Lamborghini combats softening market with sold-out models, long wait times

<p>The exotic and ultraluxury market is softening compared with last year, according to Automobili Lamborghini America's CEO. But the Italian brand is being aided by sold-out models and long wait times.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...wait-times

Stellantis drops out of LA Auto Show, SEMA expo due to UAW strike

<p>The company had planned to reveal the North American Fiat 500e electric car in Los Angeles. It's usually a major exhibitor in the SEMA show and won numerous awards last year.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/marketing/uaw-s...-sema-expo

Hudson Automotive agrees to acquire 4 Vic Bailey dealerships in South Carolina

<p>The acquisitions will mark the first for Hudson Automotive since acquiring nine stores from Asbury Automotive in 2022</p>

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/hudson-...ealerships

Unstoppable Automotive acquires California dealerships in Monterey, Fresno

<p>Unstoppable Automotive's transactions included a dealership in Fresno, Calif., owned by the Haron family since 1945.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/unstopp...ealerships

Supplier earnings to provide early glimpse into UAW strike's financial impact

<p>Third-quarter earnings reports released by publicly traded suppliers in the coming days will provide a glimpse into how the UAW strike, slowdowns at the U.S.-Mexico border and other supply chain challenges are impacting supplier finances.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/suppliers/how-u...r-earnings

Christian Brothers consistently bests competition on customer satisfaction

<p>The chain of faith-based independent repair shops asks franchisees to be Christians and treat customers like neighbors.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/service-and-par...lers-crave

Vietnamese Hackers Target U.K., U.S., and India with DarkGate Malware

Attacks leveraging the DarkGate commodity malware targeting entities in the U.K., the U.S., and India have been linked to Vietnamese actors associated with the use of the infamous Ducktail stealer.
"The overlap of tools and campaigns is very likely due to the effects of a cybercrime marketplace," WithSecure said in a report published today. "Threat actors are able to acquire and use multiple

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/vietna...s-and.html

Malvertisers Using Google Ads to Target Users Searching for Popular Software

Details have emerged about a malvertising campaign that leverages Google Ads to direct users searching for popular software to fictitious landing pages and distribute next-stage payloads.
Malwarebytes, which discovered the activity, said it's "unique in its way to fingerprint users and distribute time sensitive payloads."
The attack singles out users searching for Notepad++ and PDF converters to

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/malver...arget.html

Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices

Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based implant on susceptible devices.
Tracked as CVE-2023-20273 (CVSS score: 7.2), the issue relates to a privilege escalation flaw in the web UI feature and is said to have been used alongside CVE-2023-20198 as part of an exploit chain.
"The attacker first

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/cisco-...plant.html

ExelaStealer: A New Low-Cost Cybercrime Weapon Emerges

A new information stealer named ExelaStealer has become the latest entrant to an already crowded landscape filled with various off-the-shelf malware designed to capture sensitive data from compromised Windows systems.
"ExelaStealer is a largely open-source infostealer with paid customizations available from the threat actor," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher James Slaughter said in a

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/exelas...crime.html