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U.S. DoJ Indicts North Korean Hacker for Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals 2024-07-26 at 12:01 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment against a North Korean military intelligence operative for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks against healthcare facilities in the country and funneling the payments to orchestrate additional intrusions into defense, […]

Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse 2024-07-26 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can’t cope with new demands Bosses expect artificial intelligence software to improve productivity, but workers say the tool does the opposite, according to a survey by find-a-workplace research org the Upwork Research Institute,

CrowdStrike Warns of New Phishing Scam Targeting German Customers 2024-07-26 at 09:31 By CrowdStrike is alerting about an unfamiliar threat actor attempting to capitalize on the Falcon Sensor update fiasco to distribute dubious installers targeting German customers as part of a highly targeted campaign. The cybersecurity company said it identified what it described as an

Ongoing Cyberattack Targets Exposed Selenium Grid Services for Crypto Mining 2024-07-26 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign that’s leveraging internet-exposed Selenium Grid services for illicit cryptocurrency mining. Cloud security Wiz is tracking the activity under the name SeleniumGreed. The campaign, which is targeting older versions of Selenium (3.141.59

UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pact 2024-07-26 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Pick a hot market – AI, quantum, chips, 6G – and the pair have a plan to work on it together The UK and India agreed on Wednesday to a broad “Technology Security Initiative” that will see the two nations collaborate

Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user biz, emerges with promise of ‘AI-infused autonomous workspace’ 2024-07-26 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood We think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny Omnissa, the newly independent business created by Broadcom’s spinoff of VMWare’s end-user compute arm, has proclaimed it will become a source of “AI-infused autonomous workspaces”.… This article

Critical Flaw in Telerik Report Server Poses Remote Code Execution Risk 2024-07-26 at 08:16 By Progress Software is urging users to update their Telerik Report Server instances following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6327 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts Report Server version 2024

One year after SEC cyber disclosure ruling, security leaders weigh in 2024-07-26 at 07:16 By With a year in the rearview mirror, security professionals are reflecting on the SEC cyber disclosure ruling. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, NASA – and even China 2024-07-26 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged a North Korean national over a series of

Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank 2024-07-26 at 04:46 By Matthew Connatser May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers Infosec researchers have discovered a network of over three thousand malicious GitHub accounts used to spread malware, targeting groups including gamers, malware researchers, and even other threat actors

CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain’t covering it all 2024-07-26 at 03:46 By Matthew Connatser We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9) The cost of CrowdStrike’s apocalyptic Falcon update that brought down millions of Windows computers last week may be in the billions of dollars, and insurance isn’t covering most of

Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI 2024-07-26 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Team America AI Police? Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others. …

Beware of fake CrowdStrike domains pumping out Lumma infostealing malware 2024-07-26 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons PSA: Only accept updates via official channels … ironically enough CrowdStrike is the latest lure being used to trick Windows users into downloading and running the notorious Lumma infostealing malware, according to the security shop’s threat intel team, which

OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT – not that you’re allowed to use it yet 2024-07-25 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser Launching in Beta is so 2014. We’re in the pre-Beta limited sign-up era now After months of speculation, shy and retiring OpenAI has showed the world a glimpse of its very own web search

FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted 2024-07-25 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn’t see this as much of a problem Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of

NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers 2024-07-25 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo 900 Mbps from Earth to orbit, and I still can’t get reliable Wi-Fi in my backyard Jealous of the fact that the International Space Station has better internet than you do? Well, here’s one more benchmark

Oracle’s Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK 2024-07-25 at 21:16 By Lindsay Clark Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence? Only 14 percent of Oracle Java subscribers plan to stay on Big Red’s runtime environment, according to a study following the introduction of an employee-based subscription model.…

Uncle Sam accuses telco IT pro of decade-long spying campaign for China 2024-07-25 at 20:31 By Connor Jones Beijing has a long history of recruiting US residents to carry out various espionage activities The US is looking to prosecute a Chinese immigrant over claims he has been drip-feeding information of interest to Beijing since at

Microsoft adds generative search to its Bing engine 2024-07-25 at 19:49 By Richard Speed Looks a lot like Google’s AI Overviews, hopefully without some of the early unfortunate summaries Microsoft is adding generative search to Bing despite the search engine’s market share showing no increase after prior AI tech additions.… This article is an excerpt

How organizations can save CISOs amidst increasing federal regulations 2024-07-25 at 19:16 By How can an organization save its CISO? It starts with four key strategies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source