Month: July 2024
Jul 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Online Safety Two Russian-born Australian citizens have been arrested and charged in the country for spying on behalf of Russia as part of a “complex” law enforcement operation codenamed BURGAZADA. This includes a 40-year-old woman, an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Army Private, and her husband, a 62-year-old self-employed laborer. Media…
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A wave of coordinated DNS hijacking attacks targets decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency domains using the Squarespace registrar, redirecting visitors to phishing sites hosting wallet drainers. DNS hijacking is when an attacker modifies a target’s Domain Name System records to redirect traffic from a legitimate website to one under their control, such as phishing pages. These attacks…
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The new release of the Alluxio Enterprise AI data orchestration platform makes it easier to use GPU-based systems for training and operating AI applications and to provision AI/ML systems with data at HPC levels. Alluxio has launched a new release of its data management platform for AI tasks that can better utilize high-performance GPU systems,…
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When confirming details of a massive data breach of about 110 million customers, AT&T on Friday also revealed that it became apparently the first enterprise to be given permission to initially keep breach details secret, and then was cleared to publish. The incident itself — which AT&T said stemmed from a series of Snowflake attacks…
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Pharmacy giant Rite Aid confirmed a data breach after suffering a cyberattack in June, which was claimed by the RansomHub ransomware operation. Rite Aid is the third-largest drugstore chain in the United States, employing over 6,000 pharmacists (out of a total workforce of over 45,000) in more than 1,700 retail pharmacy stores across 16 states.…
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Jul 12, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a short-lived DarkGate malware campaign that leveraged Samba file shares to initiate the infections. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said the activity spanned the months of March and April 2024, with the infection chains using servers running public-facing Samba file shares hosting Visual…
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What’s RansomHub? Despite first appearing earlier this year, RansomHub is already considered one of the most prolific ransomware groups in existence. It operates a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, meaning that a central core of the group creates and maintains the ransomware code and infrastructure, and rents it out to other cybercriminals who act as affiliates. How…
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For the week ending July 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AMD, K3 Technology, Microsoft, Orca Security and Nasuni. The Week Ending July 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is chip designer AMD for a strategic acquisition in the AI technology space.…
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Video The issue of whether to ban ransomware payments is a hotly debated topic in cybersecurity and policy circles. What are the implications of outlawing these payments, and would the ban be effective? 12 Jul 2024 Back in May, we weighed in on the UK’s apparent plan to make it illegal for critical infrastructure entities…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game I didn’t know: In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps built into its fixed memory, there lurked a first-person maze game called Lair of Squid. […] In Lair of Squid, you’re…
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