Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker
110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location Ken Underhill / eSecurity Planet : Amazon Detects North Korean IT Infiltrator via Latency Clues Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : Keyboard Lag Leads Am...
Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, compromising 10M+ devices worldwide
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CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $963.9M, vs. $958.6M est., and cuts its FY 2025 revenue and profit forecasts, after July's Windows outage
but unsurprisingly, it's not going to last Jessica Lyons / The Register : CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance ... yet Jenn Brice / Fortune : CrowdStrike CEO celebrates ‘resilient’ ...
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : US government sanctions twelve Kaspersky Lab executives The Hacker News : U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kas...
Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for the issues the CSRB found, its business in China serves US interests, and more
if they haven't shown good cybersecurity performance Jessica Lyons / The Register : Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Sean Lyngaas / CNN : Microsoft ...
A hacker says they breached Tile internal tools, including one for processing data for cops, and stole customer data like phone numbers, addresses, and Tile IDs
police data provider says it faced “extortion” attempt following breach Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Life360 Says Personal Information Stolen From Tile Customer Support Platform Trevor Mogg / Digita...
Lumen details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; the ISP seems to be Windstream
Executive Summary — Lumen Technologies' Black Lotus Labs identified … Christopher Bing / Reuters : Hundreds of thousands of US internet routers destroyed in newly discovered 2023 hack Pierluigi Paga...
Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware
Twitter's natural heir is finally open to the public — and it has some big ideas for social networking Shane Huntley / The Keyword : Buying Spying: How the commercial surveillance industry works and w...