One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attackers, primarily financially motivated criminals, began using in the last year or so. Websites...
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Energy companies are raising money at IPO at their fastest pace this century, taking advantage of investors’ hunt for new ways to bet on the boom in power-intensive AI data centers. Initial public offerings for energy firms raised $12.6 billion in the first half of this year, according to data firm Dealogic. That marks the...
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
Sheetz, a US convenience store chain, is moving its 838 locations off VMware. Sheetz has used VMware virtualization across two Dell R440/R450-series servers at each of its locations since 2019. Now it’s migrating 12 to 14 virtual machines (VMs) in each of its stores from VMware vSphere to StorMagic’s SvHCI, “with an additional two VMs...
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
Right on the heels of Microsoft releasing a record number of security patches, a researcher has published exploit code that can enable low-privilege Windows accounts to make sensitive changes to administrator accounts. The exploit, which multiple researchers say works, is sending Microsoft scrambling, yet again, to patch a zero-day released by an anonymous researcher who...
(BPRW) AFRICANANCESTRY.COM LEADERSHIP HONORED FOR GROUNDBREAKING WORK IN GENETIC ANCESTRY TRACING AND AS STEWARDS OF CULTURAL WELL-BEING
(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC – Once approached with hesitation in the African American community, DNA has become increasingly accessible and valuable for Black people. AfricanAncestry.com, a pioneer in genetic ancestry tracing, has helped mor…
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was made by researchers at security firm ESET after identifying 11 firmware images, at least one from 2013, that were known to be defective but...
(BPRW) Black-Led Fintech TGUC Financial Manages a $150 Million Home-Improvement Loan Portfolio, Built to Widen Access in Underserved Communities
(Black PR Wire) ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — TGUC Financial, Inc., a technology-driven home improvement financing platform, today announced it now manages a $150 million home-improvement loan portfolio — built on a funding model designed to broaden who …
Europe Takes Step Toward Possible Social Media Ban for Children
After the release of a new report, the European Commission is considering changing the rules across the 27-nation bloc.
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the public and private sectors. Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been compromising routers for years, sometimes in prolonged tugs-of-war...
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other...