The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 13.5, bringing several improvements and enhancements for Android and desktop versions. The Tor Browser is a specialized open-source web browser designed for anonymous browsing by routing the user’s traffic through thousands of volunteer-run servers called nodes/relays, which constitute the Tor network. Tor also provides access to “.onion” websites, which…
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GenAI has remained a top focus for cybersecurity vendors recently during the first half of the year, but plenty of other new products—including in SIEM, SASE and XDR—have debuted during the first half of the year. The list of cybersecurity tools utilizing generative AI continued to balloon during the first half of the year, including…
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Jun 21, 2024NewsroomPhishing Attack / Email Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing campaign that has been identified as targeting people in Pakistan using a custom backdoor. Dubbed PHANTOM#SPIKE by Securonix, the unknown threat actors behind the activity have leveraged military-related phishing documents to activate the infection sequence. “While there are many…
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ACMA’s proceedings against Optus On 20 May 2024, ACMA filed proceedings in the Federal Court against Optus alleging that during the data breach between 17 to 20 September 2022, Optus failed to protect the confidentiality of its customers’ personal information from unauthorised interference or unauthorised access as required under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. The…
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Slalom’s Chris Thomas explains the growing artificial intelligence use cases for its AI-powered robotic dog named Spot. The use cases for Slalom’s AI-powered robotic dog, Spot, are growing at a rapid pace thanks to Google’s Gemini AI and edge computing innovation. At Google Cloud Next 2024, Spot could be seen walking around and in between…
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TikTok’s legal troubles in the U.S. could get thornier after the FTC refers complaint to the DOJ. Meanwhile, France says Russia-backed Nobelium / Midnight Blizzard is a major cyber espionage threat to European governments. Plus, a Tenable poll about dealing with vulnerabilities without patches. And did LockBit 3.0 make a comeback in May? Maybe –…
Read MoreRoss Anderson’s Memorial Service The memorial service for Ross Anderson will be held on Saturday, at 2:00 PM BST. People can attend remotely on Zoom. (The passcode is “L3954FrrEF”.) Tags: cryptography, security engineering Posted on June 21, 2024 at 7:04 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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CDK Global has cautioned customers about unscrupulous actors calling them and posing as CDK agents or affiliates to gain unauthorized systems access. The warning follows ongoing cyberattacks that have hit CDK, forcing the company to shut down its customer support channels and take most of its systems offline. CDK Global is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that thousands of US…
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However, to defeat detection, the scripts first performed checks to ensure the user was not operating in a virtual machine or sandbox (a common way for researchers to vet suspicious sites without compromising their machines); if a VM or sandbox was detected, the script exited without performing its malicious activities. ClickFix Another threat actor popped…
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Jun 21, 2024NewsroomMalware / Malvertising A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster (aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader). That’s according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious payloads that users are redirected to after searching for them…
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