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Hackers from North Korea suspected of being behind a new wave of malicious npm packages Another targeted attack against the npm package registry has been discovered. This time, the attacker focuses on convincing developers to download malicious JavaScript files instead of the legitimate ones they’ve uploaded to npm. The attack chain commences with the discovery…

Over 12,000 Computers Reportedly Compromised by Info Stealers Linked More than 120,000 infected computers have credentials associated with cybercrime forums, many of them belonging to malicious actors. According to a new study, strong passwords are more common on these sites than weak ones. The findings come from Hudson Rock, which analyzed data collected from computers…

Catching the Catphish: How to Combat Credential Phishing Even with comprehensive security awareness training, employees still fall victim to credential phishing scams. How do you protect your employees against this fraud? Here are some tips: Catching the Catphish: Graham Cluley on the Impact of Credential Phishing Are your employees putting your business at risk? Take…

Chatbots vs. Humans: Showdown to Keep AI Safe Meyers spends nearly an hour trying to beat up the AI system, and by the end of the hour, he’s exhausted. The practice is gaining support from lawmakers anxious to regulate generative AI.Last month, executives from major AI companies, including most participants in the challenge, met with…

The Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg rivalry has reached a new level of absurdity Now that the proposed cage match between Musk and Zuckerberg has been postponed, Musk says he will show up unannounced at the latter’s house to fight. A spokesperson for Zuckerberg tells The Verge that the former is traveling and isn’t in…

AI companies must prove their AI is safe, say nonprofit group Congress has held several hearings trying to figure out what to do about the rise of generative AI. Big AI companies like OpenAI have been open to working with the US government to craft regulations and even signed a nonbinding, unenforceable agreement with the…

QwixxRAT: Telegram and Discord Used to Spread New Remote Access Trojan A new remote access trojan called QwixxRAT is being advertised for sale on the darknet. It’s easy to install and it collects sensitive data, which is then sent to the attacker’s Telegram bot. Uptycs warns customers that it can be harmful. Prices are set…

Amazon Adds Summaries of AI-Generated Reviews So You Don’t Have to The company is now rolling out AI-generated review summaries, which boil down hundreds or thousands of Amazon reviews into a one-paragraph blurb explaining what most people like or dislike about a product. The summaries only pull from verified purchases in an effort to cut…

Magento 2 Vulnerability Being Exploited in Ongoing Xurum Attacks on The Xurum by Akamai team details an ongoing campaign against e-commerce sites using Adobe’s Magento software. The company has been active since January 2023 and leverages a critical security flaw called CVE-2022-24086. It also includes an evolution of the web shell called the WSO web…

Microsoft Office to get a new default theme and font in September The default Office theme changes. Aptos, the new default font for apps like Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel, will replace Calibri next month after more than 15 years. Microsoft is currently testing a new Office default theme that will roll out to all…