In a new campaign, tracked since June 2021, the state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attempting to plant surveillance and theft-based malware on victim machines. On Wednesday, researchers from Cisco Talos said the Kimsuky APT, also known as Thallium or Black Banshee, is responsible for the wave of attacks, in which malicious Blogspot content is being used to lure “South Korea-based think tanks whose research focuses on political, diplomatic, and military topics pertaining to North Korea, China, Russia, and the US....

Also, due to the pandemic, there has been a trend to remote work that has now evolved to many businesses having employees permanently work from home. This is fairly simple for knowledge workers, call center agents, salespeople, and others who work with software. But for data scientists, graphic designers, engineers, and others who need access to GPU-enabled systems, working remotely means no access to the systems they will need to do their jobs....

Most experts suggest using credit cards for your online purchases, especially if you’re choosing between credit and debit. While the risk of fraud is always lurking in the background, credit cards come with additional protections that debit cards simply lack. Here’s what we mean: [This article was first published on The Simple Dollar in 2020. It was updated in March 2022.] Also: The most exclusive credit cards If someone does get your credit card number and makes a purchase online, chances are good you won’t be held liable for a single cent of it if you report it in a timely manner....

Using E Ink devices for content creation is not as rare as it once was. E-reader specialist Kobo launched its Elipsa earlier this year, for example, while reMarkable is on the second version of its tablet, the reMarkable 2. Specification comparison Both tablets have a similar user interface and mode of operation, with finger sweeps and taps supported as well as stylus input. The larger Max Lumi2 has a fingerprint scanner below the screen; this is absent in the smaller Note Air2 model, although both devices can be password protected....

Red Hat is pulling this off by allying with Nvidia. Specifically, this latest OpenShift version is certified to work with NVIDIA AI Enterprise 2.0. Nvidia AI Enterprise is an AI software suite to get both experienced and new AI companies to quickly get to work on AI development and deployment. It does this by providing proven, open-sourced containers and frameworks. These are certified to run on common data center platforms from both Red Hat and VMware vSphere with Tanzu....

Market intelligence firm IDC has predicted that shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks and workstations, will reach almost 96 million units in 2021 in the EMEA region – a 13.2% increase compared to the previous year. Ultraslim notebooks will dominate the market with 44.3% of sales, says IDC, followed by traditional notebooks (26%) and traditional desktops (18.1%). SEE: The best Windows laptops in 2021 This is particularly noteworthy given that 2020 was a record year for PC sales, as consumers and employers alike snapped up new hardware to ensure that work and play could continue despite country-wide lockdowns....

Not so long ago that would have sounded like a joke, but kiosk concepts are proliferating amid a wave of investment in touch free food concepts. Basil Street, which raised $10 million last year, is turning to crowd funding to increase its distribution of Automated Pizza Kitchens. The company, which has received NSF and UL certification, plans to have about 50 APKs placed across the country by fall 2021 and aims to expand to up to 100 APKs by year end....

The researchers hope their open source PolyCoder can democratize research into the field of AI code generation, which so far is dominated by well-funded companies like Alphabet-owned DeepMind and OpenAI. “Large language models (LMs) of code have recently shown tremendous promise in completing code and synthesizing code from natural language descriptions. However, the current state-of-the-art code LMs… are not publicly available, leaving many questions about their model and data design decisions,” the researchers said....

For example, much of the web has been built on trust, with security very much an after-thought. There’s always been hacking, of course, but the difficulty of making it pay meant that, apart from state-sponsored attacks and industrial espionage, the impact was quite limited. But the rise of cryptocurrency, which enables hard-to-track payments, plus the general insecurity of many computer systems, and our total reliance on them, has created the perfect ransomware storm that now engulfs so many companies....

Before the pandemic, only 41% of developers worked at an office either full-time or part-time, but of the 12,000 surveyed in GitHub’s 2021 State of the Octoverse report, just 10.7% expect to go back to the office after the pandemic ends. Microsoft is touting hybrid as the way many people will work for the foreseeable future and that was borne out by the survey. Pre-pandemic, 28.1% of developers had hybrid arrangements but after the pandemic, 47....

