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Hackers breach ISP to poison software updates with malware
A Chinese hacking group tracked as StormBamboo has compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) to poison automatic software updates with malware. Also tracked as Evasive Panda, Daggerfly, and StormCloud, this cyber-espionage group has been active since at least 2012, targeting organizations across mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Nigeria, and various Southeast and East Asian countries. On […]
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads’ MTLink fabric tech challenges Nvidia’s NVLink, can now scale to 10,000 GPUs for AI clusters
More GPUs, more performance. One of Nvidia’s advantages in the data center space is that it not only offers leading-edge GPUs for AI and HPC computing but can also effectively scale the number of its processors across a data center using its own hardware and software. How could you defeat Nvidia if your GPUs are […]
Cisco Patches Zero-Day Bug Used by Chinese Velvet Ant Group
A newly patched zero-day vulnerability was exploited by Chinese state-backed hackers to compromise Cisco Nexus switches, researchers have revealed. Cisco released a patch for CVE-2024-20399 on 2 July, 2024. The flaw is found in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS software and could allow an authenticated local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on a […]