Category: Shorts

Worm malware exploiting follina vulnerability in new wave of attacks Securonix has discovered an ongoing phishing campaign that makes use of a unique attack chain to deliver the XWorm malware on targeted systems. The attacks begin with phishing and end with an obfuscated PowerShell script. The malware is also a Swiss Army knife in that…

New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Create Convinc A new phishing-as-a-service called Greatness has been used by cybercriminals to target business users of the Microsoft 365 cloud service since at least mid-2022, Cisco Talos reports. Greatness consists of a decoy and link builder that creates highly convincing decoy and login pages. It also has features such…

Snack answers out of stock months, I want Amazon’s best Let me tell you about the white cheddar puffs. My house has been out of stock since January. I don’t want to believe what may be the painful truth: that the white crisp puffs are never coming back. Nothing else has the same sharp cheddar…

Astro home robot could bring ChatGPT-like features to Amazon’s secret AI As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, I have always wanted a Rosie the robot. The Jetsons’ mechanical housekeeper was the example I held Amazon’s Astro to when I tested the company’s first home robot — and it unsurprisingly failed. Now, according…

Chatbot features for Amazon’s Astro home robot As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, I have always wanted a Rosie the robot. The Jetsons’ mechanical housekeeper was the example I held Amazon’s Astro to when I tested the company’s first home robot — and it unsurprisingly failed. Now, according to internal documents from…

Critical PaperCut Vulnerability Threatens Education Sector The U.S. government has warned of attacks carried out by a threat actor called the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang that attempt to exploit vulnerable PaperCut servers. The agencies say the gang left ransom notes on victim systems demanding payment in exchange for decryption of encrypted files. The disclosure comes as…

Secure Collaboration Challenges: Solving Your Teams In today’s interconnected world, where organisations regularly exchange sensitive information with customers, partners and employees, secure collaboration has become increasingly vital. The risks of not protecting your sensitive data can be disastrous. How to protect it can be as disastrous as data breaches and reputational damage from data theft.…

BPFDoor: A Stealthy Variant of Linux Backdoor Deep Instinct has spotted a previously undocumented and mostly undetected variant of a Linux backdoor called BPFDoor. The malware remains an extremely stealthy and difficult to detect malware with this latest iteration, the company says. BPFDoor gets its name from the use of Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF) –…

Netgear Routers’ Flaws Expose Users to Malware, Remote Attacks, Five security flaws have been disclosed in Netgear RAX30 routers that could be chained to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution. These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to monitor users’ internet activity, hijack their internet connection, redirect traffic to malicious websites, and inject malware into their…

iFlytek launches Spark, a new AI model that can generate realistic language. iFlytek, a Chinese AI company, has announced the launch of its new natural language processing (NLP) model, iFLY-GEN. It’s designed to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model and it’s based on a new NLP algorithm developed by the company’s research team. iFlytek’s NLP model…