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The Drop in Ransomware Attacks in 2024 and What it Means 2024-04-08 at 14:31 By The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 5,070. But 2024 is starting off showing a very different picture. While the numbers skyrocketed in Q4 2023 with 1309 cases, in Q1 2024, the […]

Watch Out for ‘Latrodectus’ – This Malware Could Be In Your Inbox 2024-04-08 at 14:31 By Threat hunters have discovered a new malware called Latrodectus that has been distributed as part of email phishing campaigns since at least late November 2023. “Latrodectus is an up-and-coming downloader with various sandbox evasion functionality,” researchers from Proofpoint and Team Cymru said in

A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS 2024-04-08 at 14:16 By Richard Speed Easter egg in test build could have scrambled Microsoft’s reputation More than 30 years before the xz backdoor became the near disaster of the week, an intern tried to sneak some unexpected code into MS-DOS. Not a backdoor, but potentially a

What happened to agility and new business models? Cloud benefits have all gone to IT 2024-04-08 at 13:32 By Lindsay Clark Orgs are missing a trick when it comes to the white fluffy stuff, survey says The migration of IT workloads to the cloud is benefiting tech departments rather than the wider business, according to

Tele2 secure collaboration hub for public sector keeps Swedish data in Sweden 2024-04-08 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Data sovereignty is eftersökt these days A Swedish telco has rolled a collaboration platform for public sector organizations worried about sensitive data leaving Sweden.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cybercriminals Targeting Latin America with Sophisticated Phishing Scheme 2024-04-08 at 12:16 By A new phishing campaign has set its eyes on the Latin American region to deliver malicious payloads to Windows systems. “The phishing email contained a ZIP file attachment that when extracted reveals an HTML file that leads to a malicious file download posing

Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a get out of jail card 2024-04-08 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins We’ve done it once, we can do it again Opinion  The Sleepwalking Into Disaster klaxon is echoing through the corridors of power. Again. This time, the corridors are British and the klaxonner is the Cabinet Office’s

Use of India’s CBDC declines, but central bank presses ahead 2024-04-08 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Work to make the digital rupee programmable has begun India’s Reserve Bank deputy governor has revealed that transaction volumes using the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) have trended downwards since December 2023 – and may even have been

Google Sues App Developers Over Fake Crypto Investment App Scam 2024-04-08 at 09:01 By Google has filed a lawsuit against two app developers for engaging in an “international online consumer investment fraud scheme” that tricked users into downloading bogus Android apps from the Google Play Store and other sources and stealing their funds under the guise of

Cloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition 2024-04-08 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AI Cloud Software Group (CSG) and Microsoft have renewed their alliance for another eight years, this time with a $1.65 billion commitment for the Group

Proactive security: Identify the precursors of violence 2024-04-08 at 07:16 By Proactive security strategies to help detect and prevent workplace violence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Insider risk: Don’t ignore the community context 2024-04-08 at 07:16 By Managing insider risk means also managing the environmental factors that may cause them. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Naver debuts multilingual HyperCLOVA X LLM it will use to build sovereign AI for Asia 2024-04-08 at 06:32 By Laura Dobberstein Because English isn’t the only language Korean web giant Naver last week debuted a family of large language models named HyperCLOVA X, which it claimed perform better at cross-lingual reasoning in Asian languages than

Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves 2024-04-07 at 13:31 By Thomas Claburn Study finds workers’ sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation Robots may make companies more productive, as some studies have suggested, but they make people feel that their jobs have less meaning.… This article is an excerpt from

What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama? 2024-04-06 at 19:16 By Iain Thomson What happened, how it was found, and what your vultures have made of it all Kettle  It’s been about a week since the shock discovery of a hidden and truly sophisticated backdoor in the xz

Hackers Exploit Magento Bug to Steal Payment Data from E-commerce Websites 2024-04-06 at 13:31 By Threat actors have been found exploiting a critical flaw in Magento to inject a persistent backdoor into e-commerce websites. The attack leverages CVE-2024-20720 (CVSS score: 9.1), which has been described by Adobe as a case of “improper neutralization of special elements” that

AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of surveyed executives 2024-04-06 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Biz leaders optimistic it can reduce living, breathing cost centers… er, valued workers A survey of senior biz executives reveals that 41 percent expect to have a smaller workforce in five years due to the implementation of AI technologies.… This

Huawei’s Iran sanctions evasion trial pushed to 2026 2024-04-06 at 01:46 By Dan Robinson Meng Wanzhou is home, but the case is far from over Huawei looks set to face trial in 2026 over charges that it misled banks and Washington about historic business dealings in Iran in breach of US sanctions.… This article is

Google sues app devs, claims they’re Play Store crypto scammers with 100k+ victims 2024-04-06 at 00:46 By Connor Jones The pair allegedly made 87 apps since 2019 and defrauded folks of tens of thousands of dollars Google is suing two Chinese app developers claiming they allegedly spent years creating fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps that were

Microsoft warns that China is using AI to stir the pot ahead of US election 2024-04-05 at 23:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Beware random inflammatory questions on social media – they may come from a threat actor With the US presidential election looming, China is stepping up its disinformation game with increased use of AI, Microsoft’s