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North Korea’s Lazarus Group Deploys New Kaolin RAT via Fake Job Lures 2024-04-25 at 20:47 By The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT. The malware could, “aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected file and […]

Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting 2024-04-25 at 20:17 By Connor Jones Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 2024-04-25 at 19:47 By Dan Robinson Watch out Intel … Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.… This article is an

Spotify claims Apple wants ‘tax’ for in-app pricing tweak 2024-04-25 at 19:02 By Matthew Connatser App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem.… This article is an excerpt from The

DARPA’s latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself 2024-04-25 at 18:20 By Brandon Vigliarolo Crew entirely optional DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout 2024-04-25 at 17:33 By Lindsay Clark Europe’s largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Birmingham City Council, Europe’s biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run

The real space race: Inside geopolitics and security of a $1.8T industry 2024-04-25 at 17:33 By In episode 22 of the Cybersecurity & Geopolitical Discussion, our trio of hosts debate the geopolitical and security dimensions of the current global space industry.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom 2024-04-25 at 17:17 By Laura Dobberstein Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing – so much so that it has pushed the world’s second largest memory maker, SK

Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers 2024-04-25 at 16:47 By Connor Jones Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this

Meta’s value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money 2024-04-25 at 16:02 By Richard Speed Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? Meta’s shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back

Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May 2024-04-25 at 15:47 By Dan Robinson Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results Crisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of €48 million ($51 million) for calendar Q1.… This

FTC issues refunds to Ring customers following privacy settlement 2024-04-25 at 15:17 By The FTC issues refunds after a settlement with Ring over charges the company allowed employees and contractors to access consumers’ private videos. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Japan’s Moon lander makes it through another lunar night 2024-04-25 at 15:01 By Richard Speed What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Network Threats: A Step-by-Step Attack Demonstration 2024-04-25 at 14:46 By Follow this real-life network attack simulation, covering 6 steps from Initial Access to Data Exfiltration. See how attackers remain undetected with the simplest tools and why you need multiple choke points in your defense strategy. Surprisingly, most network attacks are not exceptionally sophisticated, technologically advanced, or reliant on zero-day

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison 2024-04-25 at 14:17 By Thomas Claburn The software redemption Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of prison.… This article is

DOJ Arrests Founders of Crypto Mixer Samourai for $2 Billion in Illegal Transactions 2024-04-25 at 13:46 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2 billion in illegal transactions and for laundering more than $100 million in criminal proceeds.

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell 2024-04-25 at 13:31 By Richard Currie The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420 Picture Boston Dynamics’ nightmare fuel robot dog Spot. Now imagine it 1,000 percent more terrifying.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft and Amazon’s AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble 2024-04-25 at 12:46 By Connor Jones Tech giants confident everything’s in order UK regulators want to hear from “interested third parties” on whether Microsoft and Amazon’s investments in AI startups is impeding competition.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes 2024-04-25 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark ‘Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can’t be by locking in users,’ says process mining lead BMW’s process mining leader has called for greater openness among enterprise application and software vendors

Forget the AI doom and hype, let’s make computers useful 2024-04-25 at 10:33 By Bruce Davie Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today’s hypesters Systems Approach  Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the