Month: January 2024

Jan 26, 2024NewsroomMalvertising / Phishing-as-a-service Chinese-speaking users have been targeted by malicious Google ads for restricted messaging apps like Telegram as part of an ongoing malvertising campaign. “The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will download Remote Administration Trojan (RATs) instead,” Malwarebytes’
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Microsoft will let go of 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, it said on Thursday, the latest cuts in the technology sector that has extended massive layoffs over the past years into 2024. The cuts represent about 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division and will mostly happen at Activision Blizzard.
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Medieval castles stood as impregnable fortresses for centuries, thanks to their meticulous design. Fast forward to the digital age, and this medieval wisdom still echoes in cybersecurity. Like castles with strategic layouts to withstand attacks, the Defense-in-Depth strategy is the modern counterpart — a multi-layered approach with strategic redundancy and a blend of passive and
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Jan 26, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Microsoft on Thursday said the Russian state-sponsored threat actors responsible for a cyber attack on its systems in late November 2023 have been targeting other organizations and that it’s currently beginning to notify them. The development comes a day after Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) revealed that it had
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In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City.  Slaven Vlasic | Getty Images Elon Musk said Chinese electric automakers will find “significant” success outside of China, even as
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Jan 25, 2024NewsroomRemote Access Trojan Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the command-and-control (C2) server of a known malware family called SystemBC. “SystemBC can be purchased on underground marketplaces and is supplied in an archive containing the implant, a command-and-control (C2) server, and a web administration portal written in PHP,” Kroll said in an analysis
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Meta Platforms introduced steps to limit teens’ ability to see potentially sensitive content on Instagram and Facebook earlier this month. Now, the social media company has announced new restrictions to help protect teens from unwanted contact on Instagram and Facebook through stricter private message settings. Meta will enable fresh DM (direct messages) restrictions on both
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Palworld, the viral hit action-adventure survival title that has come under intense scrutiny over the alleged likeness of its in-game creatures to the cute monsters from Pokémon, could be staring at legal trouble. The Pokémon Company, which manages the iconic franchise, has finally released an official statement addressing the swirling plagiarism accusations against Palworld, albeit
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Jan 25, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security The maintainers of the open-source continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation software Jenkins have resolved nine security flaws, including a critical bug that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE). The issue, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-23897, has been described as an arbitrary file read
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In this article MSFT .BBKA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella listens to an audience member’s question during the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington, Nov. 30, 2016. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images News | Getty Images Microsoft will lay off around 1,900 employees in its Gaming unit, or around
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