2024

SideWinder APT Strikes Middle East and Africa With Stealthy Multi-Stage Attack 2024-10-17 at 13:41 By An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor with suspected ties to India has sprung forth with a flurry of attacks against high-profile entities and strategic infrastructures in the Middle East and Africa. The activity has been attributed to a group tracked […]

Ransomware: Threat Level Remains High in Third Quarter 2024-10-17 at 13:17 By Threat Hunter Team Recently established RansomHub group overtakes LockBit to become most prolific ransomware operation. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Ransomware: Threat Level Remains High in Third Quarter 2024-10-17 at 13:17 By Threat Hunter Team Recently established RansomHub group overtakes LockBit to become most prolific ransomware operation. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Ransomware: Threat Level Remains High in Third Quarter 2024-10-17 at 13:17 By Threat Hunter Team Recently established RansomHub group overtakes LockBit to become most prolific ransomware operation. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

UK electronics firms want government to stop taxing trash and let them fix it instead 2024-10-17 at 12:31 By Dan Robinson CLEAR group calls for VAT to be dropped on spare parts, repairs, labor A newly formed group of UK electronics companies is advocating for the removal of VAT on electronic spare parts, repairs, and

U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks 2024-10-17 at 12:19 By Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft’s services in June 2023. The attacks,

WeChat devs introduced security flaws when they modded TLS, say researchers 2024-10-17 at 11:46 By Connor Jones No attacks possible, but enough issues to cause concern Messaging giant WeChat uses a network protocol that the app’s developers modified – and by doing so introduced security weaknesses, researchers claim.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Anonymous Sudan isn’t any more: two alleged operators named, charged 2024-10-17 at 10:31 By Simon Sharwood Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub Hacktivist gang Anonymous Sudan appears to have lost its anonymity after the US Attorney’s Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment identifying two of its alleged operators.…

Elon Musk’s X isn’t important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation 2024-10-17 at 09:46 By Iain Thomson DMA gatekeeper status denied, meaning X can carry on without extra compliance chores The EU has said it won’t classify Elon Musk’s X as “gatekeeper” – the bloc’s designation for the most significant digital platforms-

Critical Kubernetes Image Builder Vulnerability Exposes Nodes to Root Access Risk 2024-10-17 at 09:46 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Kubernetes Image Builder that, if successfully exploited, could be abused to gain root access under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9486 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been addressed in version 0.1.38.

Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice 2024-10-17 at 08:25 By Laura Dobberstein Bots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced on Wednesday they’re partnering to combine the former’s multi-jointed athletic humanoid, Atlas, with TRI’s large

It’s time to embrace OSCAL automation for effective risk management 2024-10-17 at 07:17 By There are a multitude of regulatory standards and frameworks that organizations must adhere to, and keeping up with them can be difficult.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China launches plan to lead the world in space exploration 2024-10-17 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood Long-term research program includes building Moon bases, finding habitable exoplanets, and probing ‘space-time ripples’ China yesterday revealed its space exploration plans between now and the year 2050, and one of the nation’s goals is finding habitable planets beyond our