Security News > 2023 > February
The FBI confirmed a cyber "Incident" that reportedly involved computer systems being used to investigate child sexual exploitation. "The FBI is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information," a spokesperson said in an emailed statement to The Register.
Researchers are making thermal batteries from "a synthetic material that's derived from squid ring teeth protein." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
In this interview for TechRepublic, they discussed the challenges businesses face with mobile device management as well as possible solutions. James Maguire: The mobile device management market is pretty hot - it saw about $5 billion worth of revenue last year, and it's growing about 20-25% a year.
A series of distributed denial-of-service attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights. Ralph Beisel, the general manager of Germany's ADV airport association, confirmed the network-flooding events in an emailed statement to The Register, but did not specify which airports were hit.
Europol has dismantled a Franco-Israeli 'CEO fraud' group that employed business email compromise attacks to divert payments from organizations to bank accounts under the threat actor's control. The fraudsters impersonated CEOs when approaching employees in the target organizations' financial departments and tricked them into performing payments to bank accounts under the scammer's control.
Web hosting giant GoDaddy says unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment. While GoDaddy discovered the security breach in early December 2022 following customer reports that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years.
Norwegian police have seized 60 million kroner worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group last year from Axie Infinity's Ronin Bridge. The seized cryptocurrency was stolen from Sky Mavis, the publisher of the blockchain-based game Axie Infinity, which suffered losses of $620 million in March 2022 after an attacker manipulated the game's Ronin bridge to gain partial control of its validators and perform two unauthorized transactions.
Suspected North Korean nation-state actors targeted a journalist in South Korea with a malware-laced Android app as part of a social engineering campaign. The findings come from South Korea-based non-profit Interlab, which coined the new malware RambleOn.
Bing's new AI chat has secret chat modes that can be used to change the AI bot into a personal assistant, a friend to help with your emotions and problems, a game mode to play games with Bing, or its default, Bing Search mode. Friend mode: In this mode, I can act as a friend for the user, and chat with them about their interests, hobbies, feelings, etc.
"The FBI is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information," the U.S. domestic intelligence and security service told CNN on Friday. "This is an isolated incident that has been contained. As this is an ongoing investigation the FBI does not have further comment to provide at this time."