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Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to its Authenticator app Google Authenticator recently updated its two-factor authentication feature to enable users to sync codes with their Google accounts, making it easier to sign into new devices. However, security researchers have raised concerns over the lack of end-to-end encryption, which could leave users vulnerable to data…

Microsoft is discontinuing its mice, keyboards, and webcams in favor of Surface Microsoft is discontinuing its Microsoft-branded PC hardware and accessories such as mice, keyboards, and webcams and will instead focus on its Surface-branded PC accessories, including mice, keyboards, pens, and more. Microsoft’s webcams have already been discontinued and its low-cost Microsoft-branded accessories may be…

Microsoft Windows 10 updates are done Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 22H2 will be the final version of the operating system and that all editions of Windows 10 will be supported with monthly security updates until October 14th, 2025. After this date, some releases on the Long-Term Servicing Channel, or LTSC, will still receive…

New Paperbug Attack Targets Tajikistan Politicians Nomadic Octopus, a Russian-speaking cyber-espionage group, has been linked to a politically-motivated surveillance campaign targeting government officials, telecom services, and public infrastructure in Tajikistan. The group has been active since 2014, using custom Android and Windows malware to conduct cyber surveillance operations. Analysis of the command-and-control server reveals that…

LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Configuration File ANY.RUN’s Q1 2023 report reveals that Remote Access Trojans (RATs) have taken the third leading position in malware prevalence. LimeRAT is a versatile RAT family that excels at data exfiltration, creating DDoS botnets, and facilitating crypto mining, and shares similarities with njRAT, the third most popular malware family.…

How to Improve Human-AI Interactions: Exploring Prompt-based Interfaces for Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have introduced SEEM, a new approach to interactive image segmentation that uses a universal interface and multi-modal prompts. SEEM is the first model to support multiple prompts such as points, masks, text, boxes, and even a referred region of another…

RTM Locker’s Ransomware Variant Targets NAS and ESXi Hosts RTM Locker is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider that has recently developed a strain of ransomware capable of targeting Linux machines. It uses a combination of ECDH on Curve25519 and Chacha20 to encrypt files, and is designed to target ESXi hosts by terminating all virtual machines on…

Tesla Lawyers Claim Elon Musk’s Past Statements about Self-Driving Safety Could Tesla lawyers have argued that statements made by Elon Musk about the capabilities of the company’s Autopilot software could be deepfakes, and that this should exempt Musk from being interviewed under oath for a lawsuit claiming Tesla is at fault for the death of…

Microsoft confirms that its PaperCut servers were used to deliver LockBit and Cl0p Microsoft has confirmed that PaperCut servers are being actively exploited by Lace Tempest, a financially motivated actor, in order to deliver Cl0p and LockBit ransomware families. They are using PowerShell commands to steal LSASS credentials and inject TrueBot payloads into conhost.exe. Cobalt…

Zuckerberg: Meta Wants to ‘Introduce AI Agents to Billions of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced to investors that the company is looking to introduce AI agents to its apps in order to create useful and meaningful experiences for its 2 billion daily users. This AI technology will be used for chat experiences in WhatsApp…