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North Korean APT Uses Fake Job Offers as Linux Malware Lure

SecureWorld News

ESET researchers have discovered a new Lazarus Group campaign targeting Linux users. According to a recent blog post : "Operation DreamJob is the name for a series of campaigns where the group uses social engineering techniques to compromise its targets, with fake job offers as the lure.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? Read more about it in this post.

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New 'CryWiper' Looks Like Ransomware, Targets Russian Courts

SecureWorld News

Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a previously unidentified data wiper, which they have named CryWiper, that was used to attack Russian government agencies, including mayors' offices and courts. The malware was developed in C++ and compiled using the MinGW-w64 toolkit and the GCC compiler.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals. State-sponsored cyber espionage is becoming increasingly common, with threat actors operating out of Russia, potentially India, and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. After a brief hiatus, Emotet threat actors resumed their operations in early March 2023.

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This Researcher Hacked Into 35 Major Tech Companies, Including Microsoft, Tesla, and Netflix

Gizmodo

Alex Birsan, a Romanian threat researcher, recently made over $130,000 by virtuously breaking into IT systems at dozens of major tech companies. Read more.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I’m not sure how I feel about security researchers calling this flaw “not that bad.” Vaughan-Nichols writes about the first malware discovered running on AWS Lambda. Operating Systems/Applications.