CrystalRAT, which first appeared in January, operates on a tiered subscription model and shares significant similarities with the WebRAT (Salat Stealer) malware, according to Kaspersky researchers.
StateScoop reports that the majority of Americans seek more control over data sharing across the U.S. government as the federal government continues to demand more personal information from state governments.
Cisco was reported to have had its source code stolen by threat actors following an attack linked to the recent supply chain attack against Aqua Security's Trivy vulnerability scanner, according to BleepingComputer.
Proton Meet utilizes the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol for end-to-end encryption, ensuring that all media and chat are encrypted client-side.
The incident at Mercor is believed to stem from malicious code injected into the LiteLLM project, an open-source tool used by numerous companies to manage AI model interactions.
A paper published by Google indicates that a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency, a significantly lower threshold than previously believed, according to a recent report by Silicon Angle.
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