The patch, Windows 11 update KB, will be available starting today, but at the time of writing, a page containing instructions for installing it isn't yet live.
You should be able to install it via Windows Update too. Almost two years after a wave of complaints flooded Google's support forums about YouTube accounts getting hijacked even if users had two-factor authentication enabled, Google's security team has finally tracked down the root cause of these attacks.
From a report: In a report published today, the Google Threat Analysis Group TAG attributed these incidents to "a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum. YouTubers were typically lured with potential sponsorship deals.
Victims were asked to install and test various applications and then publish a review. Apps typically used in these schemes involved antivirus software, VPN clients, music players, photo editors, PC optimizers, or online games.
But unbeknownst to the targets, the hackers hid malware inside the apps. Once the YouTube creators received and installed the demo app, the installer would drop malware on their devices, malware which would extract login credentials and authentication cookies from their browsers and send the stolen data to a remote server. The hackers would then use the authentication cookies to access a YouTuber's account -- bypassing the need to enter a two-factor authentication 2FA token -- and move to change passwords and the account's recovery email and phone numbers.
With the victims locked out of their accounts, the hackers would typically sell the hijacked YouTube channel on underground marketplaces for stolen identities. Mike Parson escalated his war with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday when his political operation published a video doubling down on his attack against a reporter who informed the state that a state website revealed teacher Social Security numbers.
From a report: The video is produced by Uniting Missouri, a political action committee created by Parson supporters to back his election campaign. The PAC continues to raise and spend large sums of money to promote Parson's political agenda. It operates without direct input from Parson on its activities. Louis Post-Dispatch is purely playing politics," the ad states.
John Hancock, chairman of Uniting Missouri, declined to discuss any specifics about the video. Google today released Chrome v95, the latest version of its popular web browser and a version that contains several changes that will likely cause problems for a considerable part of its users. A weekend cyberattack against Sinclair Broadcast Group was linked to one of the most infamous Russian cybergangs, called Evil Corp , Bloomberg reports.
From the report: The Sinclair hackers used malware called Macaw, a variant of ransomware known as WastedLocker. Evil Corp. Treasury Department in Since then, it has been accused by cybersecurity experts of rebranding in an attempt to avoid the sanctions.
People in the U. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Under Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the Federal Communications Commission is seeking to create new rules targeting spam text messages. Like another recent proposed rulemaking from the agency, the policy would push wireless carriers and telephone companies to block the spam before it ever gets to your phone. Akamai researchers have analyzed 10, JavaScript samples including malware droppers, phishing pages, scamming tools, Magecart snippets, cryptominers, etc.
BleepingComputer reports: Obfuscation is when easy-to-understand source code is converted into a hard to understand and confusing code that still operates as intended. Threat actors commonly use obfuscation to make it harder to analyze malicious scripts and to bypass security software. Obfuscation can be achieved through various means like the injection of unused code into a script, the splitting and concatenating of the code breaking it into unconnected chunks , or the use of hexadecimal patterns and tricky overlaps with function and variable naming.
But not all obfuscation is malicious or tricky. As the report explains, about 0. As such, detecting malicious code based on the fact that is obfuscated isn't enough on its own, and further correlation with malicious functionality needs to be made. This mixing with legitimate deployment is precisely what makes the detection of risky code challenging, and the reason why obfuscation is becoming so widespread in the threat landscape.
A hacker has breached the Argentinian government's IT network and stolen ID card details for the country's entire population , data that is now being sold in private circles. From a report: The agency is a crucial cog inside the Argentinian Interior Ministry, where it is tasked with issuing national ID cards to all citizens, data that it also stores in digital format as a database accessible to other government agencies, acting as a backbone for most government queries for citizen's personal information.
The attack requires the setting up of a replica of the target ATM because training the algorithm for the specific dimensions and key spacing of the different PIN pads is crucially important.
Next, the machine-learning model is trained to recognize pad presses and assign specific probabilities on a set of guesses, using video of people typing PINs on the ATM pad. For the experiment, the researchers collected 5, videos of 58 different people of diverse demographics, entering 4-digit and 5-digit PINs. The model can exclude keys based on the non-typing hand coverage, and deduces the pressed digits from the movements of the other hand by evaluating the topological distance between two keys.
The placement of the camera which captures the tries plays a key role, especially if recording left or right-handed individuals. Concealing a pinhole camera at the top of the ATM was determined to be the best approach for the attacker.
