Last night, Critical Role played a Legend of Zelda-inspired tabletop roleplaying game, and we might never get to see it, play it, or hear about it ever again. This could change but… who knows. The point is that there is a Nintendo-approved Zelda-inspired TTRPG out there, totally playable, and nobody is handing it…
Lawyers for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are accusing the Federal Trade Commission of attempting to exert more power than the agency is granted by law. The agency is planning to revise its 2020 settlement with Facebook over the company’s privacy violations, which fined the company $5 billion, a…
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Cybercriminals are constantly looking for novel ways to evade detection and enact harm. Outdated copies of common security tools have become one avenue. Microsoft, cybersecurity software company Fortra™ and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) recently came together to combat this issue.
On March 31, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a court order allowing Microsoft, Fortra, and Health-ISAC to disrupt the malicious infrastructure criminals use to facilitate their attacks. Cobalt Strike, which is provided by Fortra, is a legitimate and popular post-exploitation tool used for adversary simulation; however, threat actors will sometimes abuse and alter older versions of the software. These illegal copies are referred to as “cracked” and have been used to launch destructive attacks, such as those against the Government of Costa Rica and the Irish Health Service Executive. Microsoft software development kits and APIs have also been abused as part of the malware coding and distribution infrastructure to target and mislead victims.
Horror fans are already quite familiar with Dracula, Frankenstein, and Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles, but Canterbury Classics makes a compelling case for a re-read with these beautifully illustrated, cleverly engineered, genuinely frightening pop-up versions.
Sam Altman wants to hit the reset button. The OpenAI CEO threw a tantrum last week when it became apparent that the European Union planned to go ahead with a proposed law that would institute a broad regulatory framework to protect against the more disruptive impacts of artificial intelligence. While such regulations…
DoS (denial-of-service) attacks play an unusual role in cyber crime. Unlike most forms of criminal hacking, they aren’t primarily designed to capture or sensitive information, which can be sold for profit. Instead, DoS attacks are intended to shut down or severely disrupt an organisation’s systems. There is no direct benefit to the criminal hacker in doing this, but the loss of service can cost the victim up to £100,000. There are several ways that a criminal hacker can launch a DoS attacks, and countless reasons they might be motivated to pull off an attack. How does a DoS attack work?
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Critics are speaking out against an AI-generated expansion of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting, among others, which fills the gaps previously left to the imagination. An image of the recreated painting shows an expansive background to the original painting that shows a canvas filled with imagery of Mona Lisa’s…
Researchers discovered a suspected backdoor-like behavior within Gigabyte systems that exposes devices to compromise. Researchers from firmware security firm Eclypsium have discovered a suspected backdoor-like behavior within Gigabyte systems. The experts discovered that the firmware in Gigabyte systems drops and executes a Windows native executable during the system startup process. The executable is utilized for insecure […]
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One of the beautiful things about the Spider-Verse movies is they create an open slate for any and everything Spider-Man to happen. And, with the second film in that series opening this week, one of the film’s producers confirmed that soon the real world is about to get very Spider-Versey.
