Menu

Blog

Latest posts

Oct 5, 2024

Do AI companies work?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Do #AI companies work?

“The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.”

Oct 5, 2024

INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

INTERPOL arrests 8 cybercriminals in West Africa linked to phishing scams and romance fraud, defrauding victims globally.

Oct 5, 2024

LockBit Ransomware and Evil Corp Members Arrested and Sanctioned in Joint Global Effort

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Europol and allies dismantle LockBit ransomware’s infrastructure, arresting key figures and sending a strong message to cybercriminals.

Oct 5, 2024

New Perfctl Malware Targets Linux Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining and Proxyjacking

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode, internet

“When a new user logs into the server, it immediately stops all ‘noisy’ activities, lying dormant until the server is idle again. After execution, it deletes its binary and continues to run quietly in the background as a service.”

It’s worth noting that some aspects of the campaign were disclosed last month by Cado Security, which detailed an activity cluster that targets internet-exposed Selenium Grid instances with both cryptocurrency mining and proxyjacking software.

Specifically, the fileless perfctl malware has been found to exploit a security flaw in Polkit (CVE-2021–4043, aka PwnKit) to escalate privileges to root and drop a miner called perfcc.

Oct 5, 2024

Apple Releases Critical iOS and iPadOS Updates to Fix VoiceOver Password Vulnerability

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Apple’s iOS 18.0.1 fixes a VoiceOver password vulnerability and an audio bug in iPhone 16. Update now!

Oct 5, 2024

Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Global Sectors

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Cloudflare mitigates a record-breaking 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack, marking a surge in global cyber threats.

Oct 5, 2024

WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Security Flaw Exposes Sites to XSS Attacks

Posted by in category: security

LiteSpeed Cache plugin vulnerability (CVE-2024–47374) exposes WordPress sites to XSS attacks. Update to version 6.5.1 now.

Oct 5, 2024

Google Adds New Pixel Security Features to Block 2G Exploits and Baseband Attacks

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, security

Google enhances Pixel security in Android 14 to block baseband attacks, 2G downgrades, and SMS Blaster fraud.

Oct 4, 2024

MIT engineers create a chip-based tractor beam for biological particles

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, tractor beam

MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help biologists and clinicians study DNA, classify cells, and investigate the mechanisms of disease.

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the device uses a beam of light emitted by a silicon-photonics chip to manipulate particles millimeters away from the chip surface. The light can penetrate the glass cover slips that protect samples used in biological experiments, enabling cells to remain in a sterile environment.

Traditional optical tweezers, which trap and manipulate particles using light, usually require bulky microscope setups, but chip-based optical tweezers could offer a more compact, mass manufacturable, broadly accessible, and high-throughput solution for optical manipulation in biological experiments.

Oct 4, 2024

AI assistants are blabbing our embarrassing work secrets

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Workplace AI tools can do tasks by themselves. Getting them to stop is the problem.

Page 1 of 11,79512345678Last