE’s only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail 2024-07-16 at 07:17 By Richard Speed Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants From the department of “the lady doth protest too much, methinks” comes news

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FBI gains access to suspected Trump shooter’s phone 2024-07-16 at 06:31 By Simon Sharwood Hasn’t said how it did it, but has form cracking devices The FBI has revealed it has gained access to a phone it says was used by Thomas Matthew Crooks – the deceased man accused of shooting at and wounding former

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