Uptycs Threat Research Team has discovered malware that not only hijacks vulnerable *nix-based servers and uses them to mine cryptocurrency but actually modifies their CPU configurations in a bid to increase mining performance at the cost of performance in other applications. Tom’s Hardware reports: Perpetrators use a Golang-based worm to exploit known vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882…

Data theft, insider threats and imposters accessing sensitive customer data have apparently gotten so bad inside Amazon, the company is considering rolling out keyboard-stroke monitoring for its customer-service reps. A confidential memo from inside Amazon explained that customer service credential abuse and data theft was on the rise, according to Motherboard which reviewed the document….

E-goliath’s subsidiary drops ‘draconian’ contract terms that absorbed personal work, demanded license rights Analysis Amazon Game Studios has reportedly dropped terms in its employment contract that gave the internet giant a license to the intellectual property created by employees, even to games they develop on their own time.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

CAPTCHA-protected malicious URLs are snowballing lately, researchers said. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Samsung Group’s leader, Jay Y. Lee, is out of jail on parole today. Lee was serving a 30-month sentence for his role in “Choi-gate,” a major 2016 South Korean political scandal that brought down South Korean then-President Park Geun-hye. In 2017, Lee was originally sentenced to…

Emsisoft is creating its own decryption utility based on the decryption keys released by the SynAck ransomware group. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The eBPF program started as just a network filter, but it’s become Linux’s swiss-army knife tool and now its future will be in the hands of the eBPF Foundation. …read more Source:: ZDNet

This isn’t Boeing very well, is it? Boeing’s troubled CST-100 Starliner capsule, once expected to ferry astronauts to and from space, is heading back to the workshop after suffering mechanical failures.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

That’s what NY State suggests could happen, given the utter lack of cybersec protection at many private equity & hedge fund firms. Can AI help avert it? …read more Source:: Threatpost

Last month we brought word of the IKEA VINDRIKTNING, a $12 USD air quality sensor that could easily be upgraded to log data over the network with the addition of an ESP8266. It only took a couple of wires soldered to the original PCB, and since there was so much free space inside the enclosure,…