Month: April 2023

Apr 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananKubernetes / Cryptocurrency A large-scale attack campaign discovered in the wild has been exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to create backdoors and run cryptocurrency miners. “The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack,” cloud security firm Aqua said in a report
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WhatsApp has announced a new feature that affects how disappearing messages work on the messaging service. Users can now “keep” disappearing messages in chats, but senders will have the ability to decide which messages are kept. The messaging platform has announced a new ‘Keep in Chat’ feature that users retail a chat to access at
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Immortals of Aveum, EA’s upcoming magic shooter, just got a gameplay trailer and it feels overwhelming. Developer Ascendant Studios dropped six minutes of raw, HUD-less footage, showcasing its fluid spell-based combat and visuals built on Unreal Engine 5.1, which without context, one could easily mistake for a first-person Forspoken. But its similarities don’t just end
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Karnataka High Court has rejected China-based Xiaomi’s petition challenging the seizure of $676.35 million (roughly Rs. 5,500 crore) by the Enforcement Directorate, news website Live Law reported on Friday. India’s federal financial crime agency froze Xiaomi’s assets last year, alleging the company had made illegal remittances to foreign entities by passing them off as royalty
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Apr 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched zero-day flaw in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that could have enabled threat actors to conceal an unremovable, malicious application inside a victim’s Google account. Dubbed GhostToken by Israeli cybersecurity startup Astrix Security, the shortcoming impacts all Google accounts, including enterprise-focused
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Under Elon Musk’s orders, Twitter has begun pulling away the legacy blue tick marks that once verified public figures, celebrities, and politicians to authenticate their profiles. As several global celebrities woke up to a badge-less Twitter, the ‘Shehenshah’ of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan posted a hilarious request to Twitter. Within minutes of the senior actor posting
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Apr 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Update / Network Security Cisco and VMware have released security updates to address critical security flaws in their products that could be exploited by malicious actors to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. The most severe of the vulnerabilities is a command injection flaw in Cisco Industrial Network Director (CVE-2023-20036, CVSS
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