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**Why is this Intel CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in certain processor models offered by Intel. The mitigation for this vulnerability requires a firmware update, and a corresponding Windows updates enables the mitigation. This CVE is being documented in the Security Update Guide to announce that the latest builds of Windows enable the mitigation and are not vulnerable to the issue when paired with the firmware update. Please see the following for more information: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/softwaresecurity-guidance/advisory-guidance/register-file-data-sampling.html

Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.

Information newly made available under California law has shed light on data broker practices, including exactly what categories of information they trade in.

The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. The bold mass extortion attempt comes just days after Incognito Market administrators reportedly pulled an "exit scam" that left users unable to withdraw millions of dollars worth of funds from the platform.

Backdoor.Win32.Beastdoor.oq malware suffers from a remote command execution vulnerability.

By Deeba Ahmed Midnight Blizzard (aka Cozy Bear and APT29) originally breached Microsoft on January 12, 2024. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Midnight Blizzard Hackers Breached Microsoft Source Code

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Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help.

By Waqas The teasure trove of highly sentisive data is being sold for just $3,000 in Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Claims Breaching US Federal Contractor Acuity, Selling ICE, USCIS Data