Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some
Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'
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BTMOB RAT Spreads Across Brazil, LatAm via MaaS Model
An advanced remote access Trojan is propagating online. Notably, it's delivered via an operator licensing model and features a no-code malware-development interface.
EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech
Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack
SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure
JINX-0164 Targets Cryptocurrency Firms with Fake Recruiter Lures and macOS Malware
A new campaign orchestrated by a previously undocumented threat actor has targeted cryptocurrency organizations with an aim to facilitate digital asset theft using recruitment-them…
Nordic CISOs Handle Rising Cyber Threats Remarkably Well
Artificial intelligence notwithstanding, the vast majority of CISOs in northern Europe say they're facing no more serious cyberattacks than they did two years ago.
Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it
Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach’s kids uploaded video to YouTube
Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner
To succeed, look to China
Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO
Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land
Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in 'headless' embrace
Anthropic's use of Sales Cloud increased five-fold as its workers access Salesforce through Claude and Slack
GPU mining malware spreads via SEO poisoning, AI chatbots
Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated …
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators
Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.
FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship after another launch mishap
IPO? More like IP-uh-oh
Ransomware Actors Show Up In Person to Steal Law Firm Data
The FBI warned that the extortion gang Silent Ransom Group is targeting law firms and social-engineering its way into servers and databases.
Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token
Script kiddies these days
ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC
Africa’s regional internet registry and its longtime antagonist are fighting on old and new fronts
D2DO303: Commiserating About AI with Ned and Kyler
Hosts Ned and Kyler compare notes on everything they’ve been doing with AI, including the successes they’ve enjoyed and headaches they’ve suffered building and implementing AI agen…
AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates
Stanford researchers argue need for transparency and independent testing
CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet
Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days
UK Cyberspying Chief Calls AI ‘an Unstoppable Force’ and Warns About Russia
The speech is the latest in a string of warnings from intelligence experts that Russia is stepping up hostile activity in a “gray zone” that falls just below the threshold of war. …
Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers
More than half of orgs in Okta survey faced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year
AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims
LLMs prefer secular, rational reasoning, and while they'll still get religious on occasion, they have a negative view of Jehovah's Witnesses
Zero trust isn’t broken, but most companies are doing it wrong
Zero trust is 15 years old, and like many teenagers, it can feel misunderstood and underappreciated. The concept of zero trust was first defined by John Kindervag, a Forrester a…
Latin American Cybercriminals Hoover Up Government Data
A purported leak exposing 5.8 million records of Uruguayan citizens is the latest incident where cybercriminals targeted government agencies to monetize citizen data.
Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns
Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives
AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection
Attackers are using AI to dramatically reduce the time they need to develop a working exploit for a CVE, according to new research.
Grandoreiro Malware and BTMOB RAT Campaigns Target Windows and Android Users
Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively.…
As AI datacenter memory becomes hot commodity, SK Hynix makes it cooler
South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix has announced a new type of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI datacenters that improves heat dissipation by integrating a cooling layer w…
Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, nam…