The threat actors behind the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are now offering legal counsel for affiliates to put more pressure on victims to pay up, as the cybercrime group intensifies its activity and tries to fill the void left by its rivals.
The new feature takes the form of a "Call [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source The Hacker News
Contactless payments such as Apple Pay and sustainability in inventory control are going to get much easier with an upcoming update to the Near Field Communications (NFC) standard that will make devices connect more swiftly and support the Digital Product Passport (NDPP) specification.
The first problems the new standard solves are range and reliability. [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source Computer World
Iran's state-owned TV broadcaster was hacked Wednesday night to interrupt regular programming and air videos calling for street protests against the Iranian government, according to multiple reports.
It's currently not known who is behind the attack, although Iran pointed fingers at Israel, per Iran International.
"If you experience disruptions or irrelevant messages [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source The Hacker News
Since early 2010, digital transformation has become a buzzword synonymous with adopting cloud, mobile or analytics technologies without considering how people and processes collaborate, operate and evolve. As a result, IT solutions tended to be technology-centric, sometimes addressing business problems by adapting them to what technology offers.
Artificial intelligence (AI), however, [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source CIO
¿Es el CIO un mero ejecutor de decisiones que toman otros directivos de negocio o tiene verdadera influencia en el rumbo de la organización para la que trabaja? ¿Y están preparados estos perfiles para navegar en un nuevo contexto marcado por el auge de la inteligencia artificial y, en concreto, [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source CIO
We live in a multicloud age. According to a recent survey of IT leaders from HostingAdvice.com, 89% of respondents say organizations should never rely on a single cloud provider in their shops. Rather they turn to hyperscale providers like Azure AWS and Google as well as smaller providers for cloud [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source CIO
AI’s popularity is rapidly growing not only in the tech industry but every other one as well, as organizations quickly move to adopt the technology to streamline business processes.
A recent survey of senior IT professionals from Foundry found that AI spending is predicted to remain steady through the rest of 2025, with [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source CIO
Hackers never sleep, so why should enterprise defenses? Threat actors prefer to target businesses during off-hours. That’s when they can count on fewer security personnel monitoring systems, delaying response and remediation.
When retail giant Marks & Spencer experienced a security event over Easter weekend, they were forced to shut down their [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source The Hacker News
In a move that could redefine the boundaries between generative AI (genAI) and intellectual property, Disney and Universal have joined forces to file a lawsuit against Midjourney, one of the world’s most popular AI image generators.
You may think you’ve heard this story before — The New York Times‘ 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source Computer World
Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider.
"Hosting providers and critical Internet infrastructure have increasingly become targets of DDoS attacks," Cloudflare's [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source The Hacker News
Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features.
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Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source Computer World
Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) has announced the preview of a new service, Windows 365 Reserve, which aims to provide enterprises with backups for PCs that are lost, stolen, or simply fail.
It offers a temporary pre-configured Cloud PC, accessible through a browser, that, Microsoft said, “looks and feels like a physical PC, and [...]
Fri, Jun 20, 2025Source Computer World
Overprivileged or misconfigured containers in Amazon EKS can expose sensitive AWS credentials to threats like packet sniffing and API spoofing, highlighting the need for least privilege and proactive security to detect and reduce these risks. [...]
Thu, Jun 19, 2025Source Trend Micro
A recent attack campaign took advantage of exposed Docker Remote APIs and used the Tor network to deploy a stealthy cryptocurrency miner. This blog breaks down the attack chain. [...]
Wed, Jun 18, 2025Source Trend Micro
The Trend Micro™ Managed Detection and Response team uncovered a threat campaign orchestrated by an active group, Water Curse. The threat actor exploits GitHub, one of the most trusted platforms for open-source software, as a delivery channel for weaponized repositories. [...]
Mon, Jun 16, 2025Source Trend Micro