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Hudson Rock said the attackers went on to “actively intercept SSL VPN authentication hashes and crack them using a massive, dedicated 45-GPU cluster managed via Hashtopolis.” From there, they used the GPU cluster to crack the hashes, meaning to try massive combinations of plain-text passwords until they found the right one. These passwords allowed the threat actors to move laterally to compromise Active Directory environments and other centralized authentication systems. “This aggressive methodology has led to severe, real-world consequences,” Hudson Rock said. “Diachenko’s research confirmed full network compromises at multiple organizations across Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Iraq, and Turkey. Most alarmingly,…

The Wednesday afternoon decline in the S & P 500 after Federal Reserve officials signaled possible interest rate hikes to tamp down inflation accelerated into the close. While the Fed opted to keep rates unchanged at the end of Kevin Warsh ‘s first monetary policy meeting as Fed chairman, it was the so-called dot-plot of what central bankers see for rates and the economy that spooked the markets. The S & P 500 closed down 1.2%, as bond yields rose. The 10-year Treasury yield rose back to nearly 4.5% as nine members of the FOMC thought the fed funds rate…

Carro enters Australia with CarPlace buy, expanding to eighth market Source link

State urges FCC to move slowly AT&T said it has received relief from Carrier of Last Resort obligations in 20 of the 21 states in its wireline service territory. Carrier of Last Resort rules require phone companies to provide landline telephone service to any potential customer in their service territory. The CPUC rejected AT&T’s request to end its California landline obligations in 2024. At the time, the agency urged AT&T to upgrade copper lines to fiber rather than shut down the outdated portions of its network. In addition to its FCC petition, AT&T filed a lawsuit against California last month…

The Federal Reserve and Chairman Kevin Warsh on Wednesday followed the script on interest rates closely, voting to keep the benchmark level steady, but dropped several surprises that kept markets guessing about where things are heading. Markets didn’t like it, with major averages swooning after the meeting and as Warsh spoke in his news conference.Here are the five biggest takeaways:No rate changes, but the hawks are circling: There were no apparent dissents to keep the federal funds rate targeted between 3.5%-3.75%. However, the “dot plot” of expectations further out showed an inclination towards a hike later this year. The Federal…

Kardigan prices upsized IPO at $16 per share on Nasdaq Source link

Amazon’s top artificial intelligence executive told CNBC on Wednesday that he hopes the company will be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier models in the “coming year” after falling behind the two leading labs. “I think it’s a fair narrative that our models haven’t been at the very frontier for the very largest, most demanding workloads,” Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon who heads up the company’s semiconductor, AI and quantum efforts, told CNBC.The “frontier” refers to the most advanced AI models. “We’ve been taking a very deliberate approach to get our foundations right, our…

Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore.Welcome to the latest edition of  “Inside India” — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest-growing large economy.While the U.S. and China have been racing to develop a sovereign artificial intelligence stack, India was confident of making its mark by building the AI application layer on top of foreign foundational models. But now New Delhi is being pushed to rethink its strategy as Washington moves to restrict certain AI offerings. Any thoughts on today’s newsletter? Share them with the team.The big storyIndia’s artificial intelligence strategy was simple: become an AI…

CME veteran chief Duffy steps down; Fitzpatrick named first woman CEO Source link

The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina Holdings, a Singapore-based company that has dubbed its new therapeutic larvae MediFly Maggots. With the clearance, Cuprina appears to be the only company to have FDA clearance to sell two species of fly larvae—and it’s abuzz with the potential to dominate the global maggot market. The new species is Lucilia cuprina, or Australian sheep blowfly. It’s a close relative of Lucilia sericata, or the common green bottle fly, which is the fly species most often…