DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan

The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which disclosed the findings in its APT trends report Q3 2023, said the attack chains are also configured to deliver a downloader named CSVtyrei, so named for its resemblance to Vtyrei.
"Some

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Who's Experimenting with AI Tools in Your Organization?

With the record-setting growth of consumer-focused AI productivity tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence—formerly the realm of data science and engineering teams—has become a resource available to every employee. 
From a productivity perspective, that’s fantastic. Unfortunately for IT and security teams, it also means you may have hundreds of people in your organization using a new tool in

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/whos-e...ls-in.html

[b]Spanish Oak 3.0L Duratec Missing Knock retard parameter?[/b]

I'm currently working on tuning a 2006 Ford Freestyle and increasing spark advance ever so slightly, but I haven't really been able to push it as I...


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[b]need help: Coyote Gen3 Crate motor - new install - bank 2 shutting down, not firing[/b]

Having a bugger of a time with my Coyote Gen 3 crate engine (M-6007-M50C) with the Ford Performance M-6017-M50B Control Pack in my Factory Five Cobra...


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Cisco Finds New Zero-Day Bug, Pledges Patches in Days

A patch for the max-severity zero-day bug tracked as CVE-2023-20198 is coming soon, but the bug has already led to the compromise of tens of thousands of Cisco devices. And now, there's a new unpatched threat.

https://www.darkreading.com/application-...es-in-days

Critical SolarWinds RCE Bugs Enable Unauthorized Network Takeover

SolarWinds' access controls contain five high-severity and three critical-severity security vulnerabilities that need to be patched yesterday.

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...k-takeover

Telling Small Businesses to Buy Cyber Insurance Isn't Enough

To protect themselves from threats, companies also need proactive cybersecurity.

https://www.darkreading.com/risk/telling...snt-enough

Patch Now: APTs Continue to Pummel WinRAR Bug

State-sponsored cyber-espionage actors from Russia and China continue to target WinRAR users with various info-stealing and backdoor malware, as a patching lag plagues the software's footprint.

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-brea...winrar-bug

Cisco Discloses Multiple Zero-Days Under Attack In IOS XE Devices

With a few days gap, Cisco disclosed active exploitation detections for separate zero-days affecting its…

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Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses


Google is getting ready to test a new "IP Protection" feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy by masking their IP addresses using proxy servers. [...]


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