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June 15, 2023Ravi LakshmananMobile Security/Privacy Updated version of the Android Remote Access Trojan Gravity RAT Since June 2022, it has been found masquerading as messaging apps BingeChat and Chatico as part of a targeted campaign. “What is noteworthy about the…

In the ongoing legal battle between Intel and VLSI in which billions of dollars were at stake, Intel appears to be winning. The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) recently invalidated two patents owned by VLSI worth a total…

Nearly half (47%) of UK business leaders believe their organizations are at risk of attack since the cost of living crisis began. Inflation, soaring interest rates and rising utility bills are eroding household disposable income, even as wages are rising…

Infoblox, a domain name system (DNS) security provider, has discovered an increase in cyberattacks using malicious lookalike domains, email addresses, and other types of registered identifiers. In a recent report, Detailed analysis of similar attacks, The Infoblox Threat Intelligence Group…

June 15, 2023Ravi Lakshmanan Microsoft on Wednesday opened the lid on a “novel and distinct Russian threat actor,” which it said had ties to the General Staff Intelligence Unit (GRU) and said it had a “relatively low success rate.” The…

The attackers behind the LockBit ransomware as a service (RaaS) scheme have extorted $91 million in hundreds of attacks against numerous US organizations since 2020. This is according to a joint bulletin issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…

System administrators breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when Microsoft issued a relatively light round of patch updates, no zero-day vulnerabilities, and only six critical CVEs on the list. However, there was still some work to be done. Among his…

According to Proofpoint, threat actors will continue to evolve their tactics to bypass user defenses in 2022, with multi-factor authentication (MFA) bypass kits accounting for millions of phishing messages. While off-the-shelf toolkits have contributed to the prevalence of phishing against…

Shocking revelations about the US government data siphoning, the historic security breach at Windsor Castle, and the MOVEit hack leave people confused. All of this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the Smashing Security podcast by…

Tools sold separately by iFixit It’s been a long time coming, but soon you’ll be able to repair your Microsoft Surface with official parts. Warranty services are very comprehensive, but repairs can be very expensive once they expire. Off-the-shelf parts…