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Sunday, 21 May 2023 05:45
Work from Home Under Attack as Companies Seek to Offset the Cost of Workspaces
Written by Sean Kalinich
A couple of accountants came up the laneway the other day… No this is not a “Letterkenny” episode, but the cold intro style was spot to me for this one. It seems that in the pre-covid world many companies were…
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Friday, 19 May 2023 16:15
Millions of Android Devices Loaded with Malware Infected OEM Images.
Written by Sean Kalinich
TrendMicro made a shocking revelation at Black Hat Asia 2023 where they disclosed an operation that has been running since 2018 targeting Android devices. The scheme was uncovered in 2021 while researchers at TrendMicro were looking into SMS PVA (Phone…
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Friday, 19 May 2023 13:57
Apple Pushes Out Patches for Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
Written by Sean Kalinich
Apple has rushed to release patches for CVE-2023-32409, CVE-2023-28204, and CVE-2023-32373 all of which are in the WebKit Browser engine and across all Apple platforms (IOS, IpadOS and macOS). These three flaws have also been seen to be actively exploited…
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Friday, 19 May 2023 13:12
Apple Launches ChatGPT app Wile Banning it from Use by Employees
Written by Sean Kalinich
After learning that there were malicious ads containing links to ChatGPT apps (for Windows), Apple launched a legitimate app for IOS. The app brings the very popular LLM to Apple users at a time when some are becoming more hesitant…
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Friday, 19 May 2023 11:51
Well Crap, New Flaw in KeePass Allows Attackers to Recover Master Password via Memory Dump
Written by Sean Kalinich
KeePass has a bit of a memory issue. It seems that the master password is passed in clear text through memory. This tiny little (sarcasm) bug was identified by a security researcher who goes by the name as vdohney. A…
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Friday, 19 May 2023 10:56
More Repo Issues as Malware Found in NPM Node.js Packages
Written by Sean Kalinich
Popular open-source repository NPM is back in the news as a pair of packages were found to have malware in them. The malware in question is TurkoRat. TurkoRat is an open-source information stealer that has a few features attached to…
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Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:08
Apple Rolling out a Feature that Lets Your iPhone Sound Just Like You, What Could Go Wrong
Written by Sean Kalinich
I’ll take stupid features for $500 Alex. It seems that Apple is looking to deploy a feature that would allow your phone to sound and reply just like you do. The feature called “Personal Voice” uses a form of AI…
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Thursday, 18 May 2023 13:16
Microsoft Stops Pushing Defender Update That Hid a Bug Due to Bugs
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the last few months Windows 11 users have dealt with an annoying bug in Windows Defender. The bug was a continuous restart prompt to “enable” LSA protection. The problem is that LSA was enabled the whole time. The system…
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Thursday, 18 May 2023 09:53
Fake ChatGPT and Midjourney Sites used in Cyber-Attacks *** Updated ***
Written by Sean Kalinich
It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. As services like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Bard and other “AI” platform we viral, threat actors were bound to start trying to get in on the action. ChatGPT and Midjourney…
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Thursday, 18 May 2023 09:02
Inside a Ransomware as a Service Operation Shows How Simple and Profitable This can Be
Written by Sean Kalinich
As part of our ongoing (really never ending) series on modern ransomware, we are taking a look at a recent study of one Ransomware as a Service operation. In this case the look is at the Qilin scheme which was…
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:15
Steam Brings Their Own Version of the Short Attention Span Review
Written by Sean Kalinich
When DecryptedTech was much more hardware and gaming focused we used to have a review style called Short Attention Span. It was a very quick 90-minute test of a game which included first launch, general configuration and any game play…
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023 15:18
Azure Serial Console being Abused for VM Takeover
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google owned Mandiant has released findings on a group known as Roasted 0ktapus, Scattered Spider and UNC3944 (sort of rolls off the tongue there). This group has been seen to abuse the Microsoft Azure Serial Console to push out their…
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:30
Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace Found to Have Malicious Extensions Targeting Developers
Written by Sean Kalinich
Attackers are always looking to get targets coming and going. As such you have a very rich ecosystem of attack types to cover as much ground as possible. A concerning one has always been direct supply chain attacks. These attacks…
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023 13:22
Microsoft CEO Hints that New Games Might not be Available in the UK While Claiming Pro Competition Stance
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday we talked about how the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal had been approved by the European Commission (on antitrust) touting licensing deals that were pro competition. As we stated in that article, the licensing agreements only extend to cloud gaming…
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:34
ChatGPT-4 Seems to Show Sparks of Near Human Reasoning
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a quote from the movie “The Matrix” that has always stuck with me. It was a scene where Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) is explaining to Neo (Keanu Reeves) the state of the real world and the history that allowed…
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 15:43
Microsoft gets a Green Light from the European Commission on Activision Blizzard Buy
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like the folks at the European Commission have decided that Microsoft buying out Activision Blizzard for $69 billion (with a B) is not going to be a violation of their antitrust rules. The approval means that there are…
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