Collaborate Disseminate
Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea’s fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate comp… Continue reading North Korea’s 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un
No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK’s secure communications system Sky… Continue reading Britain’s satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus
Even without a navy, or air power, ‘They’ll still have the ability to hack’ Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.… Continue reading Iran’s cyberattack against med tech firm is ‘just the beginning’
Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.… Continue reading Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’ Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.… Continue reading Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st
Sell your soul to the orb Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human b… Continue reading WorldCoin‘s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you
State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.… Continue reading EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach
Midmarket security leaders aren’t as secure as they think, says Intruder’s report Partner Content The midmarket matters. JP Morgan estimates approximately 300,000 organizations generating $13T in annual revenue. Yet they occupy an awkward position in … Continue reading Too big to ignore, too small to be served: the midmarket security gap
SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the in… Continue reading Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn’t noticed yet
Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of we… Continue reading Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes