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This cybercrime network acts like a food delivery service for criminals — and even uses legitimate affiliate marketing techniques to recruit other partners-in-crime
Cybersecurity researchers from Infoblox have revealed new research on VexTrio, a “massive criminal affiliate program” that the team says counts more than five dozen criminal organizations in its customer list. As explained by the researchers, VexTrio is a complex, and massive, traffic direction system (TDS). It operates similarly to a…
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Popular file transfer software has a seriously dangerous security bug that gives anyone free administrator rights — so patch it now to avoid another Moveit-like debacle
GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT), the program at the center of a major data reach scandal around a year ago, may have a new high-severity vulnerability which users should patch immediately to avoid more trouble. Cybersecurity researchers Mohammed Eldeeb and Islam Elrfai from Spark Engineering Consultants discovered the flaw in…
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Lenovo joins consumer SSD market with the help of HP’s storage partner — don’t expect superfast PCIe 5.0 or USB4 SSDs just yet though
Chinese tech giant Lenovo is set to debut a range of consumer solid state drives following a new partnership with BIWIN, a memory and storage manufacturer best known for producing products for brands such as HP and Acer. As a result of this new collaboration, BIWIN will produce Lenovo-branded SSDs,…
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This devious malware uses Bond-inspired driver to kill security suites — then proceeds to systematically encrypt your data and drops a $2 million ransom request
Experts have identified a new ransomware variant that uses an outdated, vulnerable driver, to pose as an antivirus program, kill all real security programs on the computer, and then infect the device. The researchers dubbed the variant Kasseika and believe it to be linked to an old malware variant that…
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Over a thousand jobs are going at eBay as ecommerce giant admits it grew too fast
eBay has announced plans to cut around a thousand jobs as the company looks to ensure its “long-term success”. An announcement by company CEO Jamie Iannone confirmed that “approximately 1,000 roles,” or the equivalent of around 9% of the company’s full-time workforce, would be eliminated as it strives for better…
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Google’s Gemini AI is going to try and help build better online ads
Google has announced plans to use its Gemini AI platform to try and revolutionize online advertising for businesses. This move is a significant step in the direction of utilizing generative AI to enhance the effectiveness and cost efficiency of adverts, and promises to deliver a much more streamlined creation process.…
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