Tag: pro
You now need a VPN to use X in Brazil
If you’re living or heading to Brazil anytime soon, you now need to get one of the best VPN apps to keep accessing a popular social media service. As per several media reports, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered the suspension of X (formerly known as Twitter) within the country late…
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Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards up to $250,000
To mark Google Chrome’s 16th anniversary, and its associated Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP)’s 14th birthday, Google has announced a series of updates to the scheme designed to attract security and vulnerability researchers to share details of arising issues. In a blog post by Information Security Engineer Amy Ressler, the scheme…
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This malware pretends to be a real VPN service to lure in victims
Hackers have been found impersonating legitimate, enterprise-grade VPN tools in an attempt to compromise large organizations, deploy additional malware, and possibly exfiltrate sensitive information. A new report from cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro spotted a fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect program being distributed online. Palo Alto GlobalProtect is a security solution…
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Doomed to fail? Most AI projects flop within 12 months, with billions of dollars being wasted
New research has claimed the vast majority (80%) of AI-based projects fail, double the normal failure rate for non-AI tech proposals. A study by the Rand Corporation found only 14% of organizations felt fully ready to adopt AI, despite 84% of business leaders reporting they believe the technology will have…
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Hackers have exploited a WPS Office zero-day to deploy dangerous malware
The popular WPS Office workplace productivity software suite carried a vulnerability which allowed some threat actors to deploy backdoors to their target’s endpoints, experts have claimed. Cybersecurity researchers at ESET found WPS Office was vulnerable to an improper path validation flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7262. It carries a severity score of…
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Hackers linked to Russian government found using some very familiar malware tools
Research from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has found evidence Russian-backed threat actor APT29 used iterations of watering hole campaigns which were ‘identical or strikingly similar’ to exploits developed by notorious spyware companies NSO Group and Intellexa. TAG found Mongolian government websites were hit by multiple campaigns earlier in 2024…
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