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The Hacker News

AmnesiaStealer Hijacks Chromium Sessions to Give Attackers Live Browser Control on macOS

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new macOS-oriented, Rust-based information stealer called AmnesiaStealer that's capable of hijacking Chromium web browsers to steal session data. The multi-stage stealer is spread via a counterfeit GitHub download page titled "Download for macOS" and claims to be from a verified publisher. The page employs a ClickFix-style lure that

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ExternalCybersecurity
BleepingComputer

White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations

A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump instructs the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that would allow private security companies to apply for approval to hack foreign cybercrime organizations. [...]

Security
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ExternalTechnology Trends
Wired Business

Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other markets. You know the ones.

BusinessBusiness / Regulation
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ExternalObservability
Grafana Blog

How volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud

Tracing is one of the richest observability signals, but it's also noisy and susceptible to data bloat.  In a busy system, the vast majority of traces describe the same healthy, fast, successful request over and over, so most organizations downsample their traces to cut costs. But that approach has consequences, since the sampling strategy you choose determines whether you get a faithful picture of your whole system, or just a smaller, blurrier copy of your busiest endpoints. We want to help you

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