2024

Scattered Spider Adopts RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware for Cyber Attacks 2024-07-17 at 10:01 By The infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has incorporated ransomware strains such as RansomHub and Qilin into its arsenal, Microsoft has revealed. Scattered Spider is the designation given to a threat actor that’s known for its sophisticated social engineering schemes […]

ESA starts work on planetary defence mission, because Bruce Willis is retired 2024-07-17 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Asteroid Apophis will come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029, which makes it very much worth a visit The European Space Agency has begun work on a planetary defence mission that will intercept an asteroid predicted to

Critical Apache HugeGraph Vulnerability Under Attack – Patch ASAP 2024-07-17 at 08:46 By Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server that could lead to remote code execution attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-27348 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability impacts all versions of the software before 1.3.0. It has been described

Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance 2024-07-17 at 08:22 By Simon Sharwood Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects Fujitsu has made a “significant investment” in Toronto-based Cohere Inc., a developer of large language models and associated tech, and will bring the five-year-old startup’s wares to the

Locking out ransomware: A new way to look at security strategy 2024-07-17 at 07:16 By Ransomware attacks are accelerating at a record pace, becoming dramatically more frequent and more sophisticated.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cybersecurity at the Paris Summer Olympics 2024-07-17 at 07:16 By Mark Manglicmot, SVP of Security Services at Arctic Wolf, discusses how individuals and businesses can defend against cyber threats during the Olympics.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

TikTok’s Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year 2024-07-17 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations Chinese short video platform TikTok is fast becoming an Asian e-commerce giant, according to analysis released by Singapore-based consultancy Momentum Works on Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

If you think AI labs wouldn’t stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again 2024-07-17 at 04:46 By Matthew Connatser What next, nutrition labels on cartons? Probably Comment  FYI: It’s not just Reddit posts, books, articles, webpages, code, music, images, and so forth being used by multi-billion-dollar businesses for training neural networks. AI

Iran’s MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor 2024-07-17 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it’s used to target Israeli organizations.… This article is an excerpt

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured ‘45% injury rate’ 2024-07-17 at 00:46 By Matthew Connatser Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm Risk of workplace injury is extremely high for Amazon warehouse workers during Prime Day and the holiday season, according to a US Senate committee report.… This article is

Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own 2024-07-17 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect GoDaddy is facing an antitrust lawsuit over claims it unfairly and underhandedly blackballed a smaller outfit’s DNS automation tool in favor of its own apparently

You know what spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft 2024-07-16 at 22:37 By Dan Robinson Excel-lent, Smithers, have we fired accounting yet? Researchers at Microsoft have developed a framework designed to make it easier for large language models (LLMs) to analyze the content of spreadsheets and perform data management and analysis tasks, because why not?… This

83% of cybersecurity managers are looking into AI 2024-07-16 at 21:46 By According to a report, 73% of life sciences companies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to address the cybersecurity skills gap. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source