Caesars Entertainment, operator of the venerable Las Vegas casino Caesars Palace, has revealed that it paid a significant sum of money to its attackers following a recent ransomware attack, which was possibly the work of the same threat actor that breached competitor MGM Resorts using the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware. In a filing made to the US…
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Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all moved to patch a critical zero-day flaw affecting their browsers and potentially linked to the dissemination of malicious commercial spyware. The vulnerability in question has been assigned the designation CVE-2023-4863. It is a heap-based buffer overflow flaw that enables a remote attacker to perform an out-of-bounds memory write via…
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The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation appears to be behind the ongoing cyber attack on US hospitality and leisure operator MGM Resorts, which has disrupted operations at Las Vegas casinos including Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, the MGM Grand and New York-New York. First revealed by malware research collective VX-Underground, the gang claimed it had conducted a…
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This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian celebrates his 100th episode of the podcast. He invites Game Informer’s Marcus Stewart on to talk about the massive amount of news out of the world of Nintendo this week. They also chat about Brian’s recent trip to Seattle to visit PAX West, Nintendo Live, and The Pokémon…
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Disaster recovery planning is vital for smaller businesses. The rise of cyber attacks, especially ransomware, has increased the risk of disruption and data loss to smaller firms. SMEs are also vulnerable to risks in their digital and software supply chains. At the same time, enterprises and public sector organisations are increasingly aware of the risks…
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A nation-state threat actor backed by the North Korean government has begun a new phase of a nearly two-year-old campaign targeting legitimate cyber security researchers, leveraging an as-yet undisclosed zero-day to gain access to their victims. The zero-day in question was uncovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). It has been reported to the supplier whose…
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Cyber attacks in 2023 continue to gain traction. As dwell times lessen, cyber crime rates are developing quicker, leading to higher frequencies of cyber attack attempts. But companies at large and small scales are fighting back, opting to adopt higher protective measures with expanded cyber security capabilities. For example, Google has recently switched to AI-backed…
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The reports about an insufficient supply of compute GPUs used for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) servers became common in recent months as demand for GPUs to power generative AI applications exploded. TSMC admits that the biggest compute GPU supply bottleneck is its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging capacity, as it is used by virtually…
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According to fresh SEC filings from Arm, the chip IP designer has secured a slew of industry investors ahead of the company’s impending IPO. Aiming for a strong start to what Reuters reports is projected to be a $52 billion IPO valuation, Arm has been seeking out major industry customers as cornerstone investors, successfully lining…
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Research from consulting firm Kin + Carta for its Leadership in tech 2024 report found that due to the rate of technological disruption, the majority of businesses are experiencing tech anxiety among their senior leadership team. Kin + Carta defines tech anxiety as the feeling senior leaders have as a result of the rapid pace…
