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Malicious npm Packages Found Exfiltrating Sensitive Data from Developers 04/08/2023 at 13:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new bunch of malicious packages on the npm package registry that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive developer information. Software supply chain firm Phylum, which first identified the “test” packages on July 31, 2023, said they “demonstrated increasing […]

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Major Cybersecurity Agencies Collaborate to Unveil 2022’s Most Exploited Vulnerabilities 04/08/2023 at 10:31 By A four-year-old critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiOS SSL has emerged as one of the most routinely and frequently exploited vulnerabilities in 2022. “In 2022, malicious cyber actors exploited older software vulnerabilities more frequently than recently disclosed vulnerabilities and targeted unpatched,

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Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons 04/08/2023 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn Why ‘dont deploy on Frday’ is a thnng Boffins have spent two years monitoring the computers of office staff at a large Texas energy concern and found that workers did less and made more mistakes in the afternoon

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Big Tech’s going to love India’s new personal data protection bill, say digital rights groups 04/08/2023 at 09:02 By Laura Dobberstein Big fines for breaches. Also big powers, including takedowns, for planned Data Protection Board India’s long awaited digital Personal Data Protection Bill was tabled in parliament on Thursday, complete with stiff penalties for data

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Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy 04/08/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood What could possibly go wrong with this Fujitsu tech? A Japanese supermarket has started analyzing customers’ in-store behavior and feeding it to a generative AI to drive an avatar that makes real-time suggestions about stuff you

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Out of nowhere, India requires PC and server makers to get an import license 04/08/2023 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing India yesterday changed its trade rules to require manufacturers of many types of computers to secure an import license to bring their goods into the country.… This

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Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist 04/08/2023 at 04:17 By Thomas Claburn A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on Thursday pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges related to the 2016 theft of some 120,000 Bitcoins from Hong Kong-based

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IBM, NASA release actual open source AI model – for grokking sat images 04/08/2023 at 03:32 By Katyanna Quach Some people just want to watch the world burn IBM and NASA have put together and released Prithvi: an open source foundation AI model that may help scientists and other folks analyze satellite imagery.… This article

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Russia’s Cozy Bear is back and hitting Microsoft Teams to phish top targets 04/08/2023 at 00:31 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: Tenable CEO blasts Redmond’s bug disclosure habits An infamous Kremlin-backed gang has been using Microsoft Teams chats in attempts to phish marks in governments, NGOs, and IT businesses, according to the Windows giant.… This

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Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks 03/08/2023 at 23:46 By Lindsay Clark Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos’ space firm says Blue Origin, the off-planet enterprise owned by Jeff Bezos, has told staff to get back to the office for a five-day week – a move which

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Old-school hacktivism is back because it never went away 03/08/2023 at 22:47 By Laura Dobberstein Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS Hacktivism may have dropped off of organization radars over the past few years, but it is now very visibly coming from what is believed to be Bangladesh,

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Microsoft yanks internal Windows 11 testing tool soon after release 03/08/2023 at 22:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Redmond bugs out of that side quest Microsoft yesterday released then quickly pulled an internal tool for enabling experimental Windows 11 features.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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97% of execs expect firms will be highly impacted by AI in a year 03/08/2023 at 21:46 By A new report shows that three in four business leaders find generative AI will be a top three emerging technology over the next 12-18 months.   This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS

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Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans 03/08/2023 at 21:32 By Liam Proven ‘Play sports and live longer’ apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks The Lacros project – a contrived acronym for Linux and Chrome OS* – is an internal Google development project with a goal that may sound bizarre: to

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NASA and pals complete Artemis II recovery dress rehearsal 03/08/2023 at 20:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo One more box checked in humanity’s quest to return to the Moon NASA has cleared another hurdle toward sending humans back to the Moon with the successful completion of its first Artemis II recovery test mission.… This article is an

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TSA updates gas pipeline cybersecurity guidelines 03/08/2023 at 20:02 By The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is updating its security directive and guidelines for oil and natural gas pipeline cybersecurity. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Malicious Apps Use Sneaky Versioning Technique to Bypass Google Play Store Scanners 03/08/2023 at 20:02 By Threat actors are leveraging a technique called versioning to evade Google Play Store’s malware detections and target Android users. “Campaigns using versioning commonly target users’ credentials, data, and finances,” Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) said in its August 2023 Threat Horizons

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Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results 03/08/2023 at 19:04 By Thomas Claburn Browsermaker says search service promotes privacy Brave Software, maker of the Brave web browser, has tuned its search engine to run on a homegrown index of images and videos in an effort to end its

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Hundreds of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Servers Hacked in Major Cyber Attack 03/08/2023 at 18:31 By Hundreds of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway servers have been breached by malicious actors to deploy web shells, according to the Shadowserver Foundation. The non-profit said the attacks take advantage of CVE-2023-3519, a critical code injection vulnerability that could lead to

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New Version of Rilide Data Theft Malware Adapts to Chrome Extension Manifest V3 03/08/2023 at 18:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of malware called Rilide that targets Chromium-based web browsers to steal sensitive data and steal cryptocurrency. “It exhibits a higher level of sophistication through modular design, code obfuscation, adoption to the Chrome Extension Manifest

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