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How Wazuh Enhances IT Hygiene for Cyber Security Resilience Wazuh improves an organization’s IT hygiene using several capabilities to alert administrators of vulnerabilities, suggest remediation steps, and respond to threats. The Wazuh Vulnerability Detector capability lets you discover security vulnerabilities in the operating system and applications installed on monitored endpoints. By leveraging the capabilities of…

PyPI malicious packages using compiled Python code to evade detection Researchers have discovered a new attack on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that uses compiled Python code to sidestep detection by application security tools. The vulnerability relates to the fshec2 package and its three files -init, main, and full.pyc. PYC files are compiled bytecode…

Unmasking the XE Group: Experts Reveal Identity of Suspected Cybercrime Researchers unmask the identity of one of the individuals who is believed to be associated with the e-crime actor XE Group. This group, also known as XeThanh, previously documented by Malwarebytes and Volexity, has a history of carrying out cyber criminal activities since at least…

Meta confirms that Quest 3 won’t replace Quest 2 for quite a while As another data point, the latest Steam Hardware Survey shows over 45 percent of VR headset users there are connecting a Quest 2 to their gaming PC, compared to just over 2 percent using the original Quest. Won’t Meta stop supporting the…

iOS Zero-Click Hack with Stealthy Root-Privilege Malware Kaspersky antivirus company discovers that an unknown APT is using iOS devices as part of a sophisticated and long-running mobile campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation. The malware infects the devices with zero-click exploits via the iMessage platform, and the malware runs with root privileges, gaining complete control over the…

Evasive QBot Malware Uses Short-lived Residential IP Addresses for Dynamic Attacks An analysis of the evasive and tenacious malware known as QBot has revealed that 25% of its command-and-control servers are only active for a day and 50% of them don’t remain active for more than a week. The malware arrives on victims’ devices via…

AiScout: The Soccer Scouting Platform AiSCOUT gives a second chance to young English soccer players by giving them a second chance at the top of the English soccer pyramid. Players perform athletic drills on the app, then are rated via an AI scoring system built by data specialists and scouts from the game. In a…

AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity – Yet Lauren Goode: That came from the Center for AI Safety, which is a nonprofit. It was signed by leading figures in the development of AI. There’s definitely been this moment where some people, who weren’t remotely worried about existential risk at all, have had this realization. That’s one…

Minecraft GPT-4 AI Potential The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. The language model generates objectives that help the agent explore the game, and code that improves the bot’s skill at the game over time. The most novel part of the project is the code that GPT-4…

The biggest announcements from Meta’s Quest Gaming Showcase Meta has just wrapped its latest Quest Gaming Showcase, which consisted of a bunch of virtual reality games coming to its Quest headsets. Among them are: Stranger Things VR, which will let you play as Vecna the evil character from Stranger Things season 4;Powerwash Simulator, a game…