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  • Slashdot: UK Plans To Ban Public Sector Organizations From Paying Ransomware Hackers

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/14/160241/uk-plans-to-ban-public-sector-organizations-from-paying-ransomware-hackers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK Plans To Ban Public Sector Organizations From Paying Ransomware Hackers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.K. government is considering a targeted ban on ransomware payments for public sector entities in response to rising cyberattacks. This proposal aims to disrupt the financial incentives that fuel…

  • Cloud Blog: Backscatter: Automated Configuration Extraction

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/backscatter-automated-configuration-extraction/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Backscatter: Automated Configuration Extraction Feedly Summary: Written by: Josh Triplett Executive Summary Backscatter is a tool developed by the Mandiant FLARE team that aims to automatically extract malware configurations. It relies on static signatures and emulation to extract this information without dynamic execution, bypassing anti-analysis logic present in…

  • The Register: UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/uk_ransomware_payout_ban/ Source: The Register Title: UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector Feedly Summary: Stronger proposals may also see private sector applying for a payment ‘license’ A total ban on ransomware payments across the public sector might actually happen after the UK government opened a consultation on how to combat the trend…

  • The Register: Miscreants ‘mass exploited’ Fortinet firewalls, ‘highly probable’ zero-day used

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/miscreants_mass_exploited_fortinet_firewalls/ Source: The Register Title: Miscreants ‘mass exploited’ Fortinet firewalls, ‘highly probable’ zero-day used Feedly Summary: Ransomware ‘not off the table,’ Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg Miscreants running a “mass exploitation campaign" against Fortinet firewalls, which peaked in December, may be using an unpatched zero-day vulnerability to compromise the equipment, according…

  • The Register: HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk’s X for AI servers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/hpe_x_ai/ Source: The Register Title: HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk’s X for AI servers Feedly Summary: That’s Cray cray Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reportedly secured a contract to supply Elon Musk’s X, the site better known as Twitter, with more than $1 billion in AI-accelerating servers.… AI Summary and…

  • Rekt: Moby Trade – Rekt

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    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/mobytrade-rekt Source: Rekt Title: Moby Trade – Rekt Feedly Summary: When your private keys become the white whale, who’s really hunting whom? Moby Trade loses roughly $1 million to a compromised key, while white hats rescue $1.47M from the depths. Some lessons of the sea only need to be learned once. AI Summary…

  • The Register: Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/azure_m365_outage/ Source: The Register Title: Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions Feedly Summary: It’s sorted out (mostly), but European users had a manic Monday Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) was offline for four hours during Monday’s busy start for European subscribers.… AI Summary and…

  • Slashdot: Companies Deploy AI To Curb Hiring as ‘Cost Avoidance’ Gains Ground

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/13/1633224/companies-deploy-ai-to-curb-hiring-as-cost-avoidance-gains-ground?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Companies Deploy AI To Curb Hiring as ‘Cost Avoidance’ Gains Ground Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a growing trend among U.S. companies to leverage AI technologies as a means of reducing hiring costs, primarily within the software development and customer service sectors. This…

  • The Register: Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/ Source: The Register Title: Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Feedly Summary: Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy make migration a mission Exclusive Broadcom has lost another large customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs,…

  • The Register: Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/data_broker_hacked/ Source: The Register Title: Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules Feedly Summary: PLUS: Data broker leak reveals extent of info trading; Hot new ransomware gang might be all AI, no bark; and more Infosec in brief Gravy Analytics, a vendor of location intelligence info…