In one of the strangest launches we’ve seen in a while, Slate Auto, the reportedly Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup, unveiled its first EV, the Slate Truck. Notably, the vehicle is capable of a claimed 150 miles (241 km) of range at a starting price of less than $20,000, assuming federal clean vehicle tax credits … Read more
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May of last year, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for … Read more
Attackers are making use of Windows shortcut (.lnk) files to dupe users into running malicious code on their systems.Researchers with Trend Micro’s Zerdo Day Initiative (ZDI) said that threat actors around the globe have been taking advantage of the Windows shell link shortcut format to execute malicious code on target machines.Dubbed ZDI-CAN-25373 (more on this … Read more
TL;DR: While codes last, you can get a Microsoft Office lifetime license for Mac at $39.99 (reg. $229). Windows codes are also available. Every month, Microsoft 365 takes a little more from your bank account. It’s only $10, but that number gets ugly over time. Now imagine paying just $40 once and being done with … Read more
Feb 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage Threat hunters have shed light on a new campaign targeting the foreign ministry of an unnamed South American nation with bespoke malware capable of granting remote access to infected hosts. The activity, detected in November 2024, has been attributed by Elastic Security Labs to a threat cluster it … Read more