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India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million 2024-02-19 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Paytm’s merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast India’s government has effectively killed an e-wallet service used by over 300 million people.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Russian-Linked Hackers Breach 80+ Organizations via Roundcube Flaws 2024-02-19 at 07:46 By Threat actors operating with interests aligned to Belarus and Russia have been linked to a new cyber espionage campaign that likely exploited cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Roundcube webmail servers to target over 80 organizations. These entities are primarily located in Georgia, Poland,

Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation 2024-02-19 at 07:32 By Laura Dobberstein Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they’ll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the ‘net Twenty prominent names in tech have signed an accord outlining their intentions to

Iranian Hackers Target Middle East Policy Experts with New BASICSTAR Backdoor 2024-02-19 at 07:01 By The Iranian-origin threat actor known as Charming Kitten has been linked to a new set of attacks aimed at Middle East policy experts with a new backdoor called BASICSTAR by creating a fake webinar portal. Charming Kitten, also called APT35, CharmingCypress, Mint

A visa to fill Australia’s empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value 2024-02-19 at 05:33 By Simon Sharwood Application process gets a massive overhaul For decades, Australia has failed to train enough IT pros to satisfy local employers’ needs. The nation’s solution to the shortfall has involved issuing visas to skilled

Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew 2024-02-19 at 03:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns infosec in brief  The US government is offering bounties up to $15 million as a reward for anyone willing to help it

Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to … anthrax? 2024-02-18 at 18:31 By Jessica Lyons Unsettling reading as Presidents’ Day approaches In time for the long Presidents’ Day weekend in the US there have been multiple warnings about what will undoubtedly be a challenging and potentially dangerous year for voting processes and government

FBI’s Most-Wanted Zeus and IcedID Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty 2024-02-18 at 09:47 By A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to his role in two different malware schemes, Zeus and IcedID, between May 2009 and February 2021. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Vyacheslav Igoravich Andreev, father, and tank), 37, was arrested by Swiss authorities in October

How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites 2024-02-17 at 13:46 By Thomas Claburn We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI’s GPT-4 and other neural nets AI models, the subject of ongoing safety concerns about harmful and biased output, pose a risk beyond content emission. When wedded with tools that enable automated interaction

How Businesses Can Safeguard Their Communication Channels Against Hackers 2024-02-17 at 10:46 By Efficient communication is a cornerstone of business success. Internally, making sure your team communicates seamlessly helps you avoid friction losses, misunderstandings, delays, and overlaps. Externally, frustration-free customer communication is directly correlated to a positive customer experience and higher satisfaction.  However, business communication

Google Open Sources Magika: AI-Powered File Identification Tool 2024-02-17 at 09:49 By Google has announced that it’s open-sourcing Magika, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool to identify file types, to help defenders accurately detect binary and textual file types. “Magika outperforms conventional file identification methods providing an overall 30% accuracy boost and up to 95% higher precision

Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others 2024-02-17 at 04:16 By Katyanna Quach Cool, but it’s 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML Google has open sourced Magika, an in-house machine-learning-powered file identifier, as part of its AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which aims

FTC asks normal folks if they’d like AI impersonation scam protection, too 2024-02-17 at 01:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Fakers face the wrath of Khan The FTC is moving to make not only the fraudulent AI impersonation of government and business folk illegal but is also now asking the American public if they’d like some protection

Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms 2024-02-17 at 00:47 By Thomas Claburn Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? Where’s the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying Democratic lawmakers once again have proposed legislation to ensure that the software source code used for criminal investigations can be examined and is

Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G 2024-02-17 at 00:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo One giant leap for astronaut medicine The world’s first remote-operated robot space surgeon has been successfully tested, the team behind the device said this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Oxide reimagines private cloud as… a 3,000-pound blade server? 2024-02-16 at 22:47 By Tobias Mann Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash Analysis  Over the past few years we’ve seen a number of OEMs, including Dell, HPE, and others trying to make on-prem

Japan’s Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026 2024-02-16 at 21:01 By Dan Robinson Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work Japan’s Rakuten Mobile says it plans to offer a satellite-based mobile service that will support standard smartphones starting from 2026, although the satellites to provide this capability have yet

Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords 2024-02-16 at 19:47 By Liam Proven Project hails from its original motherland of Russia Russian developer Maxim Dounin has announced a new fork of the Nginx web server and caching proxy, aimed at avoiding the corporate control of owner F5.… This article is an excerpt

Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer 2024-02-16 at 18:50 By Connor Jones Nearly a decade on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List after getting banks to empty vics’ accounts A Ukrainian cybercrime kingpin who ran some of the most pervasive malware operations faces 40 years in prison after spending nearly a decade

CISA Warning: Akira Ransomware Exploiting Cisco ASA/FTD Vulnerability 2024-02-16 at 18:50 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it’s being likely exploited in Akira ransomware attacks.