August 2024

Iranian Cyber Group TA453 Targets Jewish Leader with New AnvilEcho Malware 2024-08-20 at 13:46 By Iranian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed orchestrating spear-phishing campaigns targeting a prominent Jewish figure starting in late July 2024 with the goal of delivering a new intelligence-gathering tool called AnvilEcho. Enterprise security company Proofpoint is tracking the activity under […]

New Backdoor Targeting Taiwan Employs Stealthy Communications 2024-08-20 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team Previously unseen backdoor communicates with command-and-control server using DNS traffic. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

New Backdoor Targeting Taiwan Employs Stealthy Communications 2024-08-20 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team Previously unseen backdoor communicates with command-and-control server using DNS traffic. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

New Backdoor Targeting Taiwan Employs Stealthy Communications 2024-08-20 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team Previously unseen backdoor communicates with command-and-control server using DNS traffic. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Cloudflare calls for regulatory harmonization amid rising internet challenges 2024-08-20 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Removing security services not always the best way to tackle problematic content Interview  Cloudflare wants harmonization of all the regulation and compliance frameworks springing up around the world, according to the networking service provider’s deputy chief legal officer and global

City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle 2024-08-20 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Europe’s largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans The total cost of Birmingham City Council’s Oracle implementation disaster is set to reach £216.5 million ($280.4 million) by April 2026, according to a new audit report.… This article

Euro antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager to depart after decade of reining in Big Tech 2024-08-20 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn Her legacy hinges on her successor – will they double down? Europe’s top competition cop, Margrethe Vestager, will reportedly be stepping down later this year, a development certain to please the US tech firms she

Iran named as source of Trump campaign phish, leaks 2024-08-20 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Political stirrer Roger Stone may have been a weak link after personal emails cracked US authorities have named Iran as the likely source of a recent attack on the campaign of the US Republican Party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump.… This

Pakistan’s internet slows to uncomfortable levels, allegedly due to new China-style firewall 2024-08-20 at 09:17 By Laura Dobberstein Minister issues denial – it’s just an upgrade to the ‘web-management system’ Industry group Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT (P@SHA) last week accused the Pakistan government late last week of implementing a China-style internet firewall –

Blind Eagle Hackers Exploit Spear-Phishing to Deploy RATs in Latin America 2024-08-20 at 09:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a threat actor known as Blind Eagle that has persistently targeted entities and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama, and other Latin American nations. Targets of these attacks span several sectors, including governmental institutions,

Thousands of Oracle NetSuite Sites at Risk of Exposing Customer Information 2024-08-20 at 08:46 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning about the discovery of thousands of externally-facing Oracle NetSuite e-commerce sites that have been found susceptible to leaking sensitive customer information. “A potential issue in NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce platform could allow attackers to access sensitive data due

CISA Warns of Critical Jenkins Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks 2024-08-20 at 08:46 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security flaw impacting Jenkins to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following its exploitation in ransomware attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23897 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a path traversal

Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off, GPUs accelerate 2024-08-20 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Lenovo also cashes in on AI demand, without being able to turn it into profit Demand for cloudy CPUs has levelled out at top Chinese clouds Alibaba and Tencent, whose customers increasingly want GPUs instead.… This article

Small businesses need to secure data before tapping into AI 2024-08-20 at 07:16 By AI isn’t just for enterprises. It’s accessible and realistic for small companies to use too — if proper data protections are in place. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Missing scissors cause 38 flight cancellations in Japan 2024-08-20 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood Plus a further 200 delays … all on a holiday weekend Thirty-eight flights were cancelled at Japan’s New Chitose airport on Saturday after a pair of scissors went missing.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source