Audi seeks to catch up in China in test of Germany's automotive grit

<p>Audi CEO Markus Duesmann says the automaker's transition to EVs in China is "a challenge" for the VW Group subsidiary. The shift to cleaner technologies presents more than one dilemma for Germany's largest automakers.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/china/audi-ceo-...race-china

VW sees all its Russian assets frozen by court

<p>VW is attempting to sell its Russian factory in Kaluga, south of Moscow.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/v...ocal-court

New DotRunpeX Malware Delivers Multiple Malware Families via Malicious Ads

A new piece of malware dubbed dotRunpeX is being used to distribute numerous known malware families such as Agent Tesla, Ave Maria, BitRAT, FormBook, LokiBot, NetWire, Raccoon Stealer, RedLine Stealer, Remcos, Rhadamanthys, and Vidar.
"DotRunpeX is a new injector written in .NET using the Process Hollowing technique and used to infect systems with a variety of known malware families," Check

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/new-do...tiple.html

Pompompurin Unmasked: Infamous BreachForums Mastermind Arrested in New York

U.S. law enforcement authorities have arrested a 21-year-old New York man in connection with running the infamous BreachForums hacking forum under the online alias "Pompompurin."
The development, first reported by Bloomberg Law, comes after News 12 Westchester, earlier this week, said that federal investigators "spent hours inside and outside of a home in Peekskill."
"At one point, investigators

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/pompom...amous.html

Researchers Shed Light on CatB Ransomware's Evasion Techniques

The threat actors behind the CatB ransomware operation have been observed using a technique called DLL search order hijacking to evade detection and launch the payload.
CatB, also referred to as CatB99 and Baxtoy, emerged late last year and is said to be an "evolution or direct rebrand" of another ransomware strain known as Pandora based on code-level similarities.
It's worth noting that the use

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/resear...-catb.html

New Cyber Platform Lab 1 Decodes Dark Web Data to Uncover Hidden Supply Chain Breach

This article has not been generated by ChatGPT. 
2022 was the year when inflation hit world economies, except in one corner of the global marketplace – stolen data. Ransomware payments fell by over 40% in 2022 compared to 2021. More organisations chose not to pay ransom demands, according to findings by blockchain firm Chainalysis.
Nonetheless, stolen data has value beyond a price tag, and in

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/new-cy...-dark.html

Mispadu Banking Trojan Targets Latin America: 90,000+ Credentials Stolen

A banking trojan dubbed Mispadu has been linked to multiple spam campaigns targeting countries like Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Portugal with the goal of stealing credentials and delivering other payloads.
The activity, which commenced in August 2022, is currently ongoing, Ocelot Team from Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
Mispadu (

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/mispad...latin.html

Auto supplier takes over light therapy startup out of bankruptcy

<p>Eypex, a Tier 1 supplier of magnetic fasteners for cars, came to terms with the U.S. trustee assigned to the case of JustLight, a maker of infrared light devices.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/e...-justlight

Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car

<p>Battery packs can cost tens of thousands of dollars and represent up to 50 percent of an EV's price tag, often making it uneconomical to replace them.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...entire-car

Why Security Practitioners Should Understand Their Business

The sooner CISOs become proactive in understanding the flip side of the organizations they protect, the better they'll be at their jobs.

https://www.darkreading.com/risk/why-sec...r-business