‘The refresh is still ahead of us. We have only started to see that. And we continue to believe that this opportunity is coming,’ HP CEO Enrique Lores said during the company’s quarterly earnings call. HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores told analysts on Wednesday’s quarterly earnings call that the majority of the PC refresh cycle…
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Demand for the company’s Hopper GPUs remains strong, Nvidia executives said during the company’s fiscal 2025 Q2 earnings call Wednesday, which highlighted 122-percent revenue growth to more than $30 billion. Samples of Nvidia’s much-anticipated Blackwell-architecture GPUs are currently shipping to Nvidia partners and customers, according to company executives, with production expected to ramp up in…
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The Russian state-sponsored APT29 hacking group has been observed using the same iOS and Android exploits created by commercial spyware vendors in a series of cyberattack between November 2023 and July 2024. The activity was discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) who said the n-day flaws have already been patched, but remain effective on…
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Aug 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Vulnerability A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in question, is a “command injection vulnerability found in the brightness function of AVTECH closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that…
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Attackers are increasingly using new phishing toolkits (open-source, commercial, and criminal) to execute adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. AitM enables attackers to not just harvest credentials but steal live sessions, allowing them to bypass traditional phishing prevention controls such as MFA, EDR, and email content filtering. In this article, we’re going to look at what AitM phishing…
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U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have called out an Iranian hacking group for breaching multiple organizations across the country and coordinating with affiliates to deliver ransomware. The activity has been linked to a threat actor dubbed Pioneer Kitten, which is also known as Fox Kitten, Lemon Sandstorm (formerly Rubidium), Parisite, and UNC757, which it described…
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Angler employed advanced evasion techniques, including checking for virtual machines and sandbox environments to avoid detection by security researchers, leading to its popularity and significance in the cybersecurity community. Angler’s activities ceased abruptly in mid-2016, reportedly, due to law enforcement actions in Russia against cybercriminals allegedly linked to Angler. First charged in 2023 The Belarusian…
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2024 looks set to be the highest-grossing year yet for ransomware gangs, due – in no small part – to emboldened cybercriminals causing costly disruption at larger companies. Read more in my article on the Exponential-e blog. Source link lol
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Hackers who seized control of the official Instagram account of McDonald’s claim that they managed to steal US $700,000 from unsuspecting investors by promoting a fake cryptocurrency. Earlier this month, hackers promoted a worthless cryptocurrency token they dubbed “GRIMACE” to the 5.1 million people following McDonald’s Instagram account. At the same time, tweets from the…
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If you’ve been in cybersecurity for the past five to 10 years, you’ve probably heard the term “threat-informed defense.” Simply stated, a threat-informed defense focuses security teams, technologies, and budgets on those threats most likely to impact a particular organization, industry, geography, etc. The concept basically aligns with the famous (and often referenced) quote from…
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