If the camera is capable of capturing audio too, the model could also use pressing sound feedback which is slightly different for each digit, thus making the predictions a lot more accurate. TV broadcasts for Sinclair-owned channels went down Sunday across the US in what the stations have described as technical issues, but which multiple sources told The Record to be a ransomware attack. From the report: The incident occurred in the early hours of the day and took down the Sinclair internal corporate network, email servers, phone services, and the broadcasting systems of local TV stations.
As a result of the attack, many channels weren't able to broadcast morning shows, news segments, and scheduled NFL games, according to a barrage of tweets coming from viewers and the TV channels themselves.
Cyber Games , a project founded in April and funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, has assembled a team of 25 Americans, ages 18 to 26, who will compete against other countries in the inaugural International Cybersecurity Challenge, scheduled to be held in Greece in June The cyber games consist of two broad formats, with the competitions organized and promoted to appeal to a generation raised on video gaming.
The goal is to identify and train candidates for careers in cybersecurity. There are king-of-the-hill-type games where one team tries to break into a network while the other team tries to defend it. There are also capture-the-flag-type games where teams must complete a series of puzzles that follow the basic tenets of cybersecurity programs, like decrypting an encrypted file or analyzing secret network traffic The U.
TJ O'Connor who served as a communications support officer with special forces, noted the unique platform presented by cybersecurity competitions.
Unlike other forms of computer science education, O'Connor said, staying up to date on the latest developments in cybersecurity is difficult, with hackers constantly iterating on and developing new tactics to break through cyberdefenses.
It's an attack-based curriculum, and then you can plan the most appropriate strategies when they occur," said O'Connor, who helped create and now chairs Florida Tech's cybersecurity program.
A breach at Twitch "was so bad that Twitch essentially had to rebuild much of its code infrastructure because the company eventually decided to assume most of its servers were compromised ," reports Vice. One former employee said they worked 20 hours a day for two months, another said he worked "three weeks straight. At the time, Twitch had few, if any, dedicated cybersecurity engineers, so developers and engineers from other teams were pulled into the effort, working together in meeting rooms with glass windows covered, frantically trying to figure out just how bad the hack was, according to five former Twitch employees who were at the company at the time Twitch's users would only find out about the breach six months after its discovery, on March 23, , when the company published a short blog post that explained "there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information," but did not let on nearly how damaging the hack was to Twitch internally When Twitch finally disclosed the hack in March of , security engineers at Twitch and Amazon, who had come to help with the incident response, concluded that the hack had started at least eight months before the discovery in October of , though they had no idea if the hackers had actually broken in even earlier than that, according to the former employee.
For months after the discovery and public announcement, several servers and services were internally labeled as "dirty," as a way to tell all developers and engineers to be careful when interacting with them, and to make sure they'd get cleaned up eventually.
This meant that they were still live and in use, but engineers had put restrictions on them in the event that they were still compromised, according to three former employees.
We still, years later, had a split between 'dirty' services servers or other things that were running when the hack took place and 'clean' services, which were fired up after," one of the former employees said. Other former employees, however, said that the damage of this new data breach appears to be less severe than the hack.
And that it's likely thanks to Twitch taking security more seriously since then. They found that the experiment was an "overwhelming success " — workers were able to work less, get paid the same, while maintaining productivity and improving personal well-being.
The Iceland research has been one of the few large, formal studies on the subject The trials also worked because both employees and employers were flexible, willing to experiment and make changes when something didn't work. In some cases, employers had to add a few hours back after cutting them too much Participants in the Iceland study reduced their hours by three to five hours per week without losing pay.
From a report: The attacks -- which had been previously unreported -- took place in March, July, and August and hit facilities in Nevada, Maine, and California, respectively. The attacks led to the threat actors encrypting files, and in one case, even corrupting a computer used to control the SCADA industrial equipment deployed inside the treatment plant.
The three new incidents were listed as examples of what could happen when water treatment facilities ignore and fail to secure their computer networks.
For at least the second time in , hackers have breached Acer's servers, this time plundering more than 60 gigabytes of data. HotHardware reports: Acer has confirmed that names, addresses, and phone numbers belonging to several million clients have been compromised in the breach, as well as sensitive corporate financial and audit details. As proof of the data theft, the ransomware gang posted a bunch of stolen files on the REvil website, including financial spreadsheets, bank balances, and bank communications.
It was never made clear if this was partially the result of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that had been used before then by Chinese hackers. In any event, now several months latest, hacking group Desorden said it has infiltrated Acer's servers in India and swiped data relating to "millions" of customers.
