LightSpy, a malware deployed in a 2020 watering hole attack against iOS users, has been found to be embedded with a set of 14 plugins that are responsible for private data exfiltration. Researchers have attributed the malware to the Chinese state-sponsored APT41 group, which previously had used DragonEgg and WyrmSpy spyware to target Android users. […]
Oct 04, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Vulnerability A new Linux security vulnerability dubbed Looney Tunables has been discovered in the GNU C library’s ld.so dynamic loader that, if successfully exploited, could lead to a local privilege escalation and allow a threat actor to gain root privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue is a […]
Oct 03, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Chipmaker Qualcomm has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities in various components, while warning that three other zero-days have come under active exploitation. Of the 17 flaws, three are rated Critical, 13 are rated High, and one is rated Medium in severity. “There are indications from Google Threat […]
This news story was updated on September 4, 2023, to reflect an update given regarding the cyber security incident by Duolingo. The scraped data of more than 2.6 million users of language learning app, Duolingo, has been posted to a dark web hacking forum. The information was put up for sale on a dark web […]
Bill Brewster tells all about his After Dark latest pic: Dan Medhurst “It’s just a great excuse to call up people you like and ask ask them for music!” Bill Brewster laughs down the phone line to us from his home in Bedford with all the confidence of someone who knows they’ve got the best […]
Last updated 5 September, 2023 One of the first things DJs wanting to get into making music usually buy is an audio interface, and the Focusrite Scarlett audio interfaces are as close as you get to an “industry standard” at the budget end of the market. And now, all three of these interfaces have been […]
LA’s clipping. back in UK for their biggest show yet Returning to London less than a year since their double bill at the Tufnell Park Dome and Fabric last November, tonight Los Angeles based industrial harsh-noise hip-hop trio clipping. mark their biggest London show to date at the recently opened Here at Outernet. Known for […]
Aiming to give users more flexibility in deploying mainframes, IBM delivered a new rack-mounted Z16 system containing the same capabilities of its standalone Z16, including AI inferencing and quantum-safe cryptography. The single-frame and rack-mounted designs of the new Z16, available with LinuxOne Rockhopper 4 options, makes the system more practical for space-constrained data centers and […]