More Chinese agencies and state-backed companies across the country have asked their staff to not bring Apple iPhones and other foreign devices to work, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. For over a decade, China has been seeking to reduce reliance on foreign technologies, asking state-affiliated firms such as banks
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Dec 16, 2023NewsroomOnline Security / Cybercrime Microsoft is warning of an uptick in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it’s tracking as Storm-0539 for orchestrating gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attacks is to propagate
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Dec 16, 2023NewsroomCyber Security / Incident Response China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Friday unveiled draft proposals detailing its plans to tackle data security events in the country using a color-coded system. The effort is designed to “improve the comprehensive response capacity for data security incidents, to ensure timely and effective control,
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Dec 15, 2023NewsroomCryptocurrency / Malware Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger published a new version of its “@ledgerhq/connect-kit” npm module after unidentified threat actors pushed malicious code that led to the theft of more than $600,000 in virtual assets. The compromise was the result of a former employee falling victim to a phishing attack, the company
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Dec 15, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / User Tracking Google on Thursday announced that it will start testing a new feature called “Tracking Protection” starting January 4, 2024, to 1% of Chrome users as part of its efforts to deprecate third-party cookies in the web browser. The setting is designed to limit “cross-site tracking by restricting website access
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In this article NVDA AMD INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, with U.S. President Joe Biden (not pictured), announces the tech firm’s plan to build a $20 billion plant in Ohio, from the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, January 21, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters
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Dec 14, 2023NewsroomCybercrime / Threat intelligence Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a network of bogus websites and social media pages to other criminal actors, netting them millions of dollars in
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