Discord tokens are being targeted by malicious npm packages
Packages were removed before being extensively downloaded to target Discord users......»»
Place-based investment will support left-behind towns, but only a targeted approach can truly resolve people"s struggles
A leading strategy expert at Bayes Business School says failing to target individual local improvement plans will result in the deepening struggles of left-behind towns in the U.K......»»
macOS targeted by evasive crypto-jacking malware
An investigation has discovered a new evasive crypto-jacking malware on macOS distributed through pirated versions of Final Cut Pro.New malware targets macOSJamf Threat Labs has spent the past few months tracking a family of malware that recently res.....»»
Meat shaming tags shown to reduce likelihood of buying meat
A pair of applied scientists, one with Brand University of Applied Sciences in Germany, the other wtih Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has found via experimentation that placing shaming tags on packages of meat reduces the likeliho.....»»
Resecurity warns about cyber-attacks on data center service providers
Resecurity warns about the increase of malicious cyber activity targeting data center service providers globally. According to the detailed report recently released by the California-based cybersecurity company, during September 2021, Resecurity noti.....»»
What can we learn from the latest Coinbase cyberattack?
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has fended off a cyberattack that might have been mounted by the same attackers that targeted Twillio, Cloudflare and many other companies last year. Leveraging smishing and vishing, the attackers tried to trick Coinb.....»»
Researchers unearth Windows backdoor that’s unusually stealthy
Frebniis abuses Microsoft IIS to smuggle malicious commands in Web traffic. Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) Researchers have discovered a clever piece of malware that stealthily exfiltrates data.....»»
Ford technology deal with China"s CATL targeted for U.S. review by GOP senator
Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for an immediate Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. review of the licensing agreement between Ford and China's CATL......»»
Survivors of Utah"s eugenic sterilization program still alive in 2023
At least 830 men, women and children were coercively sterilized in Utah, approximately 54 of whom may still be alive. They were victims of a sterilization program that lasted for fifty years in the state and targeted people confined to state institut.....»»
Latest attack on PyPI users shows crooks are only getting better
The code found in the malicious packages closely resembled legit offerings. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 400 malicious packages were recently uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index), the official code reposit.....»»
Thousands of WordPress sites have been infected by a mystery malware
Malware redirects WordPress traffic to a different site housing malicious Google ads......»»
Malware that can do anything and everything is on the rise
“Swiss Army knife” malware – multi-purpose malware that can perform malicious actions across the cyber-kill chain and evade detection by security controls – is on the rise, according to the results of Picus Security’s analysis o.....»»
Potential Intel competitor HF Core Storage put on US sanction list
In December 2022, the US revealed its latest sanction list on Chinese semiconductor companies. Analysis pointed out that the corporations targeted by the US are mostly rising stars in China's semiconductor sector. Besides Yangtze Memory (YMTC), anoth.....»»
Week in review: VMware ESXi servers under attack, ChatGPT’s malicious potential, Reddit breached
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: While governments pass privacy laws, companies struggle to change In this Help Net Security interview, Bill Tolson, VP of Compliance and eDiscovery.....»»
Musk rival to air Super Bowl ad calling for ban on Tesla "self-driving" feature
Self-described tech billionaire Dan O'Dowd takes his campaign against Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' software to the airwaves during targeted ads on Super Bowl Sunday. The FSD feature does not make Teslas autonomous......»»
Great, hackers are now using ChatGPT to create malware
Hackers have designed bots that can infiltrate OpenAI's GPT-3 API and alter its code so that it can generate malicious content......»»
Battery makers in US, Europe seeking backup supplies against possible China export ban
Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery supply chain players outside China are moving to seek backup supply packages as they are worried that China's upcoming restrictions on tech exports for solar wafers might be extended to LFP batteries, according to.....»»
Cybercriminals exploit volatile job market for targeted email attacks
Between July–December 2022, the median open rate for text-based business email compromise (BEC) attacks was nearly 28%, according to Abnormal Security. Business email and supply chain compromise as attack strategies Additionally, of the malicious e.....»»
Toyota supplier portal breached by white hat hacker
The hacker gained read-and-write access to 14,000 corporate Toyota email accounts and related confidential documents. Toyota said there was no malicious access. It closed the breach and thanked the white hat hacker......»»
Pegasus spyware journalists had to take extreme measures to avoid becoming victims
Pegasus spyware journalists Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud were the first to discover an extensive list of specific people being targeted by NSO’s clients. In working on the story, they said they had to take extreme privacy precautions to avo.....»»
How to enable package tracking in Gmail
One of the newer features Google introduced to Gmail is the ability to track packages, so here’s how you can do it. The post How to enable package tracking in Gmail first appeared on Phandroid. If you order a lot of things online, they ar.....»»