A New Age of Hacktivism
In the past 2 years, we have observed a significant surge in hacktivism activity due to ongoing wars and geopolitical conflicts in various regions. Since the war against Ukraine began, we have witnessed a notable…
Russian Government Software Backdoored to Deploy Konni RAT Malware
?Feb 22, 2024?NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage An installer for a tool likely used by the Russian Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) has been backdoored to deliver a remote access trojan called…
Macs can’t use as many displays as they have USB-C ports
Apple went all in on USB-C, starting with the introduction of the now-discontinued 12-inch MacBook in 2015. For a while, you could buy a Mac with one, two, or four USB-C ports, all of which…
U.S. Offers $15 Million Bounty to Hunt Down LockBit Ransomware Leaders
The U.S. State Department has announced monetary rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification of key leaders within the LockBit ransomware group and the arrest of any individual…
iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal
iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal or arguably incrementally more hardened. On…
US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack
U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. In a brief statement, the company said it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” “Once we became…
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family
On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma, which are free, open-weights models built on technology similar to the more powerful but closed Gemini models. Unlike Gemini, Gemma models can…
Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted using Discord applications. But Discord has yet to remove the server where…
Researchers warn high-risk ConnectWise flaw under attack is ’embarrassingly easy’ to exploit
“I can’t sugarcoat it — this shit is bad,” said Huntress’ CEO Security experts are warning that a high-risk vulnerability in a widely used remote access tool is “trivial and embarrassingly easy” to exploit, as…
ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users
On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI’s AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub with reports of the AI assistant “having a stroke,” “going insane,” “rambling,” and “losing it.” OpenAI has acknowledged…