Author Archives: Onsite Computing, Inc.

Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots

North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for collecting over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music using AI-generated songs streamed by thousands of bots in a massive streaming fraud scheme. […] Go to Source Author: Sergiu Gatlan

Chinese-Speaking Hacker Group Targets Human Rights Studies in Middle East

Unnamed government entities in the Middle East and Malaysia are the target of a persistent cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as Tropic Trooper since June 2023. “Sighting this group’s [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] in critical governmental entities in the Middle East, particularly those related to human rights studies, marks a new strategic […]

Veeam Releases Security Updates to Fix 18 Flaws, Including 5 Critical Issues

Veeam has shipped security updates to address a total of 18 security flaws impacting its software products, including five critical vulnerabilities that could result in remote code execution. The list of shortcomings is below – CVE-2024-40711 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. CVE-2024-42024 (CVSS […]

CISO budget survey: Modest increases in 2024

Security budgets are either flat or increasing modestly compared to 2023, due to global economic and geopolitical uncertainty, according to a new survey of CISOs. One result is slower staff hiring. Those are the main conclusions of the annual security budget report released on Thursday by IANS Research and executive recruiting firm Artico Search. Nearly […]

White House brands BGP routing a ‘national security concern’ as it unveils reform roadmap

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has published its roadmap for fixing increasingly troublesome security weaknesses in the Internet’s core routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is infamously prone to configuration errors that can have consequences serious enough to temporarily disrupt parts of the Internet. It’s also the target of attacks […]

Palo Alto closes IBM QRadar SaaS buy, extends security partnership

Palo Alto Networks has closed the deal to acquire IBM’s QRadar software-as-a-service security intelligence platform. Now that the deal is complete, existing QRadar customers will be moved, for no charge, to Palo Alto’s Cortex Extended Security Intelligence and Automation (XSIAM) platform, which is the vendor’s core extended detection and response (XDR) platform. IBM is a preferred Palo Alto partner […]

U.S. Seizes 32 Pro-Russian Propaganda Domains in Major Disinformation Crackdown

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 32 internet domains used by a pro-Russian propaganda operation called Doppelganger as part of a sweeping set of actions. Accusing the Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaign of violating U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws, the agency called out companies Social Design […]

NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and CTEM – Better Together

It’s been a decade since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) introduced its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 1.0. Created following a 2013 Executive Order, NIST was tasked with designing a voluntary cybersecurity framework that would help organizations manage cyber risk, providing guidance based on established standards and best practices. While this version was originally […]

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