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52% of Serious Vulnerabilities We Find are Related to Windows 10 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By We analyzed 2,5 million vulnerabilities we discovered in our customer’s assets. This is what we found. Digging into the data The dataset we analyze here is representative of a subset of clients that subscribe to our vulnerability scanning services. Assets […]

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NS-STEALER Uses Discord Bots to Exfiltrate Your Secrets from Popular Browsers 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Java-based “sophisticated” information stealer that uses a Discord bot to exfiltrate sensitive data from compromised hosts. The malware, named NS-STEALER, is propagated via ZIP archives masquerading as cracked software, Trellix security researcher Gurumoorthi Ramanathan said in an

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Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant’s ultrapure water 2024-01-22 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed

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ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz 2024-01-22 at 13:02 By Paul Kunert It’s all very well offering ‘Free Debt Help,’ but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog… A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor

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Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London 2024-01-22 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet’s plans for ‘future capacity needs’ Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers

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Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom 2024-01-22 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor’s roadmap Exclusive  Backup software vendor Veeam is doing early research on VMware alternative Proxmox, potentially with a view to creating a product to protect data

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FTC Bans InMarket for Selling Precise User Location Without Consent 2024-01-22 at 10:01 By The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is continuing to clamp down on data brokers by prohibiting InMarket Media from selling or licensing precise location data. The settlement is part of allegations that the Texas-based company did not inform or seek consent

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Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next 2024-01-22 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters Huawei last week detailed a major release of its HarmonyOS that will see the Chinese giant break with the Linux ecosystem.… This article

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Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman 2024-01-22 at 07:47 By Katyanna Quach ALSO: Google’s geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI AI In brief  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models.… This article is an excerpt

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NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again 2024-01-22 at 06:47 By Laura Dobberstein ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most

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Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks 2024-01-22 at 06:01 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “notable increase” in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised hosts. “The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format and are

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BreachForums admin ‘Pompourin’ sentenced to 20 years of supervised release 2024-01-22 at 04:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities in brief  Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka “Pompourin,” a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20

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Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions 2024-01-22 at 02:17 By Laura Dobberstein PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets Asia In Brief  The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter’s Quest VR hardware to China is

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Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment 2024-01-21 at 23:02 By Tobias Mann Land of the rising profit? Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years 2024-01-20 at 13:49 By An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. “UNC3886 has

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How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers 2024-01-20 at 12:17 By Thomas Claburn Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on

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CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits 2024-01-20 at 07:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) products. The

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Microsoft’s Top Execs’ Emails Breached in Sophisticated Russia-Linked APT Attack 2024-01-20 at 06:16 By Microsoft on Friday revealed that it was the target of a nation-state attack on its corporate systems that resulted in the theft of emails and attachments from senior executives and other individuals in the company’s cybersecurity and legal departments. The Windows

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Invoice Phishing Alert: TA866 Deploys WasabiSeed & Screenshotter Malware 2024-01-20 at 05:02 By The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The campaign, observed earlier this month and blocked by Proofpoint on January 11, 2024, involved sending

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Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs 2024-01-20 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they’re serious Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100

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