A cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah, including its website
The attack introduces a clear cyber element with immediate consequences for the country's critical infrastructure amid a growing conflict between Israel and Iran.
Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real.
Report: North Korea is launching Research Center 227, a cybersecurity research unit focused on AI-based hacking for stealing information and digital assets
The North Korean government is reportedly establishing a new hacking group within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB). Bluesky: @myromanempire and @mnadeau ...
ESET researchers find the first UEFI bootkit designed specifically to target Linux systems, marking a shift in bootkits that previously focused on Windows
Article then proceeds to describe a toy GRUB wrapper bootkit that has nothing to do with UEFI firmware (other than running on UEFI systems like any other UEFI bootloader), does not...
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses
Key contributions — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS … X: @citizenlab , @thegrugq , @jsrailton , and @citizenlab X: @citizenl...
Microsoft plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike, Broadcom, Sophos, Trend Micro, and other security vendors operate outside of the kernel
Microsoft is announcing plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel.
Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines
On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident …
A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market
The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS — Get notified of outages that impact you — Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs that have at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board
The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud. — We've been hearing rumblings for months …
A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros Debian, Red Hat, and others
Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library …
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections
Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident. But what a fortunate accident it was.
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections
Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident. But what a fortunate accident it was.
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections
Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident. But what a fortunate accident it was.
Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. — Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …
Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets
Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …
Law enforcement agencies from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit group and seize 11K domains used for ransomware
- Law enforcement from 11 countries joined in cyber operation — Extortion sites used by scammers seized to thwart attacks
The French government bans TikTok and all other recreational apps from staff phones, claiming none have sufficiently robust security for government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action — The government of France has banned TikTok - and all other recreational apps - from phones issued to its employees.
Microsoft plans to sunset its Microsoft Office branding after more than 30 years, rebranding the apps to Microsoft 365; new logos will roll out in January 2023
Microsoft is making a major change to its Microsoft Office branding. After more than 30 years, Microsoft Office is being renamed …