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Vietnamese Human Rights Group Targeted in Multi-Year Cyberattack by APT32 2024-08-29 at 19:17 By A non-profit supporting Vietnamese human rights has been the target of a multi-year campaign designed to deliver a variety of malware on compromised hosts. Cybersecurity company Huntress attributed the activity to a threat cluster known as APT32, a Vietnamese-aligned hacking crew […]

Verizon taps another satellite operator to make texting from the middle of nowhere easier 2024-08-29 at 18:47 By Dan Robinson iPhone-like functionality coming to other devices on the network soon Verizon has teamed up with another satellite operator to offer US customers a commercial direct-to-device messaging service for when a terrestrial cell network is not

Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard 2024-08-29 at 17:47 By Richard Speed Time to make e-commerce great again instead? Mikhail Parakhin, the former Windows boss who pledged to “make Start Menu great again” before departing Microsoft shortly after, has popped up as CTO of e-commerce outfit Shopify.… This

Fintech outfit Klarna swaps humans for AI by not replacing departing workers 2024-08-29 at 16:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Insists it’s not cutting jobs and pays harder-to-automate people more with AI savings Buy-now-pay-later outfit Klarna’s CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is so thrilled with the performance of AI at his business that he’s planning to shrink the human

Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak 2024-08-29 at 15:47 By Connor Jones French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games Nearly four weeks after the cyberattack on dozens of French national museums during the Olympic Games, the Brain Cipher ransomware group claims responsibility for the incident and says

More than 650,000 education records exposed in the past 60 days 2024-08-29 at 15:16 By More than 650,000 records across various educational institutions have been exposed in the last 60 days.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

76% of MSPs faced an infrastructure cyberattack in last 12 months 2024-08-29 at 15:16 By MSP security was analyzed in a recent report finding that 76% of MSPs spotted a cyberattack on their infrastructure within the last 12 months. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

U.S. Agencies Warn of Iranian Hacking Group’s Ongoing Ransomware Attacks 2024-08-29 at 14:46 By U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have called out an Iranian hacking group for breaching multiple organizations across the country and coordinating with affiliates to deliver ransomware. The activity has been linked to a threat actor dubbed Pioneer Kitten, which is also

Unpatched AVTECH IP Camera Flaw Exploited by Hackers for Botnet Attacks 2024-08-29 at 14:46 By A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in question, is a “command injection vulnerability found in the brightness

How AitM Phishing Attacks Bypass MFA and EDR—and How to Fight Back 2024-08-29 at 14:46 By Attackers are increasingly using new phishing toolkits (open-source, commercial, and criminal) to execute adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. AitM enables attackers to not just harvest credentials but steal live sessions, allowing them to bypass traditional phishing prevention controls such as MFA,

DataVita declares sovereignty with ‘National Cloud’ for UK 2024-08-29 at 14:31 By Dan Robinson Scottish provider promises no hidden fees, full control, and safe haven for data British hosting biz DataVita has launched what it calls “National Cloud,” a service offering clients data residency within the UK, and claims to have full transparency over costs,

Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans 2024-08-29 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Isn’t the education system in enough trouble already? The UK government is set to equip teachers with AI tools to help them “mark and plan lessons.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Hangover from messy Walmart tech divorce ongoing at Asda 2024-08-29 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Brit grocer suffers IT issues with clothing orders, self-scanning, and store picker app The UK’s third-largest grocery retailer continues to see its IT operations beset with problems as it struggles with its fraught divorce from US retail giant Walmart.… This

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry’s biggest fails 2024-08-29 at 11:46 By Liam Proven As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive Part 2: The 16-bit era  Welcome back to The Reg FOSS desk’s roundup of the slip-ups and missteps from the dawn of the microcomputer industry onward