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Dynatrace is accelerating the generational shift in enterprise software development by extending the Dynatrace platform with agentic AI capabilities. Designed to predict and prevent disruptions, protect systems and data, and optimize operations autonomously, these advancements mark a new era of productivity and agility, fundamentally redefining how businesses manage digital transformation. Enterprise organizations are significantly increasing investment in AI to enhance productivity, particularly in software development. Despite these efforts, developers still spend up to 80% of their time securing, debugging, and optimizing digital systems in production. Dynatrace leverages agentic AI to address this challenge by enabling enterprises to transition from manual…

Institutional investors cut Bitcoin (BTC) allocations in US-based spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during the first quarter after hedging profits waned and futures premiums compressed, a June 5 CoinShares report showed.The report assessed 13-F filings from asset managers with at least $100 million in assets under management. These investors reported $21.2 billion in Bitcoin ETF exposure as of March 31, down from $27.4 billion registered in last year’s fourth quarter.Pullback in ETF exposureThe 23% pullback outpaced the 12% slide in the overall ETF market’s assets under management and came as Bitcoin dropped 11% over the period. CoinShares tied most of the reduction…

Kent Ickler // ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. A robot wearing boots… with straps…. Have you been tasked with automation in the Command and Control (C2) world? If so your goal is to shorten the overhead time on repetitive tasks related to procuring a valid control channel. This wasn’t my first rodeo in mundane automation and finding…

Image: Mark Rademaker, via Shutterstock. Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of shadowy proxy and anonymity services that are nested at some of America’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs). The findings come in a report that examines how the Russian invasion has affected Ukraine’s domestic supply of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses. Researchers at Kentik, a company that measures the performance of Internet networks,…

Meta has released an open source AI tool called Automated Sensitive Document Classification. It was originally built for internal use and is designed to find sensitive information in documents and apply security labels automatically. The tool uses customizable classification rules and works with files that contain readable text. Once labeled, the documents can be protected from unauthorized access or excluded from AI systems that use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The solution uses Apache Tika to pull text from Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It then uses Llama to spot sensitive content and works with the Google Drive API to apply sensitivity…

machine learning algorithms can’t handle categorical variables. But decision trees (DTs) can. Classification trees don’t require a numerical target either. Below is an illustration of a tree that classifies a subset of Cyrillic letters into vowels and consonants. It uses no numeric features — yet it exists. Many also promote mean target encoding (MTE) as a clever way to convert categorical data into numerical form — without inflating the feature space as one-hot encoding does. However, I haven’t seen any mention of this inherent connection between MTE and decision tree logic on TDS. This article addresses exactly that gap through an illustrative experiment. In…

The FBI is warning that the BADBOX 2.0 malware campaign has infected over 1 million home Internet-connected devices, converting consumer electronics into residential proxies that are used for malicious activity. The BADBOX botnet is commonly found on Chinese Android-based smart TVs, streaming boxes, projectors, tablets, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices. “The BADBOX 2.0 botnet consists of millions of infected devices and maintains numerous backdoors to proxy services that cyber criminal actors exploit by either selling or providing free access to compromised home networks to be used for various criminal activity,” warns the FBI. These devices come preloaded with the BADBOX…

New versions of Chaos RAT target Windows and Linux systems Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2025 Acronis researchers reported that new Chaos RAT variants were employed in 2025 attacks against Linux and Windows systems. Acronis TRU researchers discovered new Chaos RAT variants targeting Linux and Windows in recent attacks. Originally seen in 2022, Chaos RAT evolved in 2024, with fresh samples emerging in 2025. TRU also discovered a critical flaw in the RAT’s web panel that enables remote code execution. The latest variant appears to trick victims into downloading a fake Linux network troubleshooting tool, further expanding its infection methods. “Developed…

John Strand // In this webcast, we walk through different tools to establish and test your Command and Control (C2) detection capabilities. Why does this matter? Almost all organizations we test can’t detect these outgoing channels. Available live/virtual and on-demand