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New AMBERSQUID Cryptojacking Operation Targets Uncommon AWS Services 18/09/2023 at 16:16 By A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The malicious cyber activity has been codenamed AMBERSQUID by cloud and container security firm Sysdig. “The […]

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California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop 18/09/2023 at 15:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, LockBit gets a new second stringer, AirTag owners find yet another illicit use, and this week’s critical vulns Infosec in brief  Californians may be on their way to the nation’s first “do not broker” list with the passage

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Having read the room, Unity goes back to drawing board on runtime fee policy 18/09/2023 at 15:04 By Richard Currie But the damage has already been done Hell hath no fury like a developer scorned, and Unity is finding out the hard way after poorly received adjustments to its runtime policy last week.… This article

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Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2 18/09/2023 at 14:32 By Richard Speed AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS’s paths less travelled in search of compute As cloud native computing continues to gain popularity, so does the risk posed by criminals seeking to exploit the unwary. One newly spotted method targets services on the

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Mention AI in earnings calls … and watch that share price leap 18/09/2023 at 13:33 By Dan Robinson This week’s story is brought to you by the letters C, E, O, as well as B and S Readers may have noticed there’s a great deal of interest in AI at the moment but can the

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Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns 18/09/2023 at 11:33 By Jude Karabus At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers… “Nobody in this country wants there to be programmable digital currency like the Chinese system, where the government can basically

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Retool Falls Victim to SMS-Based Phishing Attack Affecting 27 Cloud Clients 18/09/2023 at 10:17 By Software development company Retool has disclosed that the accounts of 27 of its cloud customers were compromised following a targeted and SMS-based social engineering attack. The San Francisco-based firm blamed a Google Account cloud synchronization feature recently introduced in April 2023 for

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South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight 18/09/2023 at 09:50 By Laura Dobberstein Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership South Korean telecom SK Broadband and Netflix have called a truce in their dispute over who should pay for the trillions of bits of video

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MSSP Alert Names Trustwave to 2023 Top 250 MSSPs List 18/09/2023 at 09:19 By For the seventh consecutive year, Trustwave has been named a Top 10 Managed Security Services Provider by MSSP Alert.  This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit 18/09/2023 at 08:05 By Laura Dobberstein Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel’s portfolio Global investment firm KKR will acquire a 20 percent stake in the regional datacenter business of major telecom conglomerate Singtel – a move intended to expand its Asian

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Financially Motivated UNC3944 Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Ransomware Attacks 18/09/2023 at 07:18 By The financially motivated threat actor known as UNC3944 is pivoting to ransomware deployment as part of an expansion to its monetization strategies, Mandiant has revealed. “UNC3944 has demonstrated a stronger focus on stealing large amounts of sensitive data for extortion purposes and they

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37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million 18/09/2023 at 06:49 By Simon Sharwood CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of SaaS project management outfit 37Signals, has posted an update on the cloud repatriation project he’s led, writing

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Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible 18/09/2023 at 05:33 By Laura Dobberstein We’re rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics Researchers have developed a method to reuse plastics – including those employed in electronics, computers

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SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe 18/09/2023 at 04:33 By Simon Sharwood PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more! Asia In Brief  SK hynix Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho has denied doing business with Huawei and called for further investigation of the memory in the

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Gandalf chatbot security game counters privacy fireballs 17/09/2023 at 17:47 By Thomas Claburn You shall not pass judgement, Lakera AI insists, because exposed player info was harmless Gandalf, an educational game designed to teach people about the risks of prompt injection attacks on large language models (LLMs), until recently included an unintended expert level: a

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North Korea’s Lazarus Group Suspected in $31 Million CoinEx Heist 17/09/2023 at 10:46 By The North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group has stolen nearly $240 million in cryptocurrency since June 2023, marking a significant escalation of its hacks. According to multiple reports from Certik, Elliptic, and ZachXBT, the infamous hacking group is said to be suspected behind the theft of

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TikTok Faces Massive €345 Million Fine Over Child Data Violations in E.U. 16/09/2023 at 16:16 By The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped TikTok with a €345 million (about $368 million) fine for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to its handling of children’s data. The investigation, initiated in September

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Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads 16/09/2023 at 12:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Oh s#!t, Sherlock Israeli software maker Insanet has reportedly developed a commercial product called Sherlock that can infect devices via online adverts to snoop on targets and collect data about them for the biz’s clients.… This article

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Scattered Spider traps 100+ victims in its web as it moves into ransomware 16/09/2023 at 00:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Mandiant warns casino raiders are doubling down on ‘monetization strategies’ Scattered Spider, the crew behind at least one of the recent Las Vegas casino IT security breaches, has already hit some 100 organizations during its

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TSMC’s outlook is so fuzzy it’s reportedly stalling fab machine deliveries 15/09/2023 at 21:32 By Tobias Mann SEMI predicts factory equipment spending will slide another 15% before rebounding in 2024 Faced with uncertain market conditions, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is said to have temporarily delayed delivery of some advanced chipmaking equipment.… This article is

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