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Google shared that they’ve at last completed the expansion of its data centre campus and cloud region in Singapore. The company has invested a total of $5 billion in digital infrastructure in Singapore, a substantial increase from $850m in 2018.

Giorgio Fortunato, head of clean energy and power in Asia-Pacific for Google, shared on LinkedIn that this investment will contribute to Singapore’s economic growth. He stated:

Major Expansion: “We have completed a major expansion of our data centre and cloud region campus in #Singapore, bringing Google’s total investments in technical infrastructure in the country to US$5 billion to support advancements in #Cloud and #AI technologies.”

Economic Impact:

“Google’s investment will contribute to Singapore’s economic…

A new hacking campaign has been spotted in which the attackers are abusing legitimate cloud storage services to host malicious payloads.

In a research report, Securonix said that the campaign starts with a phishing email containing a .ZIP archive. When unzipped, the archive delivers an executable file that was made to look like an Excel file. The file uses a hidden left-to-right override (RLO) Unicode character, reversing the order of the characters that follow.

At the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced an addition to its Firebase platform that aims to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Go support coming soon.

Firebase Genkit is an open source framework, using the Apache 2.0 license, that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.

Some of the use cases for Genkit that the company is highlighting Tuesday include many of the standard generative AI use cases: content generation and summarization, text translation and generating images.

“Powerful large language models put AI-powered app features within reach, but building and refining these features beyond a prototype is hard,” Google product manager Chris Gill and developer…

Speaking at the partnership event, Gopal Vittal, managing director & CEO of Bharti Airtel, said, “As India accelerates its digital transformation, cutting-edge cloud and AI solutions will be at the heart and center of this change. We are happy to partner with Google Cloud and jointly address this market opportunity with secure and scalable Cloud solutions for government, enterprises, and emerging businesses. Together, we will also accelerate the deployment of gen AI in the country and unlock its potential to solve problems.”

Some attackers use online meeting services as bait for malware. Researchers at Zscaler found fake Skype, Zoom and Google Meet websites that were used by threat actors to spread Remote Access Trojans – RAT for short.

Zscaler’s ThreatLabZ team warns about fake online meeting sites that distribute various malware families. Already at the beginning of December 2023, the researchers discovered a threat actor who creates fake Skype, Google Meet and Zoom websites to spread malware in order to spread remote access Trojans such as SpyNote RAT to Android users and NjRAT and DCRat to Windows users . These pages keep appearing in new versions.

🔎 The attack chain and execution flow for Android and Windows campaigns (Image: Zscaler).

Deceptively real web addresses as a trap

The malware actor…