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PacifiCorp faces new ‘mass complaint’ totaling $3B in Oregon wildfire case
It follows on the heels of a filing last month that listed 1,000 plaintiffs seeking a total of $30 billion.
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Gregory Gourdet’s Kann bar Sousòl adds a happy hour
One of the city’s hottest bars has added its first happy hour program. Sousòl, the libation section of Gregory Gourdet’s highly regarded Kann restaurant, now has a happy hour Wednesday through Saturday and 9 p.m. until closing. The spot is billed as a “pan-Caribbean, subterranean cocktail bar.” Much of the menu is informed by Gourdet’s…
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Oregon alcohol tax task force meeting draws heated debate
The Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services heard from industry reps on Thursday.
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Kinsing Hacker Group Exploits More Flaws to Expand Botnet for Cryptojacking
The cryptojacking group known as Kinsing has demonstrated its ability to continuously evolve and adapt, proving to be a persistent threat by swiftly integrating newly disclosed vulnerabilities to exploit arsenal and expand its botnet. The findings come from cloud security firm Aqua, which described the threat actor as actively orchestrating illicit cryptocurrency mining
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New XM Cyber Research: 80% of Exposures from Misconfigurations, Less Than 1% from CVEs
A new report from XM Cyber has found – among other insights – a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management in 2024, is based on hundreds of thousands of attack path assessments conducted by…
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China-Linked Hackers Adopt Two-Stage Infection Tactic to Deploy Deuterbear RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a remote access trojan (RAT) known as Deuterbear used by the China-linked BlackTech hacking group as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the Asia-Pacific region this year. “Deuterbear, while similar to Waterbear in many ways, shows advancements in capabilities such as including support for shellcode plugins, avoiding handshakes
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Kimsuky APT Deploying Linux Backdoor Gomir in South Korean Cyber Attacks
The Kimsuky (aka Springtail) advanced persistent threat (APT) group, which is linked to North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), has been observed deploying a Linux version of its GoBear backdoor as part of a campaign targeting South Korean organizations. The backdoor, codenamed Gomir, is “structurally almost identical to GoBear, with extensive sharing of code between
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited D-Link Router Vulnerabilities – Patch Now
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting D-Link routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2014-100005 – A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability impacting D-Link DIR-600 routers that allows an
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Google Patches Yet Another Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google has rolled out fixes to address a set of nine security issues in its Chrome browser, including a new zero-day that has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-4947, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported by Kaspersky researchers Vasily Berdnikov and Boris
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NW Natural, facing ‘electrify everything’ headwind, embraces Bill Gates-backed tech
In a first, small amounts of clean-burning hydrogen are flowing into the NW Natural distribution system.
