Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant, dubbed “Murdoc_Botnet,” was first detected in July and has already been found to have affected at least 1,300 devices globally, especially in Malaysia, Thailand, Mexico and Indonesia. Like ...

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is reportedly set to meet with U.S. government officials in Washington D.C. on Jan. 30 for a closed-door briefing on new technology, possibly “Ph.D.-level super-agents” that do complex human tasks. The latest claim comes from Axios, though details of the same meeting were reportedly shared a week ago with readers of ...

TikTok services were being restored to users in the U.S. Sunday afternoon following a promise from President-elect Trump after the service went dark Saturday. The Chinese-owned social media service had been late Saturday following the implementation of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The ban, which extended to all apps owned by TikTok’s ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered well-known web hosting provider GoDaddy Inc. to implement a robust information security program to settle charges that the company failed to secure its website-hosting service against attacks that could harm its customers. In a complaint filed Wednesday, the FTC alleged that since 2018, GoDaddy has failed to implement ...

Social trading and investment marketplace company eToro Group Ltd. has reportedly filed a confidential application with U.S. regulators ahead of a potential initial public offering later this year. First reported today by the Financial Times, the IPO could value the business at more than $5 billion. The confidential nature of the filing — typical in the ...

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden signed a cybersecurity-related executive order today that’s aimed at strengthening national cybersecurity and making it easier to pursue foreign adversaries and hacking groups that try to undermine U.S. systems. The “Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity” covers a range of initiatives designed to address the ...

A new study released today by data protection startup Harmonic Security Inc. has found that nearly one in 10 prompts used by business users when using artificial intelligence disclose potentially sensitive data. The finding came from a study of business users undertaken in the fourth quarter of 2024 across generative artificial tools, including Microsoft Copilot, ...

Application security startup Contrast Security Inc. today announced the release of Application Vulnerability Monitoring, a new application detection and response capability that catches vulnerabilities in products before an attack. Said to be the first solution of its kind that works within applications to find application and application programming interface vulnerabilities in products, AVM correlates vulnerabilities with known ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced the launch of Cisco AI Defense, a new solution that safeguards artificial intelligence projects in enterprises against the misuse of AI tools, data leakage and sophisticated threats. The new service has been designed to address new safety concerns and security threats that are emerging that existing solutions are unable or ...

Cloud cybersecurity startup Orca Security Ltd. today announced the launch of Orca Sensor, a lightweight security solution that integrates runtime visibility and protection with the Orca Cloud Security Platform. Orca Sensor has been designed as a non-intrusive extended Berkeley Packet Filter-based sensor that provides runtime visibility and protection natively integrated with the Orca Cloud Security Platform. The sensor ...