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79% of organizations say bots are more difficult to detect 12/10/2023 at 20:17 By Bot attacks were analyzed in a recent report by Kasada, finding that bot attacks were becoming increasingly difficult to detect by security teams. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Beijing-backed server chip startup formed by ex-Arm China execs 12/10/2023 at 19:47 By Dan Robinson Almost a quarter of SoftBank-owned chip designer’s total revenue comes via Middle Kingdom, um, arm China could prove problematic for Arm once more, amid claims key staff from its local subsidiary have left to form a server chip design biz

Engineers pave the way for building lunar roads with Moon dust 12/10/2023 at 18:47 By Lindsay Clark Just melt it with lasers, say researchers in Germany Researchers in Germany’s proof-of-concept study shows solar energy could be harnessed to turn lunar dust into paving for landing pads and roads.… This article is an excerpt from The

DARPA worried battlefield mixed reality vulnerable to ‘cognitive attacks’ 12/10/2023 at 17:50 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hacks, physical tricks could turn headsets into vomit extractors, but tests already show no ops needed for that DARPA is launching a program to head off “cognitive attacks” for mixed reality headsets that could, in theory, cripple future warfighters when

Encrypted pager use on the rise in healthcare since 2022 12/10/2023 at 17:50 By Healthcare communication methods were analyzed in a recent report by Spok Holdings, including budget constraints and security concerns. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Malicious NuGet Package Targeting .NET Developers with SeroXen RAT 12/10/2023 at 17:01 By A malicious package hosted on the NuGet package manager for the .NET Framework has been found to deliver a remote access trojan called SeroXen RAT. The package, named Pathoschild.Stardew.Mod.Build.Config and published by a user named Disti, is a typosquat of a legitimate package

Everest cybercriminals offer corporate insiders cold, hard cash for remote access 12/10/2023 at 15:47 By Connor Jones The ransomware gang changes identities more than Jason Bourne The Everest ransomware group is stepping up its efforts to purchase access to corporate networks directly from employees amid what researchers believe to be a major transition for the

ShellBot Uses Hex IPs to Evade Detection in Attacks on Linux SSH Servers 12/10/2023 at 15:01 By The threat actors behind ShellBot are leveraging IP addresses transformed into its hexadecimal notation to infiltrate poorly managed Linux SSH servers and deploy the DDoS malware. “The overall flow remains the same, but the download URL used by

Starlink starts advertising Direct to Cell satellite phone service as coming in ‘2024’ 12/10/2023 at 14:47 By Dan Robinson Slated to work with existing 4G phones, though space rivals still trying to shoot it down SpaceX’s Starlink is advertising a Direct to Cell satellite phone service due to start next year and which it claims

Microsoft Defender Thwarts Large-Scale Akira Ransomware Attack 12/10/2023 at 14:31 By Microsoft on Wednesday said that a user containment feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped thwart a “large-scale remote encryption attempt” made by Akira ransomware actors targeting an unknown industrial organization in early June 2023. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team is tracking the operator as

How to Guard Your Data from Exposure in ChatGPT 12/10/2023 at 14:31 By ChatGPT has transformed the way businesses generate textual content, which can potentially result in a quantum leap in productivity. However, Generative AI innovation also introduces a new dimension of data exposure risk, when employees inadvertently type or paste sensitive business data into

US construction giant unearths concrete evidence of cyberattack 12/10/2023 at 14:02 By Paul Kunert Simpson Manufacturing yanks systems offline, warns of ongoing disruption Simpson Manufacturing Company yanked some tech systems offline this week to contain a cyberattack it expects will “continue to cause disruption.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cilium leaves incubator, gets the nod from Cloud Native Computing Foundation 12/10/2023 at 13:17 By Richard Speed eBPF project jumps from ‘just a network plugin’ moves to begin wide adoption The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has awarded a graduated sash to Cilium, a validation of the maturity and future of the eBPF project.… This

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors ‘unappointable’ 12/10/2023 at 12:33 By Lindsay Clark Mangled mismatch of formats, macros, and VLOOKUP practice hits wannabe anesthetists Exclusive  Computer errors, bad technology choices, and flawed processes have disrupted the recruitment of trainee anesthetists in England and Wales.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Researchers Uncover Malware Posing as WordPress Caching Plugin 12/10/2023 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new sophisticated strain of malware that masquerades a WordPress plugin to stealthily create administrator accounts and remotely control a compromised site. “Complete with a professional looking opening comment implying it is a caching plugin, this rogue

Brit competition regulator will make or break Vodafone and Three union 12/10/2023 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert Interested parties invited to speak now or forever hold your peace Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority is asking the mobile industry for feedback on Vodafone’s local merger with Three to determine if the agreement could negatively impact rivals,

AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds 12/10/2023 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with ’20 cents’ of API tickling The “guardrails” created to prevent large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content have been shown to be very fragile.… This article is an

Google’s third-party cookie culling to begin in Q1 2024 … for 1% of Chrome users 12/10/2023 at 09:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo And in full swing by next October Google has decided to kick third-party cookies out of its Chrome browser for one percent of users in early 2024, and to banish the web trackers entirely

Researchers Uncover Ongoing Attacks Targeting Asian Governments and Telecom Giants 12/10/2023 at 09:31 By High-profile government and telecom entities in Asia have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign since 2021 that’s designed to deploy basic backdoors and loaders for delivering next-stage malware. Cybersecurity company Check Point is tracking the activity under the name Stayin’

EU consultation on future telecoms cools on having big tech pay for network builds 12/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood €1.5 trillion needed in the next five years – some to turf Huawei – and nobody’s quite sure where to find it The European Commission’s consultation on the future of the bloc’s telecoms sector has