The BlackByte ransomware gang is exploiting more orgs than previously known
Finally in April 2022, the group launched a massive attack that crippled 27 Costa Rican government agencies causing disruptions to the country’s social networks and […]
Month: August 2024
Brad Setser on China’s True Trade Balance
Brad Setser has been actively scrutinizing China’s foreign accounts. For purposes of thinking about how policy makers try to capture aggregate demand across borders, the […]
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A tool used by ransomware groups now appears to kill EDR: Report
Poverty/BurntCigar, first discovered by Mandiant, is a malicious kernel driver used in conjunction with a bootloader called Stonestop that attempts to bypass Microsoft Driver Signature […]
Moral Equality and Emergent Behavior
This is the second of my two posts on Matt Zwolinski’s critique of the moral equivalence thesis, looking at the second (and to me, more […]
Wednesday separate links
1. Can we inherit our way to higher interest? Maybe not. 2. Paul Romer provides you with technical support. 3. Alexander Kobrin’s volume of one […]
EJ Antoni on the current recession
From EJ Antoni (Heritage), the article “The next recession may already be here” at Boston Herald (8/21): “…a growing number of indicators suggest that a […]
Global Poverty is Growing Richer and Richer Faster
Yves here. Another sobering update from Oxfam about the widening chasm between the squillionaire overclass and the poor. As the famous salesman David Einhorn used […]
Cisco snaps up AI Robust Intelligence security player
The combination will also strengthen the threat protection of AI applications and models: “This includes reducing risks such as rapid injection, data poisoning, jailbreaks, and […]
A critical plugin flaw opens up more than a million WordPress sites to RCE attacks
RCE with Twig SSTI Twig server-side template injection (SSTI) is a type of security vulnerability that occurs when user input is mishandled and injected directly […]