Monday morning round-up – Legal Cheek
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Victims in rape cases can lie in court, says leading barrister (£) British law firm representing Hamas changes…
TAG-140 Deploys DRAT V2 RAT, Targeting Indian Government, Defense, and Rail Sectors – The Hacker News
A hacking group with ties other than Pakistan has been found targeting Indian government organizations with a modified variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called DRAT. The activity has…
Court of Appeal upholds post-PACCAR litigation funding deals – Legal Futures
The Court of Appeal has upheld as enforceable litigation funding agreements which calculate funders’ return as a multiple of their investment, rather than a percentage of damages. The post Court…
Solicitor tried to stop counterpart reporting breach of undertaking – Legal Futures
A solicitor who breached an undertaking and then tried to stop his opposite number reporting him to the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been struck off. The post Solicitor tried to…
Solicitor acting for Hamas ditches “traditional law firm model” – Legal Futures
Riverway Law, the law firm representing terror group Hamas, has closed down in its current form and is set to reappear as the legal arm of a movement called Riverway…
BSB lays out reforms to speed up disciplinary cases – Legal Futures
Major changes to the way in which barristers are disciplined – enabling cases to move faster through the process – have been laid out by the Bar Standards Board. The…
Taiwan NSB Alerts Public on Data Risks from TikTok, Weibo, and RedNote Over China Ties – The Hacker News
Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) has warned that China-developed applications like RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu), Weibo, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data…
Alert: Exposed JDWP Interfaces Lead to Crypto Mining, Hpingbot Targets SSH for DDoS – The Hacker News
Threat actors are weaponizing exposed Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) interfaces to obtain code execution capabilities and deploy cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. “The attacker used a modified version of…
Verified, but vulnerable: Malicious extensions exploit IDE trust badges – CSO Online
Developers across popular integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor are at risk of running malicious extensions marked as “verified.” A new report…
NightEagle APT Exploits Microsoft Exchange Flaw to Target China’s Military and Tech Sectors – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers as a part of a zero-day exploit…
Kritische Schwachstelle in Cisco Unified CM entdeckt – CSO Online
Bereits zum zweiten Mal in einer Woche muss Cisco eine Schwachstelle mit höchsten Schweregrad melden. JarTee – shutterstock.com Cisco meldete kürzlich eine Schwachstelle mit höchster Schweregradbewertung (CVSS 10 von 10)…
How legal firms are unlocking high performance with Microsoft 365 Copilot – Legal Futures
One of the most promising tools is Microsoft 365 Copilot – a generative AI productivity assistant designed to save time, ease pressure on teams and support better outcomes for clients…
Your AI Agents Might Be Leaking Data — Watch this Webinar to Learn How to Stop It – The Hacker News
Generative AI is changing how businesses work, learn, and innovate. But beneath the surface, something dangerous is happening. AI agents and custom GenAI workflows are creating new, hidden ways for…
Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on…
Council of Europe selects Jylo for 3,000+ user platform rollout – Legal Futures
Jylo, a European enterprise AI platform purpose-built for legal, government and international institutions announces an enterprise rollout with the Council of Europe. The post Council of Europe selects Jylo for…