Collaborate Disseminate
A new malware campaign has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics to deliver an open-source rootkit called r77.
The activity, condemned OBSCURE#BAT by Securonix, enables threat actors to establish persistence and evade detection on comprom… Continue reading OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Last week, Aix Marseille University, France’s largest university, invited American scientists who believe their work is at risk of being censored by Donald Trump administration’s anti-science policies… Continue reading NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider ‘Scientific Exile’
In late 2023, the FBI alerted the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD) that it had been breached by a Chinese-state-sponsored hacking group for over 300 days. With the help of cybersecurity firm Dragos and Department of Energy-funded … Continue reading Chinese Hackers Sat Undetected in Small Massachusetts Power Utility for Months
Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs …read more Continue reading Tracking Deep-Sky Objects
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Yale University has suspended a law scholar and pro-Palestinian activist after an AI-generated article from Jewish Onliner falsely linked her to a terrorist group. Gizmodo reports: Helyeh Doutaghi, the scholar at Yale Law School, told the New York Time… Continue reading Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her To Terrorism
Tenable Research reveals that AI chatbot DeepSeek R1 can be manipulated to generate keyloggers and ransomware code. While… Continue reading AI Chatbot DeepSeek R1 Can Be Manipulated to Create Malware
On March 9, older Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices stopped working due to an expired device authentication certificate authority that made them untrusted by Google’s apps. While unofficial apps like VLC continue to function, Google’s fix will re… Continue reading As Chromecast Outage Drags On, Fix Could Be Days To Weeks Away
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Meta plans to test out X’s algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In a blog, Meta said the testing in the U.S. would begi… Continue reading Meta Plans To Test and Tinker With X’s Community Notes Algorithm
Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a ‘severe’ cybersecurity fail House Democrats have sent letters to 24 federal agencies asking for assurances that Elon Musk’s DOGE team is not feeding sensitive government da… Continue reading Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn’t feeding data into AI willy-nilly