Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in effect sooner than expected, according to a report from Reuters. The curbs were… Read More »
Enlarge / Ukrainian soldiers. Getty Images reader comments 10 with Russia’s military intelligence unit has been targeting Ukrainian Android devices with “Infamous Chisel,” the tracking name for new malware that’s designed to backdoor devices and steal critical information, Western intelligence agencies said on Thursday. “Infamous Chisel is a collection of components which enable persistent access… Read More »
Enlarge / Viktor Zhora from Ukraine’s information protection service, says cyber has become a major component of hybrid warfare. Dragonflypd.com/Black Hat reader comments 21 with Viktor Zhora, the public face of Ukraine’s success against Russian cyberattacks, received a hero’s welcome earlier this month on stage at Black Hat, the world’s biggest cybersecurity gathering, in Las… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 43 with Hackers working for Russia’s Federal Security Service have mounted multiple cyberattacks that used USB-based malware to steal large amounts of data from Ukrainian targets for use in its ongoing invasion of its smaller neighbor, researchers said. “The sectors and nature of the organizations and machines targeted may have given… Read More »
Enlarge / Locked out. reader comments 30 with Share this story Threat actors aligned with Russia and Belarus are targeting elected US officials supporting Ukraine, using attacks that attempt to compromise their email accounts, researchers from security firm Proofpoint said. The campaign, which also targets officials of European nations, uses malicious JavaScript that’s customized for… Read More »
Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images reader comments 34 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of… Read More »
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. reader comments 62 with 0 posters participating Share this story Threat actors loyal to the Kremlin have stepped up attacks in support of its invasion of Ukraine, with denial-of-service attacks hitting German banks and other organizations and the… Read More »
Enlarge / Fawley Oil Refinery on a bright day. Getty Images reader comments 43 with 0 posters participating Share this story One of the Kremlin’s most active hacking groups targeting Ukraine recently tried to hack a large petroleum refining company located in a NATO country. The attack is a sign that the group is expanding… Read More »
reader comments 65 with 0 posters participating Share this story Mayors’ offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky and the Izvestia news service. Kaspersky researchers have named the wiper… Read More »
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. reader comments 96 with 0 posters participating Share this story The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started shortly after the governing body voted to declare… Read More »