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A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. “Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targeting private individuals with targeted cyber espionage aimed at organizations,” Kaspersky said in a technical analysis published today. “Their toolkit features obfuscated, modular RATs and infostealers specifically engineered to bypass dynamic analysis.” The attacks are also characterized by the use of tools like Go2Tunnel for remote access and network tunneling. The wide variety of tools in its arsenal allows the threat actor to maintain persistent access…

Plus, we dive into Sony dumping PlayStation discs. Valve Valve’s Steam Machine is finally here! But while it lives up to much of the hype, its high price makes us wonder who it’s really for. In this episode, Senior Writer Jessica Conditt joins to talk about her experience with the Steam Machine and how it compares to consoles (which have also gotten very expensive). Also, we discuss Sony’s bombshell announcement about killing physical PlayStation discs in 2028 and Xbox’s confusing array of layoffs. Credits Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Jessica CondittProducer: Ben EllmanMusic: Dale North and Terrence…

The ear has always processed what is coming before the eye does. In horror movies, the music always tells you something bad is coming. Now researchers at Georgia Tech are using the same idea in real life to keep factory workers safe around robots. They have built a wearable headset called Spherephones that converts nearby robot movement into spatial music, giving you a warning before a machine gets too close. It helps the user stay aware without breaking their attention. How Spherephones turns robot movement into music you can feel The project started with a problem on factory floors, where…

On Wednesday, SwitchBot released its latest outdoor security camera. The smart home company bumped the resolution to 3K and now offers AI video descriptions, a feature that most security companies have added in the past year. SwitchBot’s new outdoor pan/tilt camera, starting at $80, includes motion tracking and object recognition and offers you the choice between wired and wireless connections. It can also hold up to 512GB of local video clips or offer cloud storage as an option in its subscription plans. The real standout is the AI recognition technology, which allows the camera to describe the events it captures. “A man in a UPS uniform…

The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek government involvement. But Citizen Lab does say it found overlaps between the attacks on Kouloglou’s phone and the use of Pegasus against seven Russian- and Belarusian-speaking journalists and activists between August 2020 and January 2023.“They did not only target an MEP, they spied on the investigation into spyware abuse itself. That shows the whole absurdity of the situation,” Hannah Neumann, a Green MEP who served on the spyware committee, tells WIRED.A spokesperson for the European…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖This past year, I have kept having the same conversation with founders, CISOs, security leaders, and investors.A question that once had an obvious answer is back:Should we buy this software, or should we build it ourselves?For most of the last twenty years, the answer was simple: buy.Building software was expensive. Running software was expensive. Maintaining software was expensive.Even a simple internal app needed several engineers, infrastructure experts, database skills, deployment, monitoring, security checks, and constant upkeep. The economics did not work.Now, that assumption needs to be questioned because the cost structure of software development has changed dramatically.Cybersecurity…

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificial intelligence chips to hyperscalers and other businesses in need of compute resources. The company said it’s going to establish a new entity called SB Neo Inc., which will operate as a neocloud business when it begins operations in fiscal 2027 next March, according to a press release. Ownership of the necloud business will be split, with SoftBank Corp. having a 51% stake, while SoftBank Group Corp. will get 49%. SB Neo…

Key Takeaways Active Directory security requires systematic monitoring of authentication events, privilege modifications, and configuration changes. Traditional native auditing generates excessive log volume without contextual analysis, missing critical attack patterns and lateral movement indicators. Advanced audit policy configuration enables granular event tracking across domain controllers, while SIEM integration provides automated correlation and behavioral analysis. Modern AD environments need real-time detection of privilege escalation, group membership changes, and policy drift. Comprehensive auditing encompasses user lifecycle management, Group Policy modifications, trust relationship monitoring, and certificate authority changes. Strategic implementation involves advanced audit policies, centralized log management, automated alerting, and compliance framework mapping…

Microsoft executive Nick Parker at a conference in 2018. (Microsoft Photo) Nick Parker, a 26-year Microsoft veteran who led the company’s worldwide commercial sales business, is leaving to become Nvidia’s new sales chief — a high-profile talent shift between two of the biggest players in the AI boom. Parker will join Nvidia as executive vice president of worldwide field operations, effective Aug. 24, according to a regulatory filing. He succeeds Jay Puri, who is retiring after 21 years running Nvidia’s global sales operation and will stay on as a senior adviser. “Microsoft and NVIDIA are great partners and I look…

Most ABM programs are just expensive guesswork. A static account list and a spray of targeted ads isn’t strategy. Signal-based ABM is what turns the approach into a revenue motion. ABM programs share the same fundamental problem. Someone builds an ideal account list. Marketing runs ads against it. Sales works the same names in rotation. Quarterly, the list gets reviewed, a few accounts get swapped out, and the cycle repeats. The program looks structured. The results rarely reflect that. The issue isn’t the accounts. It’s the timing. An account on the list today might be eighteen months from a purchase…