The Register - Anti-Virus

Simple stuff like slapping on a logo fools more folks and travels further

As hundreds of millions of voters around the globe prepare to elect their leaders this year, there's no question that trolls will try to sway the outcomes using AI, according to Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center.…

Cloud cyber resilience model could raise $700M despite $278M losses

Cloud security provider Rubrik has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange following a flurry of similar flotations.…

Victims of the powerful surveillance tool will soon find out the truth

Former Polish government officials may face criminal charges following an investigation into their use of the notorious spyware Pegasus to surveil political opponents and others.…

This follows attack on NHS services in Scotland last week

The cyber skids at INC Ransom are claiming responsbility for the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Leicester City Council, according to a post caught by eagle-eyed infosec watchers.…

Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs

It was 20 years ago on Monday that Google unleashed Gmail on the world, and the chocolate factory is celebrating with new rules that just might, hopefully, cut down on the amount of spam users receive.…

Ye cannae change the laws of physics, but you can change your mind

Opinion  Apple is good at security. It's good at processors. Thus GoFetch, a major security flaw in its processor architecture, is a double whammy.…

Plus: Google Cloud ANZ boss departs; Japan revives airliner ambitions; China-linked attackers target Asian entities

Asia in brief  Singapore's Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named "COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases" (COSMIC for short, obviously) to target money laundering and terrorism financing.…

At least not until Redmond's government edition is ready to roll

Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a version tailored to the needs of government users.…

This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that's not a defense strategy

Analysis  The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had it not been caught by luck and atypical curiosity about latency from a Microsoft engineer.…

Also, TheMoon botnet back for EoL SOHO routers, Sellafield to be prosecuted for 'infosec failures', plus critical vulns

Infosec in brief  Nearly a year on from the discovery of a massive data theft at healthcare biz Harvard Pilgrim, and the number of victims has now risen to nearly 2.9 million people in all US states.…

Theresa Payton on why US needs a national privacy law

Interview  Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be banned in the USA.…

Still claims the personal info wasn't stolen from its systems

AT&T confirmed over the weekend that more than 73 million records of its current and former customers dumped on the dark web in mid-March do indeed describe its subscribers, though it still denies the data came direct from its systems.…

Code shines up nicely in production, says Chocolate Factory's Bergstrom

Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are twice as productive using the language compared to C++.…

STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected

Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression software library xz may be present in instances of Fedora Linux 40 and the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution.…

CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins

A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at least 5.14 and 6.6.14. …

Vendor takes hardline approach to patch disclosure to new levels

Updated  JetBrains TeamCity users are urged to apply the latest version upgrade this week after the vendor disclosed 26 new security issues in the CI/CD web application.…

Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more

Fallen crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried has been jailed for 25 years after New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan expressed disbelief at almost every argument from his legal team.…

Flaws enable privilege escalation and remote code execution

Nvidia's AI-powered ChatRTX app launched just six week ago but already has received patches for two security vulnerabilities that enabled attack vectors, including privilege escalation and remote code execution.…