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Hackers Employ Linux Rootkits to Conceal Themselves on VMware ESXi Virtual Machines in UNC3886

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Hackers Employ Linux Rootkits to Conceal Themselves on VMware ESXi Virtual Machines in UNC3886

A Chinese threat actor known as UNC3886 has been using open source rootkits Reptile and Medusa to hide on VMware ESXi virtual machines while stealing credentials and executing commands. Mandiant has been tracking UNC3886’s activities against government organizations, including attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Fortinet and VMware products. UNC3886 has recently targeted organizations in North … Read more

NASA and IBM employ artificial intelligence for studying weather and climate | Earthdata

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NASA and IBM employ artificial intelligence for studying weather and climate | Earthdata

NASA and IBM Research have collaborated to develop a new AI model for weather and climate called Prithvi-weather-climate. This model is pre-trained using 40 years of data from NASA’s MERRA-2 and aims to incorporate AI and machine learning methods into weather and climate applications like storm tracking and forecasting. According to NASA’s open science policies, … Read more

Bay Area tech layoffs soar to brutal heights with huge VMware job cuts

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Bay Area tech layoffs soar to brutal heights with huge VMware job cuts

PALO ALTO — Tech industry job cuts in the Bay Area have reached two new grim milestones with the disclosure that the Broadcom purchase of VMware will spawn well over 1,000 more Silicon Valley layoffs, documents show. With the latest revelations of upcoming layoffs, the tech industry has now disclosed plans to chop twice as … Read more