Category: Viral
“This acquisition supports our commitment to delivering cutting-edge IoT solutions and strengthens our position as a leader in intelligence at the edge,” said Qualcomm’s Nakul Duggal. Chipmaker Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Sequans Communications’ 4G IoT technology for $200 million in a move to significantly enhance the company’s semiconductor portfolio around the Internet of…
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Oct 01, 2024The Hacker NewsGenerative AI / Data Protection Since its emergence, Generative AI has revolutionized enterprise productivity. GenAI tools enable faster and more effective software development, financial analysis, business planning, and customer engagement. However, this business agility comes with significant risks, particularly the potential for sensitive data leakage. As organizations attempt to balance productivity…
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More than 140,000 phishing websites have been found linked to a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz over the past year, indicating that it’s being used by a large number of cybercriminals to conduct credential theft. “For prospective phishers, Sniper Dz offers an online admin panel with a catalog of phishing pages,” Palo Alto Networks…
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances to join a malicious Docker Swarm controlled by the threat actor. This enabled the attackers to “use Docker Swarm’s orchestration features for command-and-control (C2) purposes,” Datadog researchers Matt Muir and Andy Giron said in an…
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Oct 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananCorporate Security / Financial Fraud The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national for perpetrating a hack-to-trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook of London was arrested last week and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges…
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A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets…
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The settlement comes after an FCC investigation into a major 2021 breach as well as three other incidents at T-Mobile in 2022 and 2023. T-Mobile will pay $31.5 million in connection with a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over a series of four breaches from 2021 to 2023, the agency announced Monday. The…
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‘There’s only so much you can learn by watching others,’ Microsoft GM Herain Oberoi said. Herain Oberoi, Microsoft general manager for data security, privacy and compliance, called work around artificial intelligence and security “a huge opportunity for partners” — especially in areas such as helping customers understand AI risks, building applications that address those risks…
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Verizon users on Monday woke up to a nationwide outage that the telecom giant said is currently being dealt with. Telecom giant Verizon started the week with a sweeping outage as hundreds of thousands of users reported issues ranging from impacted mobile phones to total service blackouts. Reports of issues started to flood in on…
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A critical-severity flaw in Nvidia Container Toolkit and GPU Operator impacts AI applications and more than a third of cloud environments, according to Wiz researchers. A recently discovered critical-severity Nvidia vulnerability poses a “serious risk” for the security of data, according to researchers that uncovered the issue. The flaw (tracked at CVE-2024-0132) impacts Nvidia Container…
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