On Thursday, Gov. Michael Parson R called a news conference to warn his state's citizens about a nefarious plot against a teachers' database by a reporter from the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. From a report: "Through a multistep process," Parson said with great solemnity, "an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code and viewed the Social Security number of those specific educators. The website has been taken down; you can view an old version of it at the Internet Archive.
Boeing and U. From a report: The quality issue does not affect the immediate safety of flights, the company and the Federal Aviation Administration FAA said. MPS is no longer a supplier to Leonardo, Boeing said. The parts include fittings that help secure the floor beam in one fuselage section, as well as other fittings, spacers, brackets, and clips within other assemblies.
Undelivered aircraft will be reworked as needed, Boeing said, adding that any fleet actions would be determined through its normal review process and confirmed with the FAA. The defect was found as the planemaker grapples with other problems in its that have caused it to cut production and halt deliveries since May.
Apple said today that one of the reasons it does not allow app sideloading or the use of third-party app stores on iOS is because of privacy and security reasons, pointing to the fact that Android sees between 15 to 47 times more malware compared to its app ecosystem. The Record reports: Apple says that the reason its iOS devices are locked into the App Store as the only way to install applications is for security reasons, as this allows its security teams to scan applications for malicious content before they reach users.
Apple's report then goes on to list multiple malware campaigns targeting Android devices where the threat actors asked users to sideload malicious apps hosted on internet sites or third-party app stores. Today's 3 1-page report PDF is the second iteration of the same report, with a first version PDF being published back in June, shortly after EU authorities announced their investigation. An anonymous reader quotes a report from from Krebs on Security: A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting smarter about phishing one-time passwords OTPs needed to complete the login process.
It also shows that phishers are attempting to sign up for new Coinbase accounts by the millions as part of an effort to identify email addresses that are already associated with active accounts. Coinbase is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, with roughly 68 million users from over countries. The now-defunct phishing domain at issue -- coinbase.
And it was fairly successful, according to Alex Holden, founder of Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm Hold Security. Holden's team managed to peer inside some poorly hidden file directories associated with that phishing site, including its administration page. That panel, pictured in the redacted screenshot below, indicated the phishing attacks netted at least sets of credentials before the site was taken offline.
Holden said each time a new victim submitted credentials at the Coinbase phishing site, the administrative panel would make a loud "ding" -- presumably to alert whoever was at the keyboard on the other end of this phishing scam that they had a live one on the hook. In each case, the phishers manually would push a button that caused the phishing site to ask visitors for more information, such as the one-time password from their mobile app.
Pressing the "Send Info" button prompted visitors to supply additional personal information, including their name, date of birth, and street address. Armed with the target's mobile number, they could also click "Send verification SMS" with a text message prompting them to text back a one-time code.
Holden said the phishing group appears to have identified Italian Coinbase users by attempting to sign up new accounts under the email addresses of more than 2. His team also managed to recover the username and password data that victims submitted to the site, and virtually all of the submitted email addresses ended in ".
Rather, the bad guys understood that any attempts to sign up using an email address tied to an existing Coinbase account would fail. After doing that several million times, the phishers would then take the email addresses that failed new account signups and target them with Coinbase-themed phishing emails. Holden's data shows this phishing gang conducted hundreds of thousands of halfhearted account signup attempts daily.
For example, on Oct. The following day, they attempted to register , new Coinbase accounts. Verizon's Visible network has confirmed that some accounts were accessed without authorization.
Visible is a cell service owned and operated by Verizon that "pitches itself as a less expensive, 'all-digital' network, meaning there aren't any physical stores like you'd get with a tradtiional carrier," notes The Verge. From the report: Starting on Monday, customers on both Twitter and Reddit reported en masse that they'd been getting emails from the company about changed passwords and addresses, and that they've had difficulties contacting the company's chat support.
Visible's customer service account on Twitter seemingly hasn't addressed the issue, besides directing upset customers to its DMs.
A user marked as a Visible employee on the subreddit posted a statement on Monday afternoon, saying that a "small number" of accounts were affected, but that the company didn't believe its systems had been breached. The statement did recommend that users change their passwords, but as many commenters pointed out and as I can confirm , the password reset system currently isn't working. In a follow-up article, The Verge reports that Visible has confirmed customer reports of attackers accessing and changing user accounts.
The company said that the breaches were carried out using usernames and passwords from "outside sources," adding that it's worked to "mitigate the issue" since it became aware of it. They really want to recontract, in some sense, the real meaning of work and sort of asking themselves the question of which company do they want to work for and what job function or profession they want to pursue I think we should sort of perhaps just get grounded on what are we seeing in the expectations.
