Uncategorized

Meta and SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain 2024-06-24 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion  When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the […]

RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations 2024-06-24 at 11:31 By A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name RedJuliett, describing it

DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results 2024-06-24 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood It’s not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published the results of an exercise that assessed whether quantum computers will deliver on

India to build re-usable launch vehicle after nailing third landing of mini-spaceplane 2024-06-24 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Next: more work on crewed mission, including space yoga for astronauts India’s Space Research Organization has signalled its intention to build a reusable launch vehicle after a third test of an unpowered experimental precursor again nailed its

Multiple Threat Actors Deploying Open-Source Rafel RAT to Target Android Devices 2024-06-24 at 08:31 By Multiple threat actors, including cyber espionage groups, are employing an open-source Android remote administration tool called Rafel RAT to meet their operational objectives by masquerading it as Instagram, WhatsApp, and various e-commerce and antivirus apps. “It provides malicious actors with

Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game 2024-06-24 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit Analysis  Samsung has teased its entry into the GPU industry, but its plans are obscure.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

A workplace security framework: Mitigating employee-related threats 2024-06-24 at 07:16 By The prevalence of non-violent acts perpetrated by former employees is often underreported and underestimated, yet their impact can be just as devastating.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward 2024-06-24 at 05:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren’t; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief  The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims – and even one of the

Risk of getting malicious extension from Chrome store way worse than Google’s letting on, study suggests 2024-06-23 at 13:46 By Thomas Claburn All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged

Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here’s how to get started 2024-06-22 at 17:31 By Tobias Mann In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that’s another story Hands on  Large language models (LLMs) are generally associated with chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, but they’re by

ExCobalt Cyber Gang Targets Russian Sectors with New GoRed Backdoor 2024-06-22 at 15:01 By Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. “ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious

Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers 2024-06-22 at 15:01 By A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. “The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes,” cybersecurity

From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What’s up with the Kaspersky US ban? 2024-06-22 at 11:31 By Iain Thomson It’s been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle  The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and

U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban 2024-06-22 at 09:16 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department. The move “underscores

Apple Intelligence won’t be available in Europe because Tim’s terrified of watchdogs 2024-06-22 at 02:20 By Thomas Claburn These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that’s totally why we’re doing this Apple has delayed plans to deploy artificial intelligence features in Europe because the American giant is unhappy with the continent’s privacy regulations.… This

Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew 2024-06-22 at 00:48 By Jessica Lyons ‘Substantial proportion’ of America to get a note from next month Change Healthcare is formally notifying some of its pharmacy and hospital customers that their patients’ data was stolen from it by ransomware criminals back

Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky’s top bosses – but not Mr K himself 2024-06-21 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Here’s America’s list of the supposedly dirty dozen Uncle Sam took another swing at Kaspersky Lab today and sanctioned a dozen C-suite and senior-level executives at the antivirus maker, but spared CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky.… This

Tesla sued for ‘systemic’ racism at its Fremont, California plant 2024-06-21 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Campus faces yet another racial discrimination lawsuit as Clean Air Act violations claims also hit the fan Yet another lawsuit was this week filed against Tesla citing a “systemically … racially hostile work environment” at the company’s Fremont, California

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update 2024-06-21 at 21:46 By Liam Proven Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar Firefox remains the browser of choice for many, but the latest update has lost users’ tabs and makes it much more apparent when they have private tabs open, missing the point of

AT&T forbidden from cutting landline services to large parts of California 2024-06-21 at 20:47 By Matthew Connatser Telecoms company will remain a carrier of last resort per CPUC ruling AT&T will have to continue operating landlines in California despite its wish to cut off the less lucrative line of business, the California Public Utilities Commission