Cybersecurity
đź’€This malware campaign uses Discord emojis for C2 instructions
Camera emoji? "Take a screenshot of the victim's screen and upload it to the command channel as an attachment."
Snowflake
Mandiant confirms 165 Snowflake breach victims – sees custom .NET and Java reconnaissance tool
“At least 79.7% of the accounts leveraged by the threat actor in this campaign had prior credential exposure
natwest
Natwest launches new RAG chatbot pilot
Cloud-based ChatGPT 3.5 turbo as the underlying model, with NeuralSeek-powered RAG in support.
Veeam
Amid ransomware epidemic, backup and security pros need to get closer
"You have to get contained or they’ll discover and wipe your backups"
Snowflake
Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches
"The user must be left in the disabled state for 6 hours to fully invalidate any possible unauthorized access via this ID token feature."
vulnerabilities
Check Point vulnerability far worse than thought – exploited in wild since April
106,000 customers publicly exposed, initial searches suggest.
cybersecurity
New North Korean threat group seen deploying custom ransomware
Multiple Fortune 500 firms breached. Threat group uses remote IT staff, social engineering, trojanised npm packages, even a poisoned "tank game"
google cloud
Google praises UniSuper’s CIO after GCP error deleted $124 billion firm’s entire private cloud
Post-mortem praises Aussie fund's good third-party backups, “speed and precision” from CIO’s teamÂ
NVIDIA
Jensen Huang: There’s 20,000 AI startups wanting our kit
NVIDIA shrugs off analyst concerns about depreciating assets amid pace of platform evolution.
Microsoft
Microsoft’s new AI PCs will screenshot everything every 2 seconds
Redmond's new Arm-based line of computers feature essentially built-in keylogger for hackers and abusers: Lovely.
Cybersecurity
Single host saw 70,000 servers hit with Ebury backdoor
Malware operators “have established a significant presence in data centers worldwide”Â
slack
Slack is scraping your messages and files to develop AI by default
"To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack..."