October 2024

Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver 2024-10-12 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time After nearly a year in orbit, the US Space Force’s secretive X-37B is prepped to perform some fancy new maneuvers to alter its orbit and dump its service

Anthropic’s Claude vulnerable to ’emotional manipulation’ 2024-10-12 at 13:32 By Thomas Claburn AI model safety only goes so far Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, despite its reputation as one of the better behaved generative AI models, can still be convinced to emit racist hate speech and malware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation 2024-10-12 at 08:17 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets as part of a widespread fraud operation. The law enforcement action – codenamed Operation Token Mirrors –

US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities 2024-10-12 at 06:21 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, phishing’s easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more in brief  If you need an excuse to improve your patching habits, a joint advisory from the US and UK governments about a

INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good 2024-10-12 at 02:03 By Connor Jones Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over a three-month period.…

US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants 2024-10-12 at 00:33 By Jessica Lyons Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also urge federal regulators

Ubuntu turns 20: ‘Oracular Oriole’ shows this old bird’s still got plenty of flight 2024-10-11 at 23:16 By Liam Proven The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade – but not all of the new hotness is

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can’t delete 2024-10-11 at 21:47 By Richard Speed When the ‘cleanup’ option stubbornly refuses Windows 11 24H2 users are finding there is undeletable data that remains on their devices after installing the recently released feature update.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks 2024-10-11 at 21:07 By A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction

GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks 2024-10-11 at 21:05 By A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who hooked citizens up to Russian internet 2024-10-11 at 20:16 By Connor Jones ‘Self-taught hacker’ facing a possible 15 years in the slammer A 28-year-old Ukrainian is facing up to 15 years in prison for allegedly operating what the war-torn nation’s cyber police are calling an illegal VPN service that

Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge 2024-10-11 at 18:46 By Dan Robinson Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain US energy companies must adapt to the AI-driven datacenter boom with power use forecast to outstrip supply within the next few years.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script? 2024-10-11 at 17:17 By Thomas Claburn We’re sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar’s missive very warm and human Zoom Video Communications intends to offer office workers the ability to communicate with colleagues using an AI lookalike

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares… 2024-10-11 at 16:16 By Liam Proven But what does that mean? Explainer  Apple’s latest OS release is the newest member of the Open Group list of officially verified UNIX variants – by quite some margin.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Tesla’s big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly 2024-10-11 at 15:07 By Richard Speed WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab’s coming out party Complete with Back to The Future style folding doors, Tesla is showing off its Robotaxi at last, along with an autonomous minibus and the Optimus robot.… This article

More than one-third of tech professionals report AI skills shortage 2024-10-11 at 15:06 By New research has found a skills gap in AI security skills.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source