Month: June 2024
Following massive customer pushback after it announced the new AI-powered Recall for Copilot+ PCs last month, Microsoft says it will update the feature to be more secure and require customers to opt in to enable it. To further improve the feature’s privacy and security, the company will also require users to prove that they’re in…
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Researchers disclose a critical severity vulnerability affecting PHP installations and provide proof-of-concept exploit code, which could lead to remote code execution. Background On June 6, maintainers of PHP released updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting installations where PHP is used in CGI mode. As part of a coordinated release, researchers at DEVCORE published a…
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For the week ending June 7, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Cisco Systems, SAP, Workday, Intel and AMD. The Week Ending June 7 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Cisco Systems, which launched a $1 billion global AI investment fund to make strategic…
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the LightSpy spyware allegedly targeting Apple iOS users is in fact a previously undocumented macOS variant of the implant. The findings come from both Huntress Labs and ThreatFabric, which separately analyzed the artifacts associated with the cross-platform malware framework that likely possesses capabilities to infect Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux,…
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Jun 07, 2024The Hacker NewsCyber Hygiene / Webinar 2023 was a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. Ransomware crippled businesses, DDoS attacks disrupted critical services, and data breaches exposed millions of sensitive records. The cost of these attacks? Astronomical. The damage to reputations? Irreparable. But here’s the shocking truth: many of these attacks could have been prevented…
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The two malware programs are so similar that it’s hard to tell their code apart, the Symantec researchers said, noting that the only differences are an added sleep command to RansomHub’s variant and the commands that are available to execute through the Windows command line shell cmd.exe. However, these commands are configurable in the malware…
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With more than half of SAP customers still running on older ERP application sets, partners like Lemongrass are stepping up and leveraging the Rise with SAP software and services to help customers with their cloud migration and digital transformation projects. SAP channel partner Lemongrass is expanding its services portfolio to help businesses and organizations migrate…
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A 16-year-old youth has been arrested in France on suspicion of having run a malware-for-rent business. The unnamed Frenchman, who goes by online handles including “ChatNoir” and “Casquette”, is said to be a key member of the Epsilon hacking group, which has in the recent past stolen millions of records from the likes of French…
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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) reports about a new campaign dubbed “SickSync,” launched by the UAC-0020 (Vermin) hacking group in attacks on the Ukrainian defense forces. The threat group is linked to the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) region, which Russia has occupied almost in its entirety since October 2022. The hacker’s activities commonly…
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The change reportedly could be disclosed soon as the company’s optional multifactor authentication has come under scrutiny. Snowflake reportedly plans to switch over to having MFA turned on by default for users of its cloud data platform, amid a number of data theft attacks linked to compromised Snowflake accounts. CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy (pictured) told Runtime…
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