So therein lies that hybrid paradox. Interestingly enough, if you look at the other sort of confounding piece of data: odd percent of the people say they want to come into work so that they can have focus time. Fifty-odd percent also want to stay at home so that they can have focus time. So the real thing I would say is right now, it's probably best not to be overly dogmatic.
Because I don't think we have settled on the new norms What I would say is what we want to practice and what we want to evangelize is empowering every manager and every individual to start coming up with norms that work for that team, given the context of what that team is trying to get done.
In some sense, we are really saying, let's just use an organic process to build up through empowerment new norms that work for the company to be productive. To me, what I have sort of come to realize, what is the most innate in all of us is that ability to be able to put ourselves in other people's shoes and see the world the way they see it. That's empathy. That's at the heart of design thinking. When we say innovation is all about meeting unmet, unarticulated, needs of the marketplace, it's ultimately the unmet and articulated needs of people, and organizations that are made up of people.
And you need to have deep empathy. So I would say the source of all innovation is what is the most humane quality that we all have, which is empathy. Cybersecurity company Lookout said on its blog that they'd spotted the malware on Google Play "and prominent third-party stores such as the Amazon Appstore and the Samsung Galaxy Store To protect Android users, Google promptly removed the app as soon as we notified them of the malware.
A total of 19 related applications were uncovered, seven of which contain rooting functionality, including one on Play that had more than 10, downloads This is a significant discovery because widely-distributed malware with root capabilities have become rare over the past five years. As the Android ecosystem matures there are fewer exploits that affect a large number of devices, making them less useful for threat actors By using the rooting process to gain privileged access to the Android operating system, the threat actor can silently grant themselves dangerous permissions or install additional malware — steps that would normally require user interaction.
Elevated privileges also give the malware access to other apps' sensitive data, something not possible under normal circumstances AbstractEmu does not have any sophisticated zero-click remote exploit functionality used in advanced APT-style threats, it is activated simply by the user having opened the app. As the malware is disguised as functional apps, most users will likely interact with them shortly after downloading By rooting the device, the malware is able to silently modify the device in ways that would otherwise require user interaction and access data of other apps on the device.
The Tesla Oracle blog reports on a newly-released security feature "that enables Tesla owners to remotely view what's happening around their vehicles in real-time using their mobile phones Teslas built since January have this speaker installed as part of the pedestrian warning system, a requirement by the NHTSA.
In the last year's holiday software update package, Tesla introduced the Boombox feature using this external speak. Boombox lets Tesla owners add custom horn and pedestrian warning sounds to the vehicle. Tesla owners will now be able to warn potential vandals more explicitly by giving them verbal warnings from a remote location In a tweet Wednesday, Elon Musk joked the feature was also " great for practical jokes.
According to a post on the Signal blog, a federal grand jury in the Central District of California has subpoena'd Signal for a whole pile of user data , like subscriber information, financial information, transaction histories, communications, and more.
HotHardware reports: The thing is, the subpoena is moot: Signal simply doesn't have the data to provide. The company can't provide any of the data that the grand jury is asking for because, as the company itself notes, "Signal doesn't have access to your messages, your chat list, your groups, your contacts, your stickers, [or] your profile name or avatar. The announcement and, we suppose, this news post essentially amounts to an advertisement for Signal, but it's an amusing -- or possibly distressing -- anecdote nonetheless.
While Signal is secure, keep in mind that the messages still originate from your device, which means that other apps on your device like, say, your keyboard could still be leaking your data.
Lest you doubt Signal's story, the app creators have published the subpoena, suitably redacted, on their blog. Hive, a ransomware group that has hit over 30 organizations since June , now also encrypts Linux and FreeBSD using new malware variants specifically developed to target these platforms.
BleepingComputer reports: However, as Slovak internet security firm ESET discovered , Hive's new encryptors are still in development and still lack functionality. The Linux variant also proved to be quite buggy during ESET's analysis, with the encryption completely failing when the malware was executed with an explicit path.
