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Researchers Uncover Backdoor in Solana’s Popular Web3.js npm Library 2024-12-04 at 12:04 By Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a software supply chain attack targeting the popular @solana/web3.js npm library that involved pushing two malicious versions capable of harvesting users’ private keys with an aim to drain their cryptocurrency wallets. The attack has been detected in […]

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Fresh releases of Xfce, Mint, Cinnamon desktops out in time for the holidays 2024-12-04 at 11:34 By Liam Proven Cinnamon 6.4 is already out and Xfce 4.20 is very nearly ready Fancy spending time refreshing your setup over the holidays? Two of the more popular Windows-style FOSS desktops are about to drop new point releases,

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Eurocops take down ‘secure’ criminal chat system known as Matrix 2024-12-04 at 10:40 By Iain Thomson They took the red pill French and Dutch police have taken down the Matrix chat app, which was designed by criminals for criminals to be a secure encrypted messaging tool.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst 2024-12-04 at 09:33 By Laura Dobberstein Differing China tech policy agendas will send bromance into ‘it’s complicated’ status Canalys Forums APAC  The CEO and founder of channel-centric analyst house Canalys has predicted that the alliance between president-elect Donald Trump and aspiring oligarch Elon Musk will

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Joint Advisory Warns of PRC-Backed Cyber Espionage Targeting Telecom Networks 2024-12-04 at 09:21 By A joint advisory issued by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. has warned of a broad cyber espionage campaign undertaken by People’s Republic of China (PRC)-affiliated threat actors targeting telecommunications providers. “Identified exploitations or compromises associated with these threat actors’

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£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds 2024-12-04 at 08:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Yes, we’ve been over this before – several times, in fact Microsoft has been sued in the UK to the tune of more than £1 billion over claims Redmond has been overcharging businesses for Windows Server licenses

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Binance accused of tax evasion by India’s finance minister 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Simon Sharwood Nation wants almost $100 million from 17 crypto exchanges – most of it from Binance India’s Finance Ministry has alleged crypto exchange Binance evaded almost $85 million in tax – the vast majority of around $96 million it claims digi-dollar

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Hackers Use Corrupted ZIPs and Office Docs to Evade Antivirus and Email Defenses 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a novel phishing campaign that leverages corrupted Microsoft Office documents and ZIP archives as a way to bypass email defenses. “The ongoing attack evades #antivirus software, prevents uploads to sandboxes, and bypasses

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Critical SailPoint IdentityIQ Vulnerability Exposes Files to Unauthorized Access 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SailPoint’s IdentityIQ identity and access management (IAM) software that allows unauthorized access to content stored within the application directory. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-10905, has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. It

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Veeam Issues Patch for Critical RCE Vulnerability in Service Provider Console 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Veeam has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting Service Provider Console (VSPC) that could pave the way for remote code execution on susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-42448, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of

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New phishing-as-a-service platform targets Microsoft 365 2024-12-04 at 07:21 By New phishing-as-a-service platform steals Microsoft 365 credentials via large-scale adversary-in-the-middle attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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RISC-V’s AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion 2024-12-04 at 06:04 By Tobias Mann Architecture may be good for more than cut-rate SoCs and high-volume microcontrollers after all RISC-V chip designer Tenstorrent has won $693 million of investment – an endorsement of its plans to use the permissively licensed instruction set architecture for workloads like

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FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the metre 2024-12-04 at 04:52 By Iain Thomson ‘Where we go is who we are’ totally isn’t a creepy ad slogan at all The FTC has reached a settlement with two data brokerages over allegations they harvested precise location data that shows when people

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AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows 2024-12-04 at 03:19 By Thomas Claburn Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft’s OS at pleasing speed re:Invent  Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman opened the cloud computing service’s 13th annual re:Invent conference by

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Perfect 10 directory traversal vuln hits SailPoint’s IAM solution 2024-12-04 at 01:48 By Connor Jones 20-year-old info disclosure class bug still pervades security software It’s time to rev up those patch engines after SailPoint disclosed a perfect 10/10 severity vulnerability in its identity and access management (IAM) platform IdentityIQ.… This article is an excerpt from

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Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year 2024-12-03 at 23:36 By Richard Speed We’re sure you’ll learn to love the new Outlook for Windows app Microsoft is preparing to kill off the old Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps by the end of this month and

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SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset 2024-12-03 at 22:26 By Richard Speed Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is approaching what could be its final year of operations as it hits the 29th

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Major energy contractor reports ‘limited’ access to IT after ransomware locks files 2024-12-03 at 22:26 By Jessica Lyons ENGlobal customers include the Pentagon as well as major oil and gas producers American energy contractor ENGlobal disclosed that access to its IT systems remains limited following a ransomware infection in late November.… This article is an

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