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Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

The Register - Anti-Virus - 28 Březen, 2024 - 08:30
Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme

Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers.…

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China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams

The Register - Anti-Virus - 28 Březen, 2024 - 06:28
Report claims Beijing is most displeased by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements

The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country.…

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Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests

The Register - Anti-Virus - 28 Březen, 2024 - 00:06
Beware support calls offering a fix

Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…

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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Březen, 2024 - 23:26
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.…

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'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Březen, 2024 - 22:40
Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders

Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency.…

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Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Březen, 2024 - 17:30
I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case...

To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta – when it was operating as Facebook – allegedly initiated a program called Project Ghostbusters, which intercepted data traffic from mobile apps. And it used that data to harm its competitors' ad business.…

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Miscreants are exploiting enterprise tech zero days more and more, Google warns

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Březen, 2024 - 16:00
Crooks know where the big bucks are

The discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in enterprise-specific software and appliances appears to be outpacing the leveraging of zero-day bugs overall, judging by Google's latest research.…

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Street newspaper appears to have Big Issue with Qilin ransomware gang

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Březen, 2024 - 13:00
The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are over

The parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.…

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The easy road to pervasive DLP

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Březen, 2024 - 05:16
How Forcepoint Data Security Everywhere does what it says on the tin

Sponsored Post  The coronavirus pandemic appears to have changed the employment landscape forever, with estimates suggesting that up to a quarter of staff still spend some of their working week outside of the office compared to just 6 percent prior to 2020.…

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Uncle Sam's had it up to here with 'unforgivable' SQL injection flaws

The Register - Anti-Virus - 26 Březen, 2024 - 18:45
Software slackers urged to up their game

The US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with "unforgivable" vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws.…

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Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

VirusList.com - 31 Srpen, 2022 - 14:57
2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.
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Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

VirusList.com - 30 Srpen, 2022 - 18:00
Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
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Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

VirusList.com - 29 Srpen, 2022 - 16:56
Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

VirusList.com - 26 Srpen, 2022 - 18:44
Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.
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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

VirusList.com - 25 Srpen, 2022 - 20:47
Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.
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