It also comes with support for a single command line parameter -no-wipe. In contrast, Hive's Windows ransomware comes with up to 5 execution options, including killing processes and skipping disk cleaning, uninteresting files, and older files. The ransomware's Linux version also fails to trigger the encryption if executed without root privileges because it attempts to drop the ransom note on compromised devices' root file systems. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: So far this year, almost 1, schools across the country have suffered from a ransomware attack , and in some cases had classes disrupted because of it, according to tallies by Emsisoft, a cybersecurity company that specializes in tracking and investigating ransomware attacks, and another cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Brett Callow, a researcher at Emsisoft shared the list with Motherboard. It includes 73 school districts, comprising schools. Callow said that it's very likely there's some schools that are missing from the list, meaning the total number of victims is likely higher than 1, The list includes schools such as the Mesquite Independent School District in Texas , which comprises 49 different schools; the Haverhill Public Schools in Massachusetts , which comprises 16 schools; and the Visalia Unified School District in California , which comprises 41 schools.
While most ransomware attacks are not targeted there are two sectors that ransomware groups do seem to enjoy going after are healthcare and schools," Liska said. Schools pay significantly less in average ransom than most sectors when they pay, which is rare , so the ransomware groups are not going after schools for the money. An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: In December , bling vendor Signet Jewelers fixed a weakness in their Kay Jewelers and Jared websites that exposed the order information for all of their online customers.
This week, Signet subsidiary Zales. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who was browsing Zales. The reader noticed that the link for the order information she'd stumbled on included a lengthy numeric combination that -- when altered -- would produce yet another customer's order information.
When the reader failed to get an immediate response from Signet, KrebsOnSecurity contacted the company. In a written response, Signet said, "A concern was brought to our attention by an IT professional. We addressed it swiftly, and upon review we found no misuse or negative impact to any systems or customer data.
As a result, we exceed industry benchmarks on data protection maturity. We always appreciate it when consumers reach out to us with feedback, and have committed to further our efforts on data protection maturity. That would be a pretty convincing scam. Or just targeted phishing attacks. A security bug in the health app Docket exposed the private information of residents vaccinated against COVID in New Jersey and Utah, where the app received endorsements from state officials.
From a report: Docket lets residents download and carry a digital copy of their immunizations by pulling their vaccination records from their state's health authority. The digital copy has the same information as the COVID paper card, but is digitally signed by the state to prevent forgeries. Docket is one of several so-called vaccine passports in the U.
But for a time, the app allowed anyone access to the QR codes of other vaccinated users -- and all the personal and vaccine information encoded within. That included names, dates of birth and information about a person's COVID vaccination status, such as which type of vaccine they received and when. TechCrunch discovered the bug on Tuesday and immediately contacted the company.
Docket chief executive Michael Perretta said the bug was fixed at the server level a few hours later. The bug was found in how the Docket app requests the user's QR code from its servers. The user's QR code is generated on the server in the form of a SMART Health Card, a widely accepted standard for validating a person's vaccination status across the world. That QR code is tied to a user ID, which isn't visible from the app, but can be viewed by looking at its network traffic using off-the-shelf software like Burp Suite or Charles Proxy.
Iran's president said Wednesday that a cyberattack which paralyzed every gas station in the Islamic Republic was designed to get "people angry by creating disorder and disruption," as long lines still snaked around the pumps a day after the incident began.
NPR reports: Ebrahim Raisi's remarks stopped short of assigning blame for the attack, which rendered useless the government-issued electronic cards that many Iranians use to buy subsidized fuel at the pump. However, his remarks suggested that he and others in the theocracy believe anti-Iranian forces carried out the assault.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that began Tuesday, though it bore similarities to another months earlier that seemed to directly challenge Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country's economy buckles under American sanctions. Associated Press journalists saw long lines at multiple gas stations in Tehran.
One station had a line of 90 cars waiting for fuel. Those buying ended up having to pay at higher, unsubsidized prices. Tuesday's attack rendered useless the government-issued electronic cards that many Iranians use to buy subsidized fuel at the pump. The semiofficial ISNA news agency, which first called the incident a cyberattack, said it saw those trying to buy fuel with a government-issued card through the machines instead receiving a message reading "cyberattack ISNA later removed its reports, claiming that it too had been hacked.
Such claims of hacking can come quickly when Iranian outlets publish news that angers the theocracy. From a report: The attack on the Ethereum-based lending protocol was first reported by The Block Crypto, which cited a tweet by PeckShield highlighting a large flash-loan transaction that carried out the theft. The burgeoning DeFi landscape has drawn in billions of dollars in investor funds, but it has been a frequent target by hackers, with many using flash loans -- a type of uncollateralized lending -- as a way to exploit poorly protected protocols.
