The Iranian threat actor known as OilRig has been observed exploiting a now-patched privilege escalation flaw impacting the Windows Kernel as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.A.E. and the broader Gulf region.
"The group utilizes sophisticated tactics that include deploying a backdoor that leverages Microsoft Exchange servers for [...]
Sun, Oct 13, 2024Source The Hacker News
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets as part of a widespread fraud operation.
The law enforcement action – codenamed Operation Token Mirrors – is the result of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation [...]
Sat, Oct 12, 2024Source The Hacker News
AMD’s big Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday underlined how quickly the microprocessor industry has pivoted to artificial intelligence (AI) as its main sales pitch.
The company offered three hardware announcements across its processor line-up, each appealing to different parts of the AI market.
The first was the new Instinct MI325X AI [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source Computer World
Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are. Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates and patches for its software products [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source Computer World
This month’s Patch Tuesday delivers a large set of patches from Microsoft that fix 117 flaws, including five zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-6197, CVE-2024-20659, CVE-2024-43572 and CVE-2024-43583).
Though there are patches affecting Windows, SQL Server, Microsoft Excel and Visual Studio, only the Windows updates require a “Patch Now” schedule — and they’ll need a significant amount of [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source Computer World
A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction among threat actors.
"In this campaign, legitimate repositories such as the open-source tax [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source The Hacker News
Apple didn’t cast much light on visionOS at WWDC this year, and it hasn’t received much attention since. But don’t mistake this something for nothing. Two recent events indicate there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.
The first is the release of Submerged, the first movie filmed in Immersive Video written and [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source Computer World
“Un paso decisivo e innovador hacia la digitalización y modernización de nuestras ciudades que contribuya a mejorar los servicios públicos que se prestan a la ciudadanía”. Así ha definido hoy Óscar López, ministro para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, en un acto en Jaén, el anuncio de [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source CIO
Threat actors constantly change tactics to bypass cybersecurity measures, developing innovative methods to steal user credentials. Hybrid password attacks merge multiple cracking techniques to amplify their effectiveness. These combined approaches exploit the strengths of various methods, accelerating the password-cracking process.
In this post, we’ll explore hybrid attacks — what they [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source The Hacker News
El mundo de TI está siendo testigo de una convergencia cada vez más cercana de la nube, el edge y la inteligencia artificial. La recopilación y el procesamiento de datos en el ‘borde’, a través de objetos conectados, es una parte integral de las aplicaciones para la industria 4.0, pero [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source CIO
Digital transformation definition
Digital transformation is an organization-wide strategy aimed at leveraging digital technologies to modernize key business processes and to introduce new services that better engage customers, support employees, improve operations, and drive business value to the bottom line.
When done correctly, digital transformation becomes embedded in the enterprise strategy, with [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source CIO
In recent years, there’ve been a number of smaller AI products geared toward the legal profession, but it wasn’t until gen AI caught on that Swedish law firm Setterwalls really saw the benefit. “We saw that there was potential to benefit on a broad front,” says CIO Daniel Sandberg.
With backing from [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024Source CIO
A deep-dive into how AI-driven solutions from Trend Micro leveraging the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform are elevating security across critical industries [...]
Tue, Oct 08, 2024Source Trend Micro
This is the fourth blog post in an ongoing series on Rogue AI. Keep following for more technical guidance, case studies, and insights. [...]
Thu, Oct 03, 2024Source Trend Micro
Fall is in the air and frameworks for mitigating AI risk are dropping like leaves onto policymakers’ desks. From California’s SB 1047 bill and NIST’s model-testing deal with OpenAI and Anthropic to REAIM’s blueprint for military AI governance, AI regulation is proving to be a hot and complicated topic. [...]
Mon, Sep 30, 2024Source Trend Micro