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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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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:28
Money Message Ransomware Group Hits PharMerica and Steals 5.8 million Patient Records
Written by Sean Kalinich
The same Ransomware gang that hit MSI recently also appears to have hit Pharmacy services provider PharMerica and stole information on 5.8 million patents. The data that was exfiltrated as part of the attack includes social security numbers, full name…
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:07
Ransomware Group RA Group Is Open for Business in the US and South Korea
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a new player in the ransomware space. Dubber RA group this new organization appears to have had their grand opening last month (April 2023). RA Group published a data leak site on the dark web as part of…
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 09:56
Attackers using Google’s Golang to Take a Bite Out of Apple
Written by Sean Kalinich
Two new variants of Cobalt Strike written in Ggoogle’s Golang have popped up on the wild internet. According to SentinelOne, this new flavor is set up to target macOS systems. They have also noted that this new beacon (called Geacon)…
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Monday, 15 May 2023 16:05
Cloud Management Systems for Three Industrial Cellular Providers Put OT Environments at Risk
Written by Sean Kalinich
Cybersecurity firm OTORIO has announced several new vulnerabilities in cloud management platforms at Black Hat Asia 2023. The Israeli company named three industrial cellular providers with a total of eleven vulnerabilities which could allow for complete compromise of operational technology…
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Monday, 15 May 2023 14:11
Jedi Survivor – The Quick, Dirty, and Limited Spoilers Review
Written by Sean Kalinich
Game reviews are always fun things to do. I mean it is playing a game and then writing about anything you found while playing it (sounds like fun). The challenge comes from being objective in your writing Vs subjective. Something…
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Monday, 15 May 2023 11:06
Discord Discloses Breach from 3rd Party Support Account
Written by Sean Kalinich
The popular socialization platform, Discord, is alerting users to a data breach that occurred due to the compromise of a support agent account. The breach appears to be limited in scope to the ticket queue that the third-party agent was…
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Friday, 12 May 2023 07:52
UK’s CMA Adds Salt to the Wound After Blocking Microsoft Activision Blizzard Deal
Written by Sean Kalinich
The UK’s CMA (Competition and Markets Authority has added new restrictions on Microsoft and Activision Blizzard after already issuing a formal anti-trust warning over the deal back in January. Now the regulator has added additional orders that prevent either party…
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Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:37
Because Sharing is Caring Why Shouldn’t Leaked Ransomware Code Not Get Reused?
Written by Sean Kalinich
After a Leak of Babuk ransomware source code in late 2021 researchers have identified 9 separate new stains that are intended to target VMware ESXi. The new variants first started showing up in the 2cond half of 2022. As with…
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Thursday, 11 May 2023 10:35
Microsoft Gaming’s Fall is all About Ignoring Game Quality Than Anything
Written by Sean Kalinich
After Phill Spencer’s recent comments on why Microsoft can’t beat Sony or Nintendo via “normal methods” we started to wonder why he would make this kind of statement. So, with our usual OCD we dove into some of the things…
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Thursday, 11 May 2023 09:19
When Patching is Not Enough: How Attackers are Looking at Patches to Find the Next Flaw
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for May included a patch that was a fix for a flaw that was created from another patch back in March 2023. The March patch was meant to fix vulnerability CVE-2023-23397 which was a known exploited critical…
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Wednesday, 10 May 2023 17:41
The Greatness Phishing as a Service Platform Intended to Make Targeting MS365 Easier
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is an old saying that says, when you can no longer do, you teach. This might be a relatively true axiom in the regular world, but in the world of cybercrime it is certainly not what you find happening.…
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Wednesday, 10 May 2023 10:47
Meta is Dabbling in AI Too with ImageBind Hoping to Mimic Human Perception
Written by Sean Kalinich
If I were to build a list of companies that I would not want to build an AI project Meta, the parent company of Facebook is probably sitting at the top of the list. Yet here we are with a…
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Tuesday, 09 May 2023 12:39
Intel Investigating MSI Data Breach and Private Code Signing Key Theft
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday we reported on a ransomware attack that impacted PC and component manufacturer MSI. When they, MSI, disclosed the attack they claimed there was no significant impact, but failed to consider that most, if not all, modern ransomware attacks also…
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