From a report: The organization's name was listed on a dark web portal, often called a "leak site," where the Grief gang typically lists companies they infected and which haven't paid their ransom demands. It remains unclear if the Grief gang hit one of the NRA's smaller branches or if the attack hit the organization's central network. Ransomware gangs often like to exaggerate their attacks. An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: U.
KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid is tied to reports that PAX's systems may have been involved in cyberattacks on U. Earlier today, Jacksonville, Fla.
In an official statement, investigators told WOKV only that they were executing a court-authorized search at the warehouse as a part of a federal investigation, and that the inquiry included the Department of Customs and Border Protection and the Naval Criminal Investigative Services NCIS. According to that source, the payment processor found that the PAX terminals were being used both as a malware "dropper" -- a repository for malicious files -- and as "command-and-control" locations for staging attacks and collecting information.
The source said two major financial providers -- one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom -- had already begun pulling PAX terminals from their payment infrastructure, a claim that was verified by two different sources.
The source was unable to share specific details about the strange network activity that prompted the FBI's investigation. But it should be noted that point-of-sale terminals and the technology that supports them are perennial targets of cybercriminals.
An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either. Only 3 of the roughly bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, that is, would only happen on Linux.
Koderski also says that very few of those bugs were specific to Linux, being clear that "This 5. Multiple commenters on the post chalked this up to the kind of people who use Linux: Software professionals, IT employees, and engineers who would already be familiar with official bug reporting processes.
It's a strong theory as to why this might be, though the sheer passion that the gaming on Linux community has for anyone who supports their favorite hobby may be another. Microsoft said on Monday that a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Nobelium had attacked more than IT and cloud services providers , successfully breaching 14 companies. The attacks included spear-phishing campaigns and password-spraying operations that targeted employees of companies that manage IT and cloud infrastructure on behalf of their clients.
It's estimated there are Digital nomads' growing numbers and financial clout have caused dozens of tourist-starved countries to update their travel policies for borderless workers. In Summer , a handful of nations launched visa programs to attract digital nomads, starting with Estonia in June , then Barbados, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Anguilla, Antigua, and later, most of Eastern Europe. Sweetheart deals like income tax breaks , subsidized housing , and free multiple entry have become as popular as employee work benefits.
The opportunities are so numerous, solutions exist just to help you "amenity shop" the perfect country Airbnb style Some ambitious nomads, like activist and author Lauren Razavi , have also started to advocate for their rights as global citizens and the future of borderless work Remote workers like Lauren and us want to completely redefine the role governments play in digital nomads' movement and regulation.
By laying the foundation for the next generation of travel and work, an internet country called Plumia Plumia wants to build the alternative using decentralized technologies, while also working with countries and institutions on policies that achieve common goals Begun in as an independent project by remote-first travel insurance company, SafetyWing , Plumia's plan is to combine the infrastructure for living anywhere with the functions of a geographic country Blockchain enthusiasts are also testing an approach that begs the question: are traditional countries still necessary?
Bitnation advocates for decentralizing authority by empowering voluntary participation and peer-to-peer agreements. Currently in development, Plumia is focusing on developing member-focused services and content Verifying a digital identity, maintaining a 'permanent address' whilst on the move, switching service providers and jurisdictions on the fly, complying with complicated tax and labor laws — these are all thorny issues to solve.
Initiatives like Plumia are jumping into quite an active ring, however. In addition to countries competing to serve and attract digital nomads, a number of well-financed startups such as Jobbatical, Remote, and Oyster are creating private-sector solutions to issues posed by people and companies going remote. Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender say cyber criminals have been using a rootkit named FiveSys "that somehow made its way through the driver certification process to be digitally signed by Microsoft ," reports ZDNet: The valid signature enables the rootkit — malicious software that allows cyber criminals to access and control infected computers — to appear valid and bypass operating systems restrictions and gain what researchers describe as "virtually unlimited privileges".
It's known for cyber criminals to use stolen digital certificates, but in this case, they've managed to acquire a valid one. It's a still a mystery how cyber criminals were able to get hold of a valid certificate.
While the digital signing requirements detect and stop most of the rootkits, they are not foolproof," Bogdan Botezatu, director of threat research and reporting at Bitdefender told ZDNet.
It's uncertain how FiveSys is actually distributed, but researchers believe that it's bundled with cracked software downloads. Queen Elizabeth II. So verbringt Queen Elizabeth II. Diese Promis sind wahre Retter in der Not Swyrl. Anzeige Sky. Die Kelly Family: Wer ist noch dabei - und was macht der Rest? Hamburg Bearbeiten Bleiben Sie dran!
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