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May 23, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Network Security Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. “An analysis of this threat actor’s activity reveals long-term espionage operations…
Read MorePersonal AI Assistants and Privacy Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant: At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on their PC. To make it work, Recall records everything…
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Tenable reported the issue to the project’s maintainers on April 30, and they responded by developing a patched version of the technology, Fluent Bit 3.0.4, released May 21. Fluent Bit’s developers urged technology providers to update “immediately to keep your systems stable and secure” in a statement on their website. Vulnerabilities in cloud-based systems are…
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The attack didn’t target grid operations but could have Experts say the apparent financial motivation leads them to believe the attackers were not targeting grid operations. “Those bad guys were looking for compute devices that they could use to do computer internet-related types of extortion,” Thomas Tansy, CEO of DER Security, tells CSO. “From that…
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Memcyco Inc., provider of digital trust technology designed to protect companies and their customers from digital impersonation fraud, released its inaugural 2024 State of Website Impersonation Scams report. Notably, Memcyco’s research indicates that the majority of companies do not have adequate solutions to counter digital impersonation fraud, and that most only learn about attacks from…
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May 23, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Data Privacy Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to more powerful and versatile scripting languages such as JavaScript and…
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iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there’s a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes. Plus!…
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In July that year, NIST selected four encryption algorithms to become part of the agency’s post-quantum cryptographic standard. At the time, Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo welcomed the announcement, hailing it is “an important milestone in securing our sensitive data against the possibility of future cyberattacks from quantum computers,” and saying, “Thanks to NIST’s…
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The Microsoft Azure CTO revealed that just by changing 1% of the data set — for example, using a backdoor — an attacker could cause a model to misclassify items or produce malware. Some of these data poisoning efforts are easily demonstrated, such as the effect of adding just a small amount of digital noise…
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented threat group called Unfading Sea Haze that’s believed to have been active since 2018. The intrusion singled out high-level organizations in South China Sea countries, particularly military and government targets, Bitdefender said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “The investigation revealed a troubling trend…
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