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Chinese State Hackers Target Tibetans with Supply Chain, Watering Hole Attacks 2024-03-07 at 16:22 By The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end of the attacks is to deliver malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS that deploy a known […]

Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks 2024-03-07 at 16:22 By Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site

Apple’s had it with Epic’s app store shenanigans, terminates dev account 2024-03-07 at 15:45 By Richard Speed No end in sight for ‘horror show’ even with EU’s DMA Epic Games has followed the tried and tested approach of sharing executive email exchanges following the termination of its developer account by Apple.… This article is an

Belgian ale legend Duvel’s brewery borked as ransomware halts production 2024-03-07 at 15:07 By Connor Jones Company reassures public it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage.… This article is

Illinois school employs ZeroEyes AI-based gun detection technology 2024-03-07 at 15:07 By The Mount Pulaski Community Unified School District has upgraded campus security measures against gun violence.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5 2024-03-07 at 14:03 By Liam Proven The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the pocket powerhouse The Raspberry Pi 5 is a capable little desktop computer, and some alternative distros give you more choices than the default Pi OS.… This article is

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings 2024-03-07 at 13:22 By Lindsay Clark Now, who was it ‘challenged’ the NHS to go paperless by 2018? The UK’s finance minister has promised the country’s National Health Service (NHS) £3.4 billion ($4.33 billion) in IT investment, claiming it would unlock £35 billion

Human vs. Non-Human Identity in SaaS 2024-03-07 at 13:22 By In today’s rapidly evolving SaaS environment, the focus is on human users. This is one of the most compromised areas in SaaS security management and requires strict governance of user roles and permissions, monitoring of privileged users, their level of activity (dormant, active, hyperactive), their

Ex-Google Engineer Arrested for Stealing AI Technology Secrets for China 2024-03-07 at 12:34 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), a former Google

HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts 2024-03-07 at 12:26 By Paul Kunert 13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more HP has 13 million customers signed up to the Instant Ink subscription program, and a recently introduced rental service that includes hardware is

Bank’s struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages 2024-03-07 at 11:36 By Lindsay Clark Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog A report on UK government debt reveals that a public sector bank relied on “people and paper” to process transactions during the pandemic as it struggled

The DMA hasn’t changed Big Tech’s anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe 2024-03-07 at 10:54 By Thomas Claburn Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality On Thursday, Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals.… This article is an excerpt from The

New Python-Based Snake Info Stealer Spreading Through Facebook Messages 2024-03-07 at 10:53 By Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason

VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws 2024-03-07 at 09:36 By Simon Sharwood Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are

Here’s something else AI can do: expose bad infosec to give cyber-crims a toehold in your organization 2024-03-07 at 08:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims

Watch Out for Spoofed Zoom, Skype, Google Meet Sites Delivering Malware 2024-03-07 at 08:39 By Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. “The threat actor is distributing Remote

US lawmakers want ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban 2024-03-07 at 08:23 By Laura Dobberstein The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too 2024-03-07 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense China’s Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has promised to launch three new rockets this year alone, and may also start to send reusable boosters into space

Toyota, Samsung, accelerate towards better EV batteries 2024-03-07 at 04:48 By Laura Dobberstein Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027 Samsung’s SDI battery-making unit has announced it will start mass production of solid state batteries in 2027, and that the parts it pushes will have energy density of 900

Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google 2024-03-07 at 03:32 By Thomas Claburn Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source