The malware includes four separate backdoors:
Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and removed. A unique case we haven’t seen...
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Squid is a loyalty card platform in Ireland. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreThe EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20...
Read moreInteresting article—with photos!—of the US/UK “Combined Cipher Machine” from WWII.
Read moreOf the five, one is a Windows vulnerability, another is a Cisco vulnerability. We don’t have any details about who is exploiting them, or how. News article. Slashdot thread.
Read moreThis is a sad story of someone who downloaded a Trojaned AI tool that resulted in hackers taking over his computer and, ultimately, costing him his job.
Read moreFirefly squid is now a delicacy in New York. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreInteresting research: “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs“:
Abstract: We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and alignment. In our experiment, a model is finetuned to...
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Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. On Friday, Apple took steps to comply for users in the United...
Read moreIt looks like a very sophisticated attack against the Dubai-based exchange Bybit:
Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins just hours...
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