Sep 29, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Malware The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been linked to a cyber espionage attack targeting an unnamed aerospace company in Spain in which employees of the firm were approached by the threat actor posing as a recruiter for Meta. “Employees of the targeted company were contacted by a fake recruiter […]
Progress Software has borne minimal impact from the mass exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in its file-transfer service MOVEit despite supply chain compromises that have affected more than 2,100 organizations. Researchers say the data of at least 62 million people has been exposed by the attacks. Progress reported $951,000 in cyber incident and vulnerability response […]
Sep 29, 2023The Hacker NewsQuantum Computing / Network Security Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it’s keeping them up tonight. Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to protect their fundamental […]
In February 2023, Microsoft disclosed its new AI-assisted search engine, Bing Chat, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Even though Google has been dominating the search industry for years, this event was significant enough to generate not only interest but also plant the seed for a possible change in the balance in the future. Considering that tech giants […]
The National Security Agency is consolidating its various artificial intelligence efforts into a new hub, its director announced Thursday. The Artificial Intelligence Security Center will become the spy agency’s “focal point” for AI activities such as “leveraging foreign intelligence insights,” helping to develop best practices guidelines for the fast-developing technology and creating “risk frameworks for […]
The Budworm advanced persistent threat (APT) group continues to actively develop its toolset. Most recently, the Threat Hunter Team in Symantec, part of Broadcom, discovered Budworm using an updated version of one of its key tools to target a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization and an Asian government. Both attacks occurred in August 2023. Budworm (aka LuckyMouse, Emissary Panda, […]
Andrew Brookes/Getty Images Financial institutions are hot favorites among cybercriminals, with those in Asia-Pacific among the most targeted by malicious bot requests and API (application programming interface) attacks. Malicious bot traffic in Asia-Pacific including Japan climbed 128% from last year, as hackers turned to bots for scale, efficiency, and impact. The region was the second-most […]
This month’s best new modules include delay and interface modules from Intellijel, a powerful drum module from Flame, and a cheeky little acid voice from ADDAC. Intellijel Sealegs and Stomp Intellijel’s Sealegs is a stereo delay module, but as you’d expect from the Canadian Eurorack veterans, there’s more to it than that. The heart of […]