Month: August 2024

Aug 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananElection Security / Threat Intelligence Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who it said used a set of WhatsApp accounts that attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the U.K., and the U.S. The
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The next Tomb Raider game is currently under development at Crystal Dynamics. While there’s no update on when the action-adventure title might launch, Amazon Games chief has said that work on the game is progressing, despite the turmoil at Embracer Group, that owns Crystal Dynamics. Amazon Games is set to publish the next Tomb Raider
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Infinix XE27 was launched in India on Thursday as the company’s latest truly wireless stereo (TWS) headset. It is equipped with 10mm drivers and offers support for active noise cancellation (ANC) up to 25dB, according to the company. The Infinix XE27 earphones are claimed to offer up to 28 hours of battery life, including the charging
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Aug 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Government Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a security flaw impacting Versa Director to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. The medium-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39717 (CVSS score: 6.6), is case of file upload bug impacting the “Change Favicon”
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Getty Images Meta said Friday that it blocked a “small cluster” of WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian hacking group that was targeting officials associated with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The company said in a blog post that the bogus WhatsApp accounts appeared to originate from the Iranian threat actor dubbed
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Aug 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen dropper that serves as a conduit to launch next-stage malware with the ultimate goal of infecting Windows systems with information stealers and loaders. “This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based downloader,” Google-owned Mandiant said. “This PowerShell-based downloader is being tracked as
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