by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 10, 2025 | IT Security
Mischief-makers can guess the subjects being discussed with LLMs using a side-channel attack, according to Microsoft researchers. They told The Register that models from some providers, including Anthropic, AWS, DeepSeek, and Google, haven’t been fixed, putting...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 10, 2025 | IT Security
Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 34% of phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps. LinkedIn in particular has become a hotbed for phishing attacks, and for good...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 10, 2025 | IT Security
Allianz UK confirms it was one of the many companies that fell victim to the Clop gang’s Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attack after crims reported that they had attacked a subsidiary. The criminal crew behind the wave of zero-day data raids claimed to have...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 9, 2025 | IT Security
The Windows Start menu is getting its first major redesign since 2021 and will be rolled out to everyone with the November 11 Patch Tuesday update. The Start menu is now scrollable, so you can move through your apps in one place. New Start UI with Categories view This...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 8, 2025 | IT Security
OpenAI is preparing the GPT-5.1 family for public rollout. This includes GPT-5.1 (base), GPT-5.1 Reasoning, and GPT-5.1 Pro for those who pay a $200 monthly subscription. My sources tell me new GPT-5.1 models are headed to Azure, and that indicates the rollout is...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 8, 2025 | IT Security
interview Digital rights activist Esra’a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she’s made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders. “You cannot resist...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 7, 2025 | IT Security
A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tracking locations, and harvesting photos and logs before Samsung finally patched it...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 7, 2025 | IT Security
Several malicious packages on NuGet have sabotage payloads scheduled to activate in 2027 and 2028, targeting database implementations and Siemens S7 industrial control devices. The embedded malicious code uses a probabilistic trigger, so it may or may not activate...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 7, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft is testing a faster version of Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) and updated Smart App Control (SAC), allowing users to toggle it without requiring a Windows clean install. QMR enables IT administrators to resolve Windows boot failures remotely, eliminating the...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 7, 2025 | IT Security
Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the latter part of this decade. Socket’s researchers identified nine malicious packages...