On February 24, Reuters reported that notices backed by the government have appeared on online forums. Yegor Aushev, the co-founder of Cyber Unit Technologies and a figure known in Ukrainian circles for promoting the development of ethical hacking, told the news agency that he wrote the post following a request from a senior Defense Ministry official. Another individual involved in the scheme confirmed to the publication that the request was issued on Thursday morning as Russia began to invade Ukraine....

The list is made up of malware that has evolved over the past 10 years as banking trojans, remote access trojans, information stealers, and ransomware delivery tools. The agencies listed the top malware strains of last year as Agent Tesla (information stealer), AZORult (information stealer), Formbook (information stealer), Ursnif (banking Trojan), LokiBot (Trojan credential stealer), MOUSEISLAND (ransomware delivery), NanoCore (credential stealer), Qakbot (multipurpose trojan), Remcos (remote access trojan), TrickBot (multipurpose trojan/ransomware delivery), and GootLoader (multi-payload malware platform)....

The Ecovacs Deebot N8+ is an all-in-one vacuum model designed to save you time on your household chores. With our increasingly busy lives, the time spent on chores quickly adds up – but this device can at least take cleaning the floor off your to-do list. The robot vacuum comes with 2300Pa suction for dirt and dust, alongside a mop, self-emptying station, and mapping functionality. You can expect up to 110 minutes of cleaning time per charge....

The new Work.com products focus on two areas – employee growth and well-being, as well as employee service tools. The products were designed to meet the quickly changing needs of organizations adapting to the post-pandemic world, Jodi Innerfield, director of product marketing for Salesforce, told ZDNet. Those needs, she said, “went from reopening the office to work from anywhere – from work from home to this hybrid working world. And what we’re hearing is that the technology that our customers used for employee experience, when everybody was in an office, just isn’t cutting it anymore....

The move suggests an interesting new chapter for Walmart Inc, owner of Sam’s Club. One of the biggest robotics stories of the last few years came when Walmart killed a 500 store deployment of shelf-scanning robots developed by automation firm Bossa Nova, which marked the end of the technology’s highest-profile test case to date. In the wake of the cancelled contract, developers of inventory scanning robots scrambled to differentiate their technology and prove that the fate of one company’s contract meant little to the technology’s long-term prospects....

Not only do I have some of my favorite tips rounded up below, but I’m currently reviewing the earbuds on an ongoing basis. Early impressions are positive, thanks in part to the Buds 2 Pro being some of the most comfortable wireless earbuds I’ve ever used. The Buds 2 Pro have plenty of features to earn their Pro name. Below I’ll walk you through eight different features, settings, and tips that I hope you’ll enjoy making use of as much as I do....

Specifications You should upgrade if… 1. You want a longer-lasting battery Perhaps the biggest difference between the Z Flip 3 and Z Flip 4 is the latter’s bigger, more efficient battery. With the Flip 4’s battery capacity of 3,700mAh (versus the Z Flip 3’s 3,300mAh), Samsung says the Z Flip 4 should last 3 hours longer. It also charges faster, with Super Fast Charging capable of juicing up to 50% in about 30 minutes....

The South Korean tech giant said on Thursday that it posted 63.67 trillion won in sales and 12.57 trillion won in operating income. Sales and operating income jumped 20% and 54%, respectively, from the previous year. It is Samsung’s best quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2018. The company’s semiconductor business contributed 6.93 trillion won in operating income, over half the total figure. Market conditions improved in the memory market, which led to stronger-than-expected increase in average sales prices for both DRAM and NAND chips, Samsung said....

In the fourth quarter alone, the company recorded revenue of 76.6 trillion won and operating profit of 13.9 trillion won, an increase of 24% and 53.3%, respectively, from the same time period in 2020. Samsung said the fourth-quarter revenue growth was driven by expanded sales of its premium smartphones and consumer electronic products. Its operating profit also increased from the performance of its chip business, though there was a special bonus payment to employees during the quarter, the South Korean tech giant said....

The device has a 6.5-inch FHD AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. There are four rear-facing cameras, including a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, a 64-megapixel main camera, a 5-megapixel depth camera, and a 5-megapixel macro camera. On the front is a 32-megapixel camera for taking selfies and video calling. Inside the A53 5G is 6GB of memory, 128GB of storage, with microSD card support for up to 1TB of additional storage....