Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to U.S. companies. The post US Proposes AI Incident Alert System in Talks With China, Bessent Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microsoft’s own hardware-compatibility program signs the driver,Read More »Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data. The post Google Hit With $463 Million Fine for EU Location Data Rule Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. The primary targets of the campaign are individual web designers,Read More »Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto
Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU’s data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people’s location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google’s lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing complyRead More »Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data
The attackers impersonate at least 40 companies and disable 145 security products to deploy infostealer malware. The post Fake LastPass Installers Push Kernel-Level EDR Killer, ‘Rapuncel’ Stealer appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well asRead More »Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras
Noopur Davis never planned a career in cybersecurity. She was a developer at Intergraph, and for many years that was all she wanted to be. The post CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis – The Accidental Global CISO at Comcast appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming back, exposed systems, weak checks, fake fixes, and attack paths that look almostRead More »⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASK#STOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised hosts. The backdoor “automatically harvests and exfiltrates business documents, watches the filesystem for new files in real time, steals Wi-Fi passwords and clipboard contents, takes screenshots, andRead More »TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data
