October 2024

First time’s the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster 2024-10-14 at 02:49 By Richard Speed Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target SpaceX’s engineers performed two significant feats on Saturday: catching Starship’s Super Heavy Booster with mechanical arms on the rocket’s launch tower, and

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Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between 2024-10-13 at 16:02 By Jessica Lyons Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite? If we were to draw an infosec Venn diagram, with one circle representing “sensitive info that attackers would want to steal” and the other “limited resources plus difficult-to-secure IT environments,” education would

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OilRig Exploits Windows Kernel Flaw in Espionage Campaign Targeting UAE and Gulf 2024-10-13 at 14:05 By The Iranian threat actor known as OilRig has been observed exploiting a now-patched privilege escalation flaw impacting the Windows Kernel as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.A.E. and the broader Gulf region. “The group utilizes sophisticated

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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

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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

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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 –

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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

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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.…

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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