Category: Viral
Jul 30, 2024The Hacker NewsDark Web Intelligence Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill’s threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to mitigate risk. The deep and…
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Generative AI (GenAI) is making waves across the world. Its popularity and widespread use has also attracted the attention of cybercriminals, leading to various cyberthreats. Yet much discussion around threats associated with tools like ChatGPT has focused on how the technology can be misused to help fraudsters create convincing phishing messages, produce malicious code or…
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Announced at SIGGRAPH 2024, the AI computing giant is powering a new inference-as-a-service offering from Hugging Face and helping developers bring generative AI capabilities to industrial sectors like manufacturing and robotics through new microservices. Nvidia continued its push to simplify the development of AI applications by powering a new inference-as-a-service offering through model repository Hugging…
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New disclosures Monday pointed to attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in the three vendors’ platforms. New disclosures Monday revealed attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in widely used platforms from VMware, ServiceNow and Acronis. The attacks have included exploits of two critical-severity vulnerabilities in ServiceNow’s Now Platform as well as a critical vulnerability affecting Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. [Related: SentinelOne CEO:…
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CrowdStrike, AI and Copilot+ PCs are expected to come up during the quarterly earnings call Tuesday. The CrowdStrike update incident. Details on the cost and revenue from artificial intelligence. And updates on the rollout of AI PCs. Microsoft executives have a lot to cover Tuesday during the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s fourth fiscal quarter earnings…
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Morgan Stanley has checked with CrowdStrike partners and is now ‘slightly more’ confident in the vendor’s recovery despite short-term impacts to recurring revenue. While CrowdStrike will see an impact to new recurring revenue during the second half of the year in the wake of the historic Windows outage caused by its faulty update, the security…
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‘This incident shows clearly that Windows must prioritize change and innovation in the area of end-to-end resilience,’ a Microsoft executive says in a blog. Microsoft acknowledged that it must “prioritize change and innovation” for Windows following the massive CrowdStrike-caused outage to the operating system. The outage, which began July 19 and had lingering impacts for…
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Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive, is earning accolades from partners as he keeps AI at the forefront of the company’s mission and steers investments and innovation around Copilot, GenAI and more. When World Wide Technology’s Jim Kavanaugh attended Microsoft’s high-profile CEO Summit this spring, one major thing stood…
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An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security vendor Proofpoint’s defenses to send millions of messages spoofing various legitimate companies. “These emails echoed from official Proofpoint email relays with authenticated SPF and DKIM signatures, thus bypassing major security protections — all to…
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Jul 29, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Cyber Espionage The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an “evasive dropper” called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website (“chrome-web[.]com”) serving malicious installer packages masquerading as Google’s Chrome browser, indicating that…
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