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Cybercriminals turn to pen testers to test ransomware efficiency
2024-11-22 05:00

Ransomware gangs recruit pen testers to improve attack reliability Threat actors employ pen testers to improve ransomware effectiveness Threat actors are recruiting pen testers to test and improve...

China's Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in 'test-run' for US telecom attacks
2024-11-06 02:30

Alleged intrusion spotted in June Chinese government cyberspies Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecommunications over the summer as part of their ongoing attacks against critical...

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...

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...

Fake password manager coding test used to hack Python developers
2024-09-11 21:09

Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware. [...]

Developers Beware: Lazarus Group Uses Fake Coding Tests to Spread Malware
2024-09-11 09:46

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious Python packages that target software developers under the guise of coding assessments. "The new samples were tracked to GitHub...

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare
2024-08-22 10:32

Needless to say, it backfired in a big way University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) students may be relieved to hear that an emailed warning about a staff member infected with the Ebola virus...

Too late now for canary test updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike
2024-08-01 18:40

In what will likely be one of many class-action complaints against the embattled IT security firm, a retirement association has accused CrowdStrike, its CEO George Kurtz, and CFO Burt Podbere of defrauding it and fellow shareholders by making false and misleading statements about the biz's Falcon endpoint defense software. CrowdStrike and its top execs "Repeatedly touted the efficacy of the Falcon platform while assuring investors that CrowdStrike's technology was 'validated, tested, and certified,'" the Plymouth County Retirement Association's lawsuit [PDF], filed this week in Texas federal court, reads.

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made
2024-07-24 05:17

CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week. Rapid response content is delivered in those channel files as so-called "Template instances," which CrowdStrike describes as "Instantiations of a given template type." Thus, the rapid response content relies on template code defined by the base sensor content, and each piece of this response content is a template instance.

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made
2024-07-24 05:17

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.…