The new variant of Ursnif malware – also known as Gozi – has been detailed by researchers at security company Mandiant, who suggest it has been purposefully built to power ransomware and data-theft attacks. Designed to steal bank details, the first incarnation of malware appeared in 2006, and has caused tens of millions of dollars in losses, with the FBI describing it as “one of the most financially destructive computer viruses in history”....

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs threat intelligence unit report that ZuoRAT is part of a highly targeted, sophisticated campaign that has been targeting workers across North America and Europe for nearly two years, beginning in October 2020. “The tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that analysts observed are highly sophisticated and bear the markings of what is likely a nation-state threat actor,” Lumen said. SEE: Ransomware attacks: This is the data that cyber criminals really want to steal Lumen explains that, when the pandemic sent workers home in March 2020, threat actors were given a fresh opportunity to target SOHO routers – or edge network devices – that are rarely monitored or patched by corporate network admins and which fall outside traditional network perimeters....

As documented by Malwarebytes, the scheme’s operators are sending out messages claiming to be from the UK government, offering a free visa and other benefits to individuals willing to move to the country. SEE: Google: Half of zero-day exploits linked to poor software fixes The scam begins with messages sent to numbers via the WhatsApp mobile-messaging platform. Recipients are told that the UK needs over 132,000 additional workers in 2022, and so the government is running a recruitment drive, with over 186,000 vacant job spots available....

I don’t blame you. And given that you have to go back to Apple to get that display fixed at the risk of losing a lot of features, protecting your iPhone from damage should be a priority. Here are my top three accessories to keep your phone looking like new for longer. Also: The best iPhone accessories of 2021 But I hate applying screen protectors. This is why I’ve been on the lookout for screen protectors that are easy to apply, and that’s where the Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector comes in....

Chrome 102 for the desktop includes 32 security fixes reported to Google by external researchers. There’s one critical flaw, while eight are high severity, nine are medium severity, and seven are low severity. Google also creates other fixes for issues found through internal testing. Google says in a blogpost this release will be rolled out in the coming days. The critical flaw, labelled as CVE-2022-1853, is a ‘use after free in IndexedDB’, an interface for applications to store data in a user’s browser....

Surely they should have known better, some say. In reality, it’s not that simple. People fall for these scams for the same reasons that they fall prey to cold-call scam texts claiming that their loved one is in hospital and fees urgently need to be paid: When emotions are involved, rational thinking can go out of the window. Simon Leviev, born Shimon Hayut, is an Israeli man accused of conning women in an elaborate pyramid scheme to fund his luxury lifestyle....

Panasonic has a 25-year history of producing rugged tablets and laptops, and ZDNet has evaluated many of them: we reviewed the G1 back in 2013, when it was called the Toughpad FZ-G1 and ran Windows 8 Pro, for example, and looked at the Toughbook CF-20 in 2016. The Toughbook G2 offers an enterprise-grade platform based on a 10th-generation Intel Core i5-10310U vPro processor with 16GB or 32GB of RAM 512GB or 1TB of MVMe SSD storage....

I do remember, back in the early 2000s, that finding sufficient apps on Linux was a bit of a challenge. Sure, there were some equivalents, but they were so early on in development that they sometimes couldn’t help me get to where I needed to be without considerable work. Consider this: I worked in an organization that was pretty much all MS Office. In fact, I was the only person there who was not using MS Office....

The site’s Tips feature was introduced early in 2021, and has been available to all users 18 years of age or older since 2022. It allows a fan to click on the Tips icon within a user’s profile to send them funds in the amount of their choosing. Twitter calls the option a way for users to “show support, show appreciation, help out or reward anyone you want – from emerging creators and journalists to Twitter Spaces hosts and more....

Elon Musk has revealed that the old blue checkmarks for notable Twitter accounts will start to disappear on April 1. Then, on April 15, only new Blue paid-for accounts’ tweets will appear in Twitter users’ For You feeds and be allowed to vote in polls, according to a tweet from Musk. Last fall, in a Twitter Spaces event, Musk said that Blue verified account tweets will appear higher in users’ main feeds while tweets from unverified accounts would be relegated to the “probable spam folder....

On February 26, CERT-UA said it continues to track the movements of UNC1151/Ghostwriter, which is currently attacking targets in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia. Ghostwriter is believed to be of Belarusian origin. According to the security agency, its members are officers of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant has been tracking campaigns supported by UNC1151. In particular, the company says that “technical support” is provided to Ghostwriter campaigns and the Belarus government has been accused of being at least “partially responsible” for the activities of these cyberattackers....

If you spend any time considering you’re in a vast metal tube 36,000 feet in the air, you won’t sit back and relax. If you spend any time thinking about whether the plane was correctly maintained, you can’t be peaceful. And if you wonder about where the pilots were the previous night, your nerves might quake a touch. You get on a plane and you trust that everything will be alright....

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google. He contributes to global policy development and the continued spread of the internet. Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the internet,” Mr. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the internet. Mr. Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000 to 2007 and has been a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998....

The walls between tech teams and end-user customers have disappeared altogether at some mainstream companies. This certainly has been the case at McCarthy Holdings, a commercial construction company. For McCarthy, the ultimate customers are the final occupants of the buildings under construction, says Justin McFarland, executive vice president of information systems at McCarthy. “Our job is to help construction partners work alongside new technologies.” The company’s technology teams work right alongside its project managers to deliver....

You go to a McDonald’s and do something a little bit different. No, you don’t go through the drive-thru and complain it’s taking too long. Instead, you choose to go back in time a little, order at the counter, and sit down in a pleasantly plastic booth, on pleasantly plastic chairs. You look around and bathe in the brightness of it all. You reminisce about times spent in McDonald’s, years before....

That’s why methodologies and certification programs such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) came about, providing IT teams a proven and standardized roadmap for delivering applications and functions as reliable services. However, with the growing use of outside cloud services, ITIL – designed during on-premises times – may be stretched beyond its limits. The proliferation of cloud means more complications when it comes to running things smooth and service-like, according to a new report out of Constellation Research....

Developer relations is an interesting role in that it somewhat straddles the product, engineering and marketing units within an organization. Chiefly, the purpose of developer relations is to promote a company’s software tool to the wider developer community and figure out exactly what developers need from said tool in order to make it work from them. This feedback is then taken back to other teams within the organization so any issues and improvements can be made....

Industry professionals test and upgrade software and computer systems. Software developers code new programs, too. They may also monitor systems and solve end-user problems. What is software engineering? Software engineering involves developing, deploying, testing, and maintaining software. Each program must match the client’s accessibility and technical requirements. Software engineering involves the principles, tools, and techniques used to develop professional software. Applications go through a development and evolution process guided by software engineers....

“We will definitely fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to withdraw from this station after 2024 has been made,” said Borisov. However, NASA has not been officially notified of any Russian plans to withdraw from the ISS, according to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “NASA is committed to the safe operation of the International Space Station through 2030, and is coordinating with our partners. NASA has not been made aware of decisions from any of the partners, though we are continuing to build future capabilities to assure our major presence in low-Earth orbit,” Nelson said in a statement provided to ZDNet....

Also: Ditching Twitter? How to get started with Mastodon Why? Simple. You can’t lay off half of the staff of a cloud-based social network and expect things to keep running smoothly for Twitter’s 450 million monthly active users. Indeed, Twitter accounts are already failing in odd ways. For example, Benjamin Dreyer, author of “Dreyer’s English” and copy chief of Random House, found that the vast majority of replies to one of his tweets were vanishing into the aether....