The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three North Korean nationals and a company for supporting fraudulent IT worker schemes that generated illicit revenue for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) government. [...]

Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old woman from Arizona, was sentenced to 102 months in prison after pleading guilty to her involvement in a scheme that enabled North Korean IT workers to infiltrate 309 U.S. companies. [...]

Microsoft has removed a compatibility hold that prevented some Easy Anti-Cheat users from installing the Windows 11 2024 Update because of a known issue that triggers restarts with blue screen of death (BSOD) errors. [...]

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. [...]

ChatGPT Agent is now rolling out to users with $20 Plus subscription, but OpenAI warns that it will take a few days for the rollout to finish. [...]

A new Linux malware named Koske may have been developed with artificial intelligence and is using seemingly benign JPEG images of panda bears to deploy malware directly into system memory. [...]

A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title. [...]

Mitel Networks has released security updates to patch a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability impacting its MiVoice MX-ONE enterprise communications platform. [...]

Hackers compromised Toptal's GitHub organization account and used their access to publish ten malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (NPM) index. [...]

SonicWall urges customers to patch SMA 100 series appliances against a critical authenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability that can let attackers gain remote code execution. [...]

A China-based hacking group is deploying Warlock ransomware on Microsoft SharePoint servers vulnerable to widespread attacks targeting the recently patched ToolShell zero-day exploit chain. [...]

Brave Software says its privacy-focused browser will block Microsoft's Windows Recall from capturing screenshots of Brave windows by default to protect users' privacy. [...]

Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their prompts for training. [...]

Clorox is suing IT giant Cognizant for gross negligence, alleging it enabled a massive August 2023 cyberattack by resetting an employee's password for a hacker without first verifying their identity. [...]

OpenAI is rolling out a new "personality" feature on the ChatGPT web app. This allows you to choose between multiple personalities, such as "Robot." [...]

The popular NPM package 'is' has been compromised in a supply chain attack that injected backdoor malware, giving attackers full access to compromised devices. [...]

Unknown threat actors have breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. [...]

OpenAI is testing a new 'Study together' feature, and today, a new announcement within the ChatGPT web app confirms it. [...]

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