2024
06.08

Hackers have devised a new, deceptive method to trick users into installing a malware named ClickFix, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. The scheme involves enticing users with fake solutions to common errors in popular services such as Chrome, OneDrive, and Microsoft. Once users download and execute these “fixes” by clicking the Copy fix button, they unwittingly run a PowerShell or a Windows Run dialogue command that compromises their systems.

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2024
05.08

Chinese cyberespionage group Velvet Ant was spotted using custom malware to target F5 BIG-IP appliances to breach target networks. In late 2023, Sygnia researchers responded to an incident suffered by a large organization that they attributed to a China-linked threat actor tracked as ‘Velvet Ant.

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2024
04.08

Google’s plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users.

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2024
03.08

The security risks posed by the Pickle format have once again come to the fore with the discovery of a new “hybrid machine learning (ML) model exploitation technique” dubbed Sleepy Pickle. The attack method, per Trail of Bits, weaponizes the ubiquitous format used to package and distribute machine learning (ML) models to corrupt the model itself, posing a severe supply chain risk to an organization’s downstream customers.

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2024
02.08

Diese Funktion, die alle paar Sekunden Bildschirmfotos des PCs speichern soll, sollte ursprünglich im Juni 2024 mit dem neuen PC-Typ eingeführt werden. Stattdessen wird Microsoft die Funktion namens „Recall“ zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt zunächst im kleineren Rahmen im „Windows-Insider“-Programm testen, wie das Unternehmen am ankündigte.

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