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Elon Musk’s Twitter Space Fiasco Costs Ron DeSantis the Election The DeSantis campaign formally files for the 2024 presidential race Wednesday afternoon, teeing up an increasingly crowded GOP primary election currently led by former President Donald Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantam announced his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday in a Twitter Space with Elon Musk.…

Delta is the third installment in the Metal Gear Solid series, not the third installment in A new Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is coming out, and it has a weird logo. Konami describes it as Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater. Until now, we’ve assumed that the symbol on the game’s front was a triangle,…

An Android app that was listed on Google Play almost a year ago started secretly recording users An Android recording app called iRecorder Screen Recorder turned evil nearly a year after its release. The whole thing is documented in a blog post from Essential Security against Evolving Threats (ESET) researcher Lukas Stefanko. In the post,…

Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers Hundreds of students and admirers of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT have gathered to watch Sam Altman speak at the opening of his UK leg of his world tour. Altman seems unconcerned about the protests outside, but he does admit to concerns over how generative AI could be…

A Google AI language model is now making descriptions for YouTube Shorts This week, DeepMind officially combined its artificial intelligence team into one big AI team, and on Wednesday, the new Google DeepMind shared details on how one of its visual language models, Flamingo, is being used to generate descriptions for YouTube shorts. Shorts are…

Israeli Logistics Industry Targeted by Iranian Tortoiseshell Hackers At least eight websites, including those of shipping companies, were targeted by an Iranian threat actor known as Tortoiseshell. The company believes the malware to be originating from an Indian watering hole. This is not the first time Iranian activity clusters have set their sights on the…

Cyber Attacks Hit Ukraine’s State Bodies in Espionage Operation The findings show that some threat actors are still employing macro-based malware despite Microsoft disabling the feature by default in Office files downloaded from the web. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of cyber attacks targeting state institutions in the country as…

N. Korean Lazarus Group Targets Microsoft IIS Servers to Deploy Ransomware The Lazarus Group actor has been targeting vulnerable versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers as an initial breach route to deploy malware on targeted systems. The malicious DLL is placed in the same folder path as a normal application and is then…

Legion Malware Upgraded to Steal SSH Servers and AWS Credentials An updated version of the ransomware called Legion comes with expanded features including the ability to compromise SSH servers and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. It also can exploit SSH servers using the Paramiko module. Muir warns that misconfigurations in web applications are still the…

Android Screen Recorder App Found to Steal Data Google has removed an app called iRecorder – Screen Recorder from the Play Store because it has information stealing capabilities nearly a year after its release. ESET security researcher Lukáš Štefanko discovered the flaw in the app and reported it to the company. iRecorder is the work…