Kimwolf Android botnet abuses residential proxies to infect internal devices

The Kimwolf botnet, an Android variant of the Aisuru malware, has grown to more than two million hosts, most of them infected ...

Malicious Chrome extensions caught stealing sensitive data

Chrome extensions called "Phantom Shuttle" stole user data for years before Google removed them from the Chrome Web Store ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Urban VPN Proxy Accused of Harvesting AI Chat Conversations

A widely used browser extension marketed as a free VPN has reportedly been collecting and transmitting users’ conversations with major AI chat platforms. According to new research from security firm ...
Law

'A Whole Sequence of Attacks': White House Increases Heat on Proxy Advisers With New Executive Order

The executive order, titled “Protecting American Investors from Foreign-Owned and Politically-Motivated Proxy Advisors,” was issued on Thursday, continuing a line of action against proxy advisers.
The White House

PROTECTING AMERICAN INVESTORS FROM FOREIGN-OWNED AND

Section 1. Purpose. Unbeknownst to many Americans, two foreign-owned proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC, play a significant role in shaping the ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft’s Dev Proxy puts APIs to the test

Much of modern application development depends on APIs. In the past we may have built massive monolithic applications, but modern cloud-native development depends on collections of microservices, ...
MarketWatch

Why has Invesco’s QQQ called me two dozen times in the past few weeks? Is it a scam?

Invesco’s QQQ fund is one of the largest ETFs in the world, with $400 billion put toward tracking the Nasdaq-100 index. What the heck do they want with me? When my phone first started buzzing with QQQ ...
InfoWorld

Kotlin introduces checker for unused return values

Kotlin 2.3.0 has reached the release candidate (RC) stage. Highlights of the latest update of JetBrains’s Java alternative include a new checker for unused return values, improved interoperability ...
Wall Street Journal

White House Explores Rules That Would Upend Shareholder Voting

The White House is exploring new measures to curb the influence of proxy advisers and index-fund managers, wading into a hot-button debate raised by high-profile CEOs including Elon Musk and Jamie ...
Reuters

Proxy firm Glass Lewis joins ISS in urging vote against Musk's $1 trillion pay package

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Proxy firm Glass Lewis has recommended that Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab shareholders vote against the proposed $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk, days after ISS also urged ...
Reuters

Under pressure, proxy adviser Glass Lewis to end benchmark recommendations

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Major proxy adviser Glass Lewis will no longer offer its "benchmark" voting recommendations starting in 2027 and instead will offer a set of new options for clients, according to a ...