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New FjordPhantom Android Malware Targets Banking Apps in Southeast Asia 01/12/2023 at 16:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new sophisticated Android malware called FjordPhantom that has been observed targeting users in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam since early September 2023. “Spreading primarily through messaging services, it combines app-based malware with social engineering to […]

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office 01/12/2023 at 16:17 By Richard Speed Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers Amazon Web Services has scooped up almost half a billion pounds of UK taxpayer cash in return for public cloud Hosting Services.… This article is an

Tips to recruit and retain employees in cybersecurity talent shortage 01/12/2023 at 16:01 By In an effort to redirect the conversation and make a change, here are five steps organizations can take to attract and retain cybersecurity professionals in this market. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry 01/12/2023 at 15:18 By Liam Proven Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year Two of the most popular “traditional” – read Windows-like – desktops happened to land the same version number at once.… This article is an excerpt from The

Chinese Hackers Using SugarGh0st RAT to Target South Korea and Uzbekistan 01/12/2023 at 14:33 By A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a malicious campaign that targets the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users with a remote access trojan called SugarGh0st RAT. The activity, which commenced no later than August 2023,

Qakbot Takedown Aftermath: Mitigations and Protecting Against Future Threats 01/12/2023 at 14:33 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware and botnet. While the operation was successful in disrupting this long-running threat, concerns have arisen as it appears that Qakbot may

Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data 01/12/2023 at 14:17 By Katyanna Quach This one weird trick will blow the large language model’s artificial mind ChatGPT can be made to regurgitate snippets of text memorized from its training data when asked to repeat a single word over and over

WhatsApp’s New Secret Code Feature Lets Users Protect Private Chats with Password 01/12/2023 at 13:51 By Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform. The feature has been described as an “additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if

Discover How Gcore Thwarted Powerful 1.1Tbps and 1.6Tbps DDoS Attacks 01/12/2023 at 13:51 By The most recent Gcore Radar report and its aftermath have highlighted a dramatic increase in DDoS attacks across multiple industries. At the beginning of 2023, the average strength of attacks reached 800 Gbps, but now, even a peak as high as 1.5+ Tbps is unsurprising. To

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document … then vanished 01/12/2023 at 13:18 By Paul Kunert Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat NHS Fife is on the wrong end of a stern ticking off by Britain’s data regulator after it made a howling privacy

Small but mighty, 9Front’s ‘Humanbiologics’ is here for the truly curious 01/12/2023 at 12:33 By Liam Proven Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies 9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever.… This article is an

U.S. Treasury Sanctions North Korean Kimsuky Hackers and 8 Foreign Agents 01/12/2023 at 11:47 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned the North Korea-linked adversarial collective known as Kimsuky as well as eight foreign-based agents who are alleged to have facilitated sanctions evasion. The agents, the

Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect 01/12/2023 at 10:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol’s trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler.… This article is an excerpt

Zyxel Releases Patches to Fix 15 Flaws in NAS, Firewall, and AP Devices 01/12/2023 at 10:01 By Zyxel has released patches to address 15 security issues impacting network-attached storage (NAS), firewall, and access point (AP) devices, including three critical flaws that could lead to authentication bypass and command injection. The three vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2023-35138 (CVSS

Thirty-nine weeks: that’s how long you’ll be waiting for an AI server from Dell 01/12/2023 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite Dell has told investors that demand for AI servers has surged, but buyers will be forced to wait 39 weeks to get their

You’re so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages 01/12/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood Fake it ’til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL re:Invent  By The Register‘s count, Amazon Web Services has made at least 192 product announcements in the last four days

Zero-Day Alert: Apple Rolls Out iOS, macOS, and Safari Patches for 2 Actively Exploited Flaws 01/12/2023 at 07:48 By Apple has released software updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild on older versions of its software. The vulnerabilities, both

Today’s ‘China is misbehaving online’ allegations come from Google, Meta 01/12/2023 at 06:04 By Simon Sharwood Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan Meta and Google have disclosed what they allege are offensive cyber ops conducted by China.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system 01/12/2023 at 04:49 By Thomas Claburn After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue The former IT administrator of a public high school has agreed to plead guilty to a computer abuse charge for deactivating student and staff accounts, wiping some profiles, and disabling

Potential sat-bothering cannibal coronal mass ejection slams into Earth’s atmo tonight 01/12/2023 at 03:17 By Katyanna Quach And where folks are likely to see a light show A so-called cannibal coronal mass ejection is set to hit Earth on December 1, creating geomagnetic storms across the skies at higher latitudes.… This article is an excerpt