Month: June 2022

The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) syndicate has amassed nearly 50 victims in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand within two months of its emergence in the wild, making it a prominent threat in a short window. “Black Basta has been observed targeting a range of industries, including manufacturing, construction, transportation, telcos, pharmaceuticals,
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Petrol retailers have been accused of forcing “rocket and feather” pricing after unleaded hit a new, and unexpected, record average high over the weekend. Motoring organisations had forecast a decline in wholesale costs to have been reflected at the pumps, but data from Experian Catalist revealed on Monday that petrol had reached 191.1p a litre
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She had the brains, the physical talent, the perfect name, and, fortunately for NASA, a weak forehand. Otherwise, we may well be remembering Sally Ride today as a professional women’s tennis player, not the first American woman in space. She was that good — nationally ranked in the juniors at Westlake School for Girls, now
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A malware-as-a-service (Maas) dubbed Matanbuchus has been observed spreading through phishing campaigns, ultimately dropping the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation framework on compromised machines. Matanbuchus, like other malware loaders such as BazarLoader, Bumblebee, and Colibri, is engineered to download and execute second-stage executables from command-and-control (C&C) servers on infected systems without detection. Available on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums
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Xiaomi 12T specifications have been leaked by a tipster. As per the alleged specifications, the Xiaomi smartphone will sport a 120Hz refresh rate display, a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC paired with at least two configurations under the hood, 120W fast charging, optical image stabilisation (OIS) in the camera, and MIUI 13 OS skin. The
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Beyond the protests at the last remaining abortion clinic for hundreds of miles, the patients have been arriving one after the other.  Deeply personal decisions are being made and procedures undertaken quickly before this choice becomes illegal in the state of Mississippi. As the Jackson Women’s Health Organization closed for the day, we sat down
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A move by the British government to rip up post-Brexit trade arrangements in Northern Ireland is “illegal and unrealistic”, the European Union’s ambassador to the UK has warned. Speaking to Sky News’ Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, Joao Vale de Almeida argued steps being taken by Boris Johnson’s administration over the Northern Ireland Protocol were
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