A new malware campaign is spreading a previously undocumented backdoor named “Voldemort” to organizations worldwide, impersonating tax agencies from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As per a Proofpoint report, the campaign started on August 5, 2024, and has disseminated over 20,000 emails to over 70 targeted organizations, reaching 6,000 in a single day at the…
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HP veteran Stephanie Dismore continues to be a ‘Ryzen’ star in the industry as she takes a new role heading up the EMEA business for chip vendor AMD. HP Inc. Managing Director of Northwest Europe Stephanie Dismore, a 25-year HP veteran, has joined rising CPU and GPU provider AMD as president of EMEA (Europe, Middle…
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The options could also include M&A or selling or splitting its foundry division, according to Bloomberg. Intel executives will consider splitting and selling a business unit as part of a turnaround strategy as rival chipmakers capture a greater share of the artificial intelligence wave, according to media reports. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor has enlisted…
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CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers is slated to testify before a subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee on Sept. 24. The U.S. House Homeland Security committee has scheduled a hearing for late September over the massive IT outage caused by CrowdStrike’s faulty July 19 update, which will include testimony from a top executive at the cybersecurity…
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North Korean hackers have exploited a recently patched Google Chrome zero-day (CVE-2024-7971) to deploy the FudModule rootkit after gaining SYSTEM privileges using a Windows Kernel exploit. “We assess with high confidence that the observed exploitation of CVE-2024-7971 can be attributed to a North Korean threat actor targeting the cryptocurrency sector for financial gain,” Microsoft said…
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This year’s leading news stories (so far) include the ongoing AI wave that’s remaking the IT industry, the impact of three multi-billion-dollar acquisition deals, the contrasting fortunes of two of the industry’s leading semiconductor companies – and what was likely the biggest IT system failure to date. AI Highs, Service Failure Lows The top news…
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‘We are offering customers choice, flexibility and control of how and where they build, train and run artificial intelligence,’ Dell Vice Chairman and COO Jeff Clarke said on the company’s second fiscal quarter earnings call. Dell Technologies revenue surged to $25 billion in its second fiscal quarter, coming in 9 percent higher than the same…
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Shahin Pirooz, a channel veteran and founder of WhiteDog, says he’s seen the massive need to bring a more-comprehensive detection and response offering to MSPs. WhiteDog Cybersecurity is seeking to drive the expansion of its MDR (managed detection and response) alternative platform through recruiting an array of new MSP partners, the company’s founder told CRN.…
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The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of illegally downloading and disseminating data stolen from the City’s IT network and leaked by the Rhysida ransomware gang. Columbus, the capital and most populous (2,140,000) city in Ohio, suffered a ransomware attack on July…
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However, there can be clues in the email or on the site. Netcraft said that sometimes threat actors accidentally include large language model (LLM) outputs in the fraudulent emails. For example, a phishing email it encountered, claiming to contain a link to a file transfer of family photos, also included the phrase, “Certainly! Here are…
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