Category: AI in news
Social media fuels conspiracies galore after Donald Trump is shot at a rally, cryptocurrency websites are hijacked after a screw-up at Squarespace, and our guest takes a close look at bottoms on Instagram. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley…
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Network security controls are no longer reliable or sufficient. They are easily evaded, prone to false positives, and feed a costly ecosystem of alert management and incident response. According to pen testing by Positive Technologies, an external attacker can breach an organization’s network perimeter in 93% of cases. This is unacceptable, and you no longer…
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Jul 17, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated variant of a known stealer malware that attackers affiliated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have delivered as part of prior cyber espionage campaigns targeting job seekers. The artifact in question is an Apple macOS disk image (DMG) file named “MiroTalk.dmg”…
Read MoreCloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious 6.8%, to be precise. From ZDNet: However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. The scale of these attacks is staggering. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, Cloudflare blocked…
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What’s happened? A new strain of the HardBit ransomware has emerged in the wild. It contains a protection mechanism in an attempt to prevent analysis from security researchers. HardBit? I think I’ve heard of that before. Quite possibly. HardBit first emerged in late 2022, and quickly made a name for itself as it attempted to…
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Cloud networking standout Aviatrix hires Google Cloud’s director of Anthos and Google Kubernetes Enterprise as its new CTO. Cloud networking standout Aviatrix has hired former Google Kubernetes and VMware NSX all-star engineer Anirban Sengupta as its new CTO and senior vice president of engineering. Sengupta was previously Google Cloud’s senior director for Anthos and Google…
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“Most SaaS providers don’t provide multi-tenant data protection and choose to rely on data at rest encryption for all of their customers’ data,” Ho explained. “They have avoided this highly effective security control because of the overhead of implementing the code changes to encrypt data for each of their customers separately and the complexity of…
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Jul 17, 2024The Hacker NewsInsider Threats / Cybersecurity Attacks on your network are often meticulously planned operations launched by sophisticated threats. Sometimes your technical fortifications provide a formidable challenge, and the attack requires assistance from the inside to succeed. For example, in 2022, the FBI issued a warning1 that SIM swap attacks are growing: gain…
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“Internet Explorer (IE) has officially ended support on June 15, 2022,” the researchers explain. “Additionally, IE has been officially disabled through later versions of Windows 10, including all versions of Windows 11. Disabled, however, does not mean IE was removed from the system. The remnants of IE exist on the modern Windows system, though it…
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Jul 17, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Ransomware The infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has incorporated ransomware strains such as RansomHub and Qilin into its arsenal, Microsoft has revealed. Scattered Spider is the designation given to a threat actor that’s known for its sophisticated social engineering schemes to breach targets and establish persistence for follow-on exploitation…
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