Collaborate Disseminate
A new mass malware campaign is infecting users with a cryptocurrency miner named SilentCryptoMiner by masquerading it as a tool designed to circumvent internet blocks and restrictions around online services.
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said… Continue reading SilentCryptoMiner Infects 2,000 Russian Users via Fake VPN and DPI Bypass Tools
Red Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub:
Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic W… Continue reading New Open Source Windows-Compatible Operating System Released
You’ve doubtless seen those ubiquitous clock modules, especially when setting clocks for daylight savings time. You know the ones: a single AA battery, a wheel to set the time, and …read more Continue reading Clock Mechanism Goes Crazy for Arduino
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Continue reading ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 10th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9356, (Mon, Mar 10th)
Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more Infosec in Brief Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and exposed nearly a million devic… Continue reading Microsoft admits GitHub hosted malware that infected almost a million devices
Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more Infosec in Brief Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and exposed nearly a million devic… Continue reading Microsoft admits GitHub hosted malware that infected almost a million devices
Adafruit Industries used large language model (LLM) tool Claude Code to streamline hardware development, writes managing director ptorrone.
In a demo video Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried compares the LLM’s command-line interface to working with the build-auto… Continue reading Adafruit Successfully Automates Arduino Development Using ‘Claude Code’ LLM
PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more Asia in Brief India’s government has proposed giving its tax authorities sweeping powers to access private email systems and applicat… Continue reading India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors
PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more Asia in Brief India’s government has proposed giving its tax authorities sweeping powers to access private email systems and applicat… Continue reading India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors
NPR reports on “a monster black hole that’s been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door.”
This appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside our Milky Way galaxy, according to a report that’s appearing in The Astrophysical Journal… “Now … Continue reading That Galaxy Next Door? It’s Home to a Monster Black Hole