Author: HackWatchit

Gamaredon targeted the military mission of a Western country based in Ukraine Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2025 Gamaredon targeted a foreign military mission in Ukraine with updated GammaSteel malware on Feb 26, 2025, per Symantec. Symantec Threat Hunter researchers reported that the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (a.k.a. Shuckworm, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, Callisto) targeted a foreign military mission based in Ukraine with an updated version of the GamaSteel infostealer. Shuckworm is known for targeting government, law enforcement, and defense organizations in Ukraine since 2013. “Shuckworm’s relentless focus on Ukraine has continued into 2025, with the group targeting the military mission of a Western…

There’s a man in Quezon City who’s walked the same four-block scrap route for over a decade. No ID. No payroll. But everyone on that street knows him. He’s the one who always shows up. He knows which households throw out copper. Which mornings have better yield. Which buyers underreport weight. He’s an informal economist in flip flops, a master of urban logistics, running on instinct and sweat. But if he gets hit by a truck tomorrow, no system will remember he ever existed.Multiply him by 20 million. That’s the global informal waste workforce. Coordinating without apps. Surviving without systems and…

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s memory feature with the ability to remember and reference all the past conversations. The Memory feature isn’t new and has been around for more than a year. With Memory, ChatGPT can save conversations, especially when you ask the AI to remember something. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to remember that you don’t like bullet points, it will avoid using them in future chats. However, the catch is that ChatGPT cannot remember everything and it could mix up conversations after some point. This changes with the new version of Memory. OpenAI confirms new version of Memory could change…

Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves? It is unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. Modern representative democracy was the best form of government that eighteenth-century technology could invent. The twenty-first century is very different: scientifically, technically, and philosophically. For example, eighteenth-century democracy was designed under the assumption that travel…

In this Help Net Security interview, Norah Beers, CISO at Grayscale, discusses key security challenges in managing crypto assets, adversary tactics, private key management, and securing both hot and cold wallets. From a threat modeling perspective, what unique adversary tactics do you see in the crypto space that don’t often appear in traditional finance? The adversaries themselves aren’t fundamentally different between traditional finance and the crypto industry, but certain of the tactics they employ are distinct and the sophistication of attackers in the crypto space is notably higher. Holding and transacting in digital assets requires unique technologies and processes, which…

A few short years ago, penetration testers did not have to work too hard for their malware command channels to execute. Fast forward to today in the age of Endpoint Detection and Response, User Behavior Analytics, and advanced built-in O/S defenses, your standard toolkit for malware generation/execution does not work anymore. All is not lost! Using some relatively simple programming techniques, and tactical changes, we can still gain malware execution to establish our C2 channels. With some additional tactical changes post-exploitation, we can still move around below the radar but we need to move with greater care and stealth than…

President Donald J. Trump has signed a new executive order titled “Reforming Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability,” aiming to modernize and streamline the United States’ foreign military sales process. The directive outlines a series of actions intended to strengthen U.S. defense partnerships abroad while revitalizing the domestic defense industrial base. Purpose and Policy The order emphasizes the need for a rapid and transparent foreign defense sales system to support U.S. foreign policy objectives and enhance the defense capabilities of allies. It calls for improved efficiency, accountability, and industry collaboration in the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Direct…

truth is never perfect. From scientific measurements to human annotations used to train deep learning models, ground truth always has some amount of errors. ImageNet, arguably the most well-curated image dataset has 0.3% errors in human annotations. Then, how can we evaluate predictive models using such erroneous labels? In this article, we explore how to account for errors in test data labels and estimate a model’s “true” accuracy. Example: image classification Let’s say there are 100 images, each containing either a cat or a dog. The images are labeled by human annotators who are known to have 96% accuracy (Aᵍʳᵒᵘⁿᵈᵗʳᵘᵗʰ).…

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