2024

Scattered Spider’s fave new ransomware tools are RansomHub and Qilin 2024-07-16 at 21:16 By Connor Jones Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups.… This article is an excerpt from […]

65 years of NASA’s meatball: Original logo lives on despite detractors 2024-07-16 at 20:31 By Richard Speed Next year the ‘worm’ turns 50 – there’s room for both at the US space agency Logowatch  NASA is celebrating 65 years of its iconic “meatball” logo, despite spending the best part of 17 years trying to kill

Huawei lays final bricks of billion-dollar Shanghai R&D complex 2024-07-16 at 19:47 By Matthew Connatser Billed as a city in its own right, center built to advance megacorp’s 5G, cloud, and AI tech Huawei’s massive R&D complex in Shanghai is finally built – intended to give the US-sanction-hit Chinese tech giant a boost when it

Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as ‘change fatigue’ persists 2024-07-16 at 18:45 By Lindsay Clark Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI ‘tax’ as users yet to see value Gartner has nudged down its expected growth in worldwide IT spending for 2024 from 8 percent to 7.5 percent, with the total

UK competition officials launch merger probe of Microsoft, Inflection AI deal 2024-07-16 at 18:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo AI supremacy is a helluva drug, and Microsoft’s old habits die hard UK antitrust regulators today announced the beginning of a merger inquiry into Microsoft’s cash deal with startup Inflection AI, which included poaching employees. … This article is

Microsoft to intro checkpoint cumulative updates for Win 11 2024-07-16 at 17:17 By Richard Speed The mission? To spend less time in patch purgatory Microsoft is making yet another attempt to combat update bloat with checkpoint cumulative updates coming to both Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025.… This article is an excerpt from The

‘Konfety’ Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins 2024-07-16 at 17:17 By Details have emerged about a “massive ad fraud operation” that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy

Understanding the impact of the NIST NVD backlog on MSPs 2024-07-16 at 17:01 By The National Vulnerability Database backlog has significant implications for managed service providers. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Rite Aid admits 2.2 million people’s data stolen by criminals 2024-07-16 at 16:46 By Connor Jones RansomHub allegedly strikes again as its star continues to rise in the cybercrime scene US drugstore chain Rite Aid has admitted that last month’s “data security incident” compromised the data of 2.2 million individuals.… This article is an excerpt

Intel’s China investments may have spurred fresh US restrictions 2024-07-16 at 16:02 By Dan Robinson Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? Analysis  Intel’s investment arm might be forced to divest interests in China due to incoming US regulations governing American funds going to Chinese tech companies. The chipmaker is