Microsoft has announced it is making its controversial Recall feature, announced alongside its new Copilot+ PCs last month, something you will have to opt-in to use.
The feature, which will screenshot everything you do on your computer, is something privacy advocates and security experts have warned could be a “disaster” for cybersecurity. Microsoft had originally planned to turn Recall on by default, but now the company says users will need to “proactively choose to turn it on.” @theverge has more.
The Cyber Partisans say they hacked the Belarusian State University.
The group claims it obtained documents and audio records from the university's internal network showing how its leadership dismissed staff and students who participated in anti-government protests.
The files show that the university declined to admit new students who participated in protests and left comments online against the dictatorship.
Last year, CrowdStrike published a report on a new crypto-mining operation that was targeting exposed Kubernetes systems with a miner for the Dero cryptocurrency token.
Stylized 3D illustration for an early-2000s article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about a mobile phone virus. This was before smartphones were introduced. 🙂
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Analyst1 has published a report that looks at the history of a ransomware operation named RansomHouse.
Researchers say the platform has been used by threat actors with links to ransomware gangs such as White Rabbit, Mario ESXi, RagnarLocker, and Dark Angels (Dunghill Leak).