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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found on Spanish Beach
2024-10-25 21:01

A giant squid has washed up on a beach in Northern Spain. Blog moderation policy.

Black Basta ransomware poses as IT support on Microsoft Teams to breach networks
2024-10-25 20:55

The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack. [...]

Black Basta poses as IT support on Microsoft Teams to breach networks
2024-10-25 20:55

The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack. [...]

Russia sentences REvil ransomware members to over 4 years in prison
2024-10-25 18:58

Russia has sentenced four members of the REvil ransomware operation to over 4 years in prison for distributing malware and illegal circulation of means of payment. [...]

Change Healthcare Cyberattack Exposed Data of Over 100 Million People
2024-10-25 18:37

Personal information from one-third of Americans could have been affected in the $22 million ransomware attack, which has been attributed to the BlackCat gang.

Amazon seizes domains used in rogue Remote Desktop campaign to steal data
2024-10-25 16:41

Amazon has seized domains used by the Russian APT29 hacking group in targeted attacks against government and military organizations to steal Windows credentials and data using malicious Remote...

Just how private is Apple's Private Cloud Compute? You can test it to find out
2024-10-25 15:04

Also updates bug bounty program with $1M payout In June, Apple used its Worldwide Developer Conference to announce the creation of the Private Cloud Compute platform to run its AI Intelligence...

Enter the World of Ethical Hacking with Confidence
2024-10-25 14:31

This $44.99 bundle gives you 92 hours of training in penetration testing, network security, and much more.

Watermark for LLM-Generated Text
2024-10-25 13:56

Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with...

Researchers Discover Command Injection Flaw in Wi-Fi Alliance's Test Suite
2024-10-25 13:41

A security flaw impacting the Wi-Fi Test Suite could enable unauthenticated local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) said the...