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Crypto miner arrested for skipping on millions in cloud server bills

A 45-year-old Nebraska man Charles O. Parks III has been charged with numerous financial crimes, including wire fraud and money laundering, as part of a scheme defrauding two cloud storage providers based in Seattle and Redmond, Washington. Ars Technica, reporting on the indictment, beat us to the punch in alleging…

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A sneaky new steganography malware is exploiting Microsoft Word — hundreds of firms around the world hit by attack

Hackers have been observed using steganography to target hundreds of organizations in Latin America with infostealers, remote access trojans (RAT), and more.  The campaign, dubbed SteganoArmor, was discovered by researchers from Positive Technologies. For those unfamiliar with steganography, it’s a technique of hiding data inside benign files. Hackers use it…

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Namecheap’s Spaceship celebrates one year

Spaceship is one year old and already has more than 750,000 domains under their management.  Spaceship was developed by Namecheap to help people create websites by providing a central place for users to choose, buy, connect, and manage their website and entire digital estate. The platform currently offers shared and…

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This might be the world’s most powerful all-in-one PC ever built — but you won’t be able to run Windows on it anytime soon

A super-powerful all-in-one PC has been unveiled by Alafia AI, a startup specializing in advanced imaging appliances.  The Alafia Aivas SuperWorkstation is a medical imaging behemoth powered by an Ampere Altra Max 128 ARM v8.2+ 64-bit CPU running at 3.0GHz, and Nvidia GPUs. The SuperWorkstation sports a 27-inch 4K touch-sensitive…

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Cisco Duo says a third-party data breach stole MFA SMS logs

Cisco Duo has confirmed some sensitive customer data was stolen after a third-party cyber-incident. In a breach notification letter sent to affected customers, Cisco Duo said that its telephony provider, which it didn’t name, was compromised on April 1 2024. Unidentified threat actors mounted a phishing attack against the third…

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Ransomware attack hits top chipmaker Nexperia, huge hoard of data set to be leaked

Top chipmaker Nexperia suffered a ransomware attack last month which saw threat actors get away with a terabyte of sensitive corporate data.  “Nexperia has become aware that an unauthorized third party accessed certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024,” the company said in a statement shared with BleepingComputer. “We promptly…

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