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fromFast Company
1 week agoIs command-and-control leadership back in fashion?
Command-and-control leadership is resurging due to its effectiveness in volatile environments, offering decisiveness and clarity during crises.
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fromThe Hacker News
1 month agoInvestigating a New Click-Fix Variant
Atos Researchers identified a new variant of the popular ClickFix technique, where attackers convince the user to execute a malicious command on their own device through the Win + R shortcut. In this variation, a "net use" command is used to map a network drive from an external server, after which a ".cmd" batch file hosted on that drive is executed.
Information security
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fromTechzine Global
5 months agoMicrosoft discovers backdoor that exploits OpenAI API
SesameOp is a persistent, espionage-focused backdoor that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API for covert command-and-control while leveraging Visual Studio compromises and .NET AppDomainManager injection.
fromArs Technica
6 months agoCalifornia startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime
"All of the pieces that are required to make it viable exist." Defense contractors are in full sales mode to win a piece of a potentially trillion-dollar pie for development of the Trump administration's proposed Golden Dome missile shield. CEOs are touting their companies' ability to rapidly spool up satellite, sensor, and rocket production. Publicly, they all agree with the assertion of Pentagon officials that US industry already possesses the technologies required to make a homeland missile defense system work.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
6 months agoThis Movie Makes Nuclear War Feel Disturbingly Possible
In Kathryn Bigelow's new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking. The film's fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes and very little information to decide whether or not to retaliate against a nuclear missile, launched at the United States, from an unknown source. The story is, of course, fiction, but as with Bigelow's other war movies, it feels disturbingly plausible.
Film
fromThe Hacker News
6 months agoResearchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America and East Asia in June, using never-before-seen malware families tracked as Neursite and NeuralExecutor. It also described the operation as exhibiting a high level of sophistication, with the threat actors leveraging already compromised internal servers as an intermediate command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to fly under the radar.
Information security
Information security
fromTechzine Global
7 months agomacOS also contains backdoors: how the 'ChillyHell' malware works
ChillyHell is stealthy macOS malware that persists via LaunchAgent/LaunchDaemon, removes forensic artifacts, sleeps intermittently, and uses modular C2-driven capabilities to exfiltrate data.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months agoA House of Dynamite review Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback
Kathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It's the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire a way of not staring into the sun to remember Kubrick's (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet's deadly serious Fail Safe.
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