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Ransomware

Lotus Ransomware (.lotus; README-LOTUS.txt)

Page 1 of 2 - Lotus Ransomware (.lotus; README-LOTUS.txt) - posted in Ransomware Help & Tech Support: Hey all,   I just realized that I was hit with Lotus Ransomware. All files now end with .lotus extension. It affected my Asustor nas and was working its way

1 min read 4 views Oct 02
Vulnerabilities

Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval

A California business owner was arrested on Thursday after being charged with allegedly smuggling Nvidia hardware to China without the proper export licenses. Keeping the highest-end GPUs out of Chinese hands has been a priority for the US government. Greg Lui, 38, allegedly tried to export around $

4 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

Some topics are off limits in Chinese AI, researchers find

An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. Qwen, a freely a

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Policy & Law

The SEC is turning crypto custody into a fight over asset coverage

The SEC's proposal could reshape the crypto custody landscape, emphasizing asset coverage and integration over regulatory status alone.

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Cloud

Software procurement checklist: What to evaluate before you buy

Zylo’s 2026 SaaS Management Index reports that, measured against industry-recommended utilization levels, organizations leave an average of 36% of SaaS licenses unused. A software procurement checklist can help teams catch waste, risk, cost, and adoption issu

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Vulnerabilities

Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report

The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides.

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

An Argument Against AI Doom

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube The flood of reports about AI agents escaping and hacking websites can feel scary. But is this actually just a matter of needing better security to

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Vulnerabilities

Kiteworks & Citrix Incidents Show Challenges of Zero-Day Response

One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remained mum on reported attacks prior to releasing a patch for its product.

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

Most of Us Have Been Cyberattack Targets, Consumer Reports Finds. AI Isn’t Helping

Pretty much all of our personal data is online at this point. Whether it’s saved credit cards or photos in your social media profiles, your private life is easily accessible — including to hackers.

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Ransomware

,lotus encrypted files

posted in Ransomware Help & Tech Support: Dear Sirs, Id like identify the ramsoware that encrypted my files. The extension of files is .lotus; In adding I like to know if possible now or inthe will be possible files will be recored. T

1 min read 4 views Oct 02
AI Security

EUC World Amplify 2026 Day Two: Skipping Forklift Migrations, DEX Without Alert Fatigue, Entra Travel Policies, and Running LLMs on Private Infrastructure

EUC World Amplify 2026 continued Wednesday, September 30, at Milwaukee’s Baird Center, with a second day of technical sessions, architecture panels, vendor demos, and the hallway conversations that are the real reason most people come. After spending Tuesday

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena

California's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as the state investigates what happens when the AI lab's models escape their testing environments and start meddling with systems on the open internet. Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office served OpenAI with an investigative subpoena this wee

3 min read 4 views Oct 02

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