2024

How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses 2024-07-02 at 14:16 By The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual “State of Ransomware 2024” report that the average ransom payment

New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Indirector’ Exposes Sensitive Data 2024-07-02 at 14:16 By Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean

Google Translate now fluent in 110 additional languages from Abkhaz to Zulu 2024-07-02 at 13:32 By Liam Proven Ta shoh scansh mie, son ymmyd Google is adding more languages to Google Translate – lots more. This time around, 110 of them, including Manx.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

How tech went from free love to pay-per-click 2024-07-02 at 12:46 By Liam Proven FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense Devconf.cz  This year, along with all the usual in-depth technical talks about Linux at Red Hat’s Devconf.cz developer conference, there were also several people there to promote AI-linked projects and the tech

MIT’s bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind 2024-07-02 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years Researchers have shown a combination of special surgery and a bionic limb can enhance walking speed in some amputees by 40 percent, within the range of able-bodied individuals.…

‘Almost every Apple device’ vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack 2024-07-02 at 10:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Dependency manager used in millions of apps leaves a bitter taste CocoaPods, an open-source dependency manager used in over three million applications coded in Swift and Objective-C, left thousands of packages exposed and ready for takeover for nearly a

Trouble in space as Boeing’s not going, and China’s back from the Moon 2024-07-02 at 09:31 By Iain Thomson Vultures chew over a busy few days in orbit with a transatlantic chat Kettle  It’s been a busy time for space, with Boeing’s test pilots stuck (at time of writing) on the International Space Station due

Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny 2024-07-02 at 09:17 By Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to

Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware 2024-07-02 at 09:17 By A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection that allows

Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor’s update systems to spew malware 2024-07-02 at 08:34 By Laura Dobberstein Notorious ‘Andariel’ crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack A South Korean ERP vendor’s product update server has been attacked and used to deliver malware instead of product updates, according to local infosec outfit AhnLab.… This

Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights 2024-07-02 at 07:47 By An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to

China working on standard for brain-computer interfaces 2024-07-02 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood This is more than a thought bubble: Beijing aspires to dominate international standards China’s government wants to develop a standard for brain-computer interfaces.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Christina Alexandropoulou | Women in Security 2024 2024-07-02 at 07:16 By Christina Alexandropoulou follows her passion for the industry as Cluster Manager for Security & Market Safety in South East Europe for Philip Morris International (PMI). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source