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Cyber Espionage Alert: LilacSquid Targets IT, Energy, and Pharma Sectors 2024-05-30 at 19:16 By A previously undocumented cyber espionage-focused threat actor named LilacSquid has been linked to targeted attacks spanning various sectors in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia as part of a data theft campaign since at least 2021. “The campaign is geared […]

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Salesforce expects lowest quarterly growth in two decades 2024-05-30 at 18:17 By Lindsay Clark Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant Salesforce has disappointed investors by posting revenue below expectation and forecasting sales for the next quarter at the lowest level of growth for more than two decades.…

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RedTail Crypto-Mining Malware Exploiting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Vulnerability 2024-05-30 at 18:01 By The threat actors behind the RedTail cryptocurrency mining malware have added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Palo Alto Networks firewalls to its exploit arsenal. The addition of the PAN-OS vulnerability to its toolkit has been complemented by updates to the malware,

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Best Buy was the top most impersonated brand in 2023 2024-05-30 at 17:46 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released data on which brands were most often impersonated by scammers, and which scams were the most costly. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Cybercriminals raid BBC pension database, steal records of over 25,000 people 2024-05-30 at 17:16 By Connor Jones This just in: We lost your personal info, but here’s 2 years’ worth of Experian The BBC has emailed more than 25,000 current and former employees on one of its pension schemes after an unauthorized party broke into

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Researchers Uncover Active Exploitation of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities 2024-05-30 at 17:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned that multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue administrator accounts for follow-on exploitation. “These vulnerabilities are found in various WordPress plugins and are prone to unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting

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IT worker sued over ‘vengeful’ cyber harassment of policeman who issued a jaywalking ticket 2024-05-30 at 16:02 By Connor Jones His hospital employer is also being sued for not stepping in sooner In an ongoing civil lawsuit, an IT worker is accused of launching a “destructive cyber campaign of hate and revenge” against a police

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How to Build Your Autonomous SOC Strategy 2024-05-30 at 15:32 By Security leaders are in a tricky position trying to discern how much new AI-driven cybersecurity tools could actually benefit a security operations center (SOC). The hype about generative AI is still everywhere, but security teams have to live in reality. They face constantly incoming

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Promising results for osteoarthritis treatments tested in space 2024-05-30 at 15:16 By Richard Speed More work needed to translate ISS success into something that can be used on Earth Boffins have used conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to try out treatments for posttraumatic osteoarthritis.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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3 ways to safeguard identity and insurance in the age of AI 2024-05-30 at 15:16 By Three key technologies and practices enable businesses to ensure the health of insurance in the age of generative AI. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Europol Shuts Down 100+ Servers Linked to IcedID, TrickBot, and Other Malware 2024-05-30 at 14:46 By Europol on Thursday said it shut down the infrastructure associated with several malware loader operations such as IcedID, SystemBC, PikaBot, SmokeLoader, Bumblebee, and TrickBot as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Endgame. “The actions focused on

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IBM spin-off Kyndryl accused of discriminating on basis of age, race, disability 2024-05-30 at 14:31 By Thomas Claburn Five current and former employees file formal charges with US employment watchdog Exclusive  Kyndryl, the IT services firm spun out of IBM, has been accused by multiple employees within its CISO Defense security group of discrimination on

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Pretty much all of the headaches affecting MSPs are due to cybersecurity 2024-05-30 at 13:47 By Connor Jones More cybercrime means more problems and understaffed teams stretched to the limit Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today’s market.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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AI future: Nvidia boffin hopes ‘everything that moves will eventually be autonomous’ 2024-05-30 at 12:46 By Thomas Claburn Welcome to the ‘agentic’ era Video  The GenAI Summit 2024 opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, and the people, who came to hear about artificial intelligence, had made a mess

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U.S. Dismantles World’s Largest 911 S5 Botnet, with 19 Million Infected Devices 2024-05-30 at 12:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as “likely the world’s largest botnet ever,” which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to

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Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers 2024-05-30 at 11:52 By Dan Robinson Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue NAND flash industry revenue is surfing a growth wave thanks to demand for solid state drives (SSDs) in AI servers, meaning increased prices for

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Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze 2024-05-30 at 11:02 By Chris Williams As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs Analysis  Arm this week announced the availability of new top-end CPU and GPU designs ready made for system-on-chips for laptops, smartphones, and similar personal electronics. These cores

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Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Customer Identity Cloud 2024-05-30 at 10:24 By Okta is warning that a cross-origin authentication feature in Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is susceptible to credential stuffing attacks orchestrated by threat actors. “We observed that the endpoints used to support the cross-origin authentication feature being attacked via credential stuffing for

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Lenovo claims Dell has run off the VxRails and can’t sell hyperconverged VMware 2024-05-30 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Big Mike’s server shack offered a cryptic response. PLUS: Nutanix results Lenovo has claimed that Dell’s breakup with VMware by Broadcom goes deep – so deep that Virtzilla’s ex-owner is currently unable to sell jointly engineered

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Indian stock exchange finally encrypting all messages to traders 2024-05-30 at 08:49 By Laura Dobberstein Requests for pricing will soon be encrypted, after implementation deadline was extended India’s Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has told market participants they need to adopt encryption – which, shockingly, isn’t already implemented – for certain messages sent to its trading

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