S3 Ep136: Navigating a manic malware maelstrom
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You Can Buy a Tetris-Playing Chicken McNugget at McDonald’s in China
The toys that McDonald’s serves up with its Happy Meals are often the best reason to visit the fast food joint, but instead of targeting kids, McDonald’s in China is going after nuggs fans with a penchant for retro gaming. On sale now at locations across the country is a super-sized, Tetris-playing Chicken McNugget…
Ketamine Might Be on Par With the Gold Standard for Treatment-Resistant Depression, Study Finds
New research this week is the latest to find that ketamine can help people with difficult-to-treat depression. The study has found that people with treatment-resistant depression responded as well to ketamine therapy as those who were given electroconvulsive therapy, a commonly used intervention for these cases.
Trump Mocks DeSantis’ Botched Campaign Announcement With a Hitler Deepfake
Former President Donald Trump released a clip of a fake Twitter spaces event Wednesday where he used what appeared to be the deepfaked voices of Elon Musk, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, a coughing Dick Cheney, Satan, and, yes, Adolf Hitler, to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The bizarre two-minute clip, which was…
Simple Kit Turns Your Original N64 Controller Into a Bluetooth Gamepad
The Nintendo 64 was the first to introduce console gamers to analog control sticks, but over 25 years after its debut, many of those original controllers aren’t doing so well (we blame Mario Party). With 8BitDo’s new N64 Mod Kit, you can now give them a welcome and very easy upgrade, including a hall effect joystick…
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Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry
A new botnet called Dark Frost has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry.
“The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has expanded to encompass hundreds of compromised devices,” Akamai security researcher Allen West said in a new technical analysis shared with The Hacker News.
Targets include
“The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has expanded to encompass hundreds of compromised devices,” Akamai security researcher Allen West said in a new technical analysis shared with The Hacker News.
Targets include
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Zyxel Issues Critical Security Patches for Firewall and VPN Products
Zyxel has released software updates to address two critical security flaws affecting select firewall and VPN products that could be abused by remote attackers to achieve code execution.
Both the flaws – CVE-2023-33009 and CVE-2023-33010 – are buffer overflow vulnerabilities and are rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system.
A brief description of the two issues is below –
Both the flaws – CVE-2023-33009 and CVE-2023-33010 – are buffer overflow vulnerabilities and are rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system.
A brief description of the two issues is below –
CVE-2023-33009 –
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‘Operation Magalenha’ Attacks Gives Window Into Brazil’s Cybercrime Ecosystem
A campaign against customers of Portuguese banks uses a capable financial malware strain dubbed PeepingTitle, written in the Delphi programming language.
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Google Cloud Bug Allows Server Takeover From CloudSQL Service
Researchers could access sensitive data and steal secrets by exploiting a vulnerability in GCP’s security layer, eventually running rampant in the environment.
The New Barbie Trailer Gets Even Weirder Than You Were Expecting
Have you been wondering what the heck the Barbie movie is about? Sure, we all love the trailers and images but what’s the actual story? Well, in a brand new trailer, we find out…and it has to do with Barbie’s feet. At least, it starts there.