July 2024

New SideWinder Cyber Attacks Target Maritime Facilities in Multiple Countries 2024-07-30 at 11:31 By The nation-state threat actor known as SideWinder has been attributed to a new cyber espionage campaign targeting ports and maritime facilities in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team, which discovered the activity, said targets of […]

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Automation needed to fight army of AI content harvesters stalking the web 2024-07-30 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Just when you think you’ve ban-hammered one, it pops up with another name Analysis  This month Anthropic’s ClaudeBot – a web content crawler that scrapes data from pages for training AI models – visited tech advice site

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OneDrive Phishing Scam Tricks Users into Running Malicious PowerShell Script 2024-07-30 at 10:31 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new phishing campaign that targets Microsoft OneDrive users with the aim of executing a malicious PowerShell script. “This campaign heavily relies on social engineering tactics to deceive users into executing a PowerShell script, thereby compromising

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South Korea creates $445 bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant 2024-07-30 at 10:16 By Laura Dobberstein Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors The South Korean government on Monday created a ₩560 billion ($445 million) rescue package to bail out merchants who used two major

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Proofpoint phishing palaver plagues millions with ‘perfectly spoofed’ emails from IBM, Nike, Disney, others 2024-07-30 at 09:31 By Jessica Lyons They DKIM here, they DKIM there A huge phishing campaign exploited a security blind-spot in Proofpoint’s email filtering systems to send an average of three million “perfectly spoofed” messages a day purporting to be from

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VMware ESXi Flaw Exploited by Ransomware Groups for Admin Access 2024-07-30 at 09:16 By A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by “several” ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score: 6.8), an Active Directory integration authentication bypass

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Desktop hypervisors are not dead: Oracle preps major VirtualBox update 2024-07-30 at 09:01 By Simon Sharwood Solaris support persists and support for Armed Macs improves Oracle last week debuted a beta for a major update to its VirtualBox desktop hypervisor.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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ESXi environments targeted with new Linux variant ransomware strain 2024-07-30 at 07:16 By The Play ransomware group is deploying a Linux variant that targets ESXi environments.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Malaysia is working on an internet ‘kill switch’, says minister 2024-07-30 at 05:31 By Laura Dobberstein Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license Legislation for an internet “kill switch” will reach Malaysia’s Parliament in October, according to the country’s minister for Law and Institutional Reform.… This article is an excerpt

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Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews 2024-07-30 at 03:46 By Matthew Connatser At last, the world-changing innovation of ML emojis can be yours to enjoy Apple Intelligence, Cupertino’s promised suite of generative AI services, has debuted in beta versions of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.… This article is

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Apple agrees to terms with US store union for first time 2024-07-30 at 03:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Funny what threatening to walk off the job and shutter a retail store can do Apple is on the verge of entering its first-ever agreement with a stateside retail employee union, caving to demands from store workers who

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US senators say car makers sold people’s driving habits, location data for pennies 2024-07-30 at 02:16 By Matthew Connatser Khaan! Khaaaaaan! Two US senators have urged the FTC to probe and potentially prosecute three automakers that allegedly unlawfully sold motorists’ personal data for pennies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Meta’s AI safety system defeated by the space bar 2024-07-30 at 00:16 By Thomas Claburn ‘Ignore previous instructions’ thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol’ ASCII code 32 Meta’s machine-learning model for detecting prompt injection attacks – special prompts to make neural networks behave inappropriately – is itself vulnerable to, you guessed

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US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching phones, devices 2024-07-29 at 23:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they’re way too busy right now to take a look US border agents must obtain a warrant, in New York at least, to search

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