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Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Hits Brazil as Smishing Scams Surge in Pakistan
Pakistan has become the latest target of a threat actor called the Smishing Triad, marking the first expansion of its footprint beyond the E.U., Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and the U.S. “The group’s latest tactic involves sending malicious messages on behalf of Pakistan Post to customers of mobile carriers via iMessage and SMS,” Resecurity said…
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Pakistani Hackers Use DISGOMOJI Malware in Indian Government Cyber Attacks
A suspected Pakistan-based threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian government entities in 2024. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0137, noting the adversary’s exclusive use of a malware called DISGOMOJI that’s written in Golang and is designed to infect Linux systems. “It is a modified…
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Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns
Meta on Friday said it’s delaying its efforts to train the company’s large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The company expressed disappointment at having to put its AI plans on pause, stating…
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Downtown Portland office complex faces loan default
Owners of Park Square acquired the then-full building in 2019 for $96.5M.
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Fresh off Westside Pitch win, startup inks big partnership
In April, Stiira landed $50,000 from the Westside Pitch competition. In June, the startup inked an integration deal with HR company Isolved to add their leave management tool to the bigger company’s platform.
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Providence accuses nurses union of interfering with care as historic strike approaches
In a statement Friday, Providence said nurses were trying to “wrest control of Oregon’s entire health care system.”
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Inside The List: State’s publicly traded companies grew revenue but many have been cutting jobs
In fiscal year 2023, 34 publicly traded companies in Oregon and S.W. Washington grew revenue by 8.7% to 108 billion, but nearly half of them had net losses. As such, their overall net income fell by 19.3%, to 6.1 billion. In examining the PBJ’s Public Companies List, it’s also worth pointing out that 80% of…
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NW Natural water unit acquires Portland company, gains president in the process
Puttman Infrastructure will bring NW Natural Water 4,200 new customers, with another 19,000 expected.
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Learn to Secure Petabyte-Scale Data in a Webinar with Industry Titans
Data is growing faster than ever. Remember when petabytes (that’s 1,000,000 gigabytes!) were only for tech giants? Well, that’s so last decade! Today, businesses of all sizes are swimming in petabytes. But this isn’t just about storage anymore. This data is ALIVE—it’s constantly accessed, analyzed, shared, and even used to train the next wave of…
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Google’s Privacy Sandbox Accused of User Tracking by Austrian Non-Profit
Google’s plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users. “While the so-called ‘Privacy Sandbox’ is advertised as an improvement over extremely invasive third-party tracking, the…
