The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.... [...]
‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.... [...]
PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software Infosec in brief Online criminals prefer to deal in digital assets, but a side effect of a ransomware attack has seen a French museum robbed of $705,000 in physical gold nuggets …
A critical combination of legacy components could have allowed complete access to the Microsoft Entra ID tenant of every company in the world. [...]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has shut down the TradeOgre cryptocurrency exchange and seized more than $40 million believed to originate from criminal activities. [...]
A comparison aimed at kids. [...]
Two of the Kremlin’s most active hacking units recently were spotted collaborating in malware attacks that compromise high-value devices located in Ukraine, security researchers said Friday. One of the groups is Turla, which is easily one of the world’s most sophisticated advanced persistent threats (well-organized and well-funded …
Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.... [...]
Amazon Web Service (AWS) recently announced that AWS Organizations now offers full AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy language support for service control policies (SCPs). With this feature, you can use conditions, individual resource Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and the NotAction element with Allow statements. Additionally, you can …
Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.... [...]
The FBI warned today that cybercriminals are impersonating its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website in what the law enforcement agency described as "possible malicious activity." [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Summer 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The report covers 183 services over the 12-month period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. The reports demonstrate …
As cloud infrastructure evolves, so should how you safeguard that technology. As part of our efforts to help you maintain a strong security posture, we’ve introduced powerful capabilities that can address some of the thorniest challenges faced by IT teams who work with Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an analysis of the malware deployed in attacks exploiting vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). [...]
Outside experts say the vulnerability has probably already been exploited Budding ransomware crooks have another shot at exploiting Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT product now that a new 10/10 severity vulnerability needs patching.... [...]
Fortra has released security updates to patch a maximum severity vulnerability in GoAnywhere MFT's License Servlet that can be exploited in command injection attacks. [...]
Ransomware remains one of the most destructive threats—because defenses keep failing. Picus Blue Report 2025 shows prevention dropped to 62%, while data exfiltration prevention collapsed to just 3%. [...]
Feds say gift card splurges tied suspect to multimillion-dollar ransomware crew Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bilking more than 100 organizations out of at least $115 …
Bad opsec Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bilking more than 100 organizations out of at least $115 million in ransom payments. The cops nabbed him after …
Until Microsoft lobbed it into a virtual volcano A security researcher claims to have found a flaw that could have handed him the keys to almost every Entra ID tenant worldwide.... [...]
The Atlantic Council has published its second annual report: “ Mythical Beasts: Diving into the depths of the global spyware market.” Too much good detail to summarize, but here are two items: First, the authors found that the number of US-based investors in spyware has notably increased in the past …
Radware says flaw enabled hidden email prompts to trick Deep Research agent into exfiltrating sensitive data ChatGPT's research assistant sprung a leak – since patched – that let attackers steal Gmail secrets with just a single carefully crafted email.... [...]
Another blow for the legislation as Parliament continues to hear stakeholder views As UK ministers continue to quiz stakeholders over the effectiveness of the Online Safety Act, one charity chief raised concerns over the robustness of Ofcom's enforcement of the controversial legislation.... [...]
YouTube vids explain digital tradecraft to reach spooks over Tor or VPN without blowing your cover The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has created a dark web portal called “Silent Courier” that it hopes would-be foreign informants will find a suitably secure means of sharing secrets.... [...]
Federal prosecutors charged a UK teenager with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other crimes in connection with the network intrusions of 47 US companies that generated more than $115 million in ransomware payments over a three-year span. A criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday (PDF) said that Thalha Jubair …
Organizations are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to provide new types of customer interactions through generative AI-powered chatbots, virtual assistants, and intelligent search capabilities. To enhance these interactions, organizations are using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to incorporate proprietary data, industry-specific knowledge, and internal documentation to provide more accurate, contextual …
Sixth such Chrome flaw this year spotted by the Chocolate Factory, already in play Google pushed an emergency patch for a high-severity Chrome flaw, already under active exploitation. So it's time to make sure you're running the most recent version of the web browser.... [...]
The face-palm-worthy prompt injections against AI assistants continue. Today’s installment hits OpenAI’s Deep Research agent. Researchers recently devised an attack that plucked confidential information out of a user’s Gmail inbox and sent it to an attacker-controlled web server, with no interaction required on the part of …
Vendor pulls plug on cloud backup feature, urges admins to reset passwords and re-secure devices SonicWall is telling some customers to reset passwords after attackers broke into its cloud backup service and accessed firewall configuration data.... [...]
Organizations today face immense pressure to secure their digital assets against increasingly sophisticated threats — without overwhelming their teams or budgets. Using managed security service providers (MSSPs) to implement and optimize new technology, and handle security operations, is a strategic delegation that can make internal security operations staff more efficient …
Three US medical centers fess up to serious breaches Cybercriminals broke in and stole nearly a million Americans' data in the space of a week, in the course of three digital burglaries at healthcare providers.... [...]
Two teenagers, believed to be linked to the August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, have been arrested in the United Kingdom. [...]
The operators of the SystemBC proxy botnet are hunting for vulnerable commercial virtual private servers (VPS) and maintain an average of 1,500 bots every day that provide a highway for malicious traffic. [...]
Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension's ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140 hospitals and put the medical records of 5.6 million patients into …
Microsoft 365's dominance and tight integration makes it a massive target in today's cyber landscape. Its tight integration expands the attack surface and amplifies risk. Learn from Acronis TRU why backup blind spots & lateral movement risks demand stronger defenses. [...]
The Python Software Foundation team has invalidated all PyPI tokens stolen in the GhostAction supply chain attack in early September, confirming that the threat actors didn't abuse them to publish malware. [...]
Decisive action comes nearly a year after the attack and first arrest took place Two teenagers are set to appear in court today after being charged with offences related to the cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) in August 2024.... [...]
Dashboard loop caused API outage that was hard to troubleshoot Cloudflare has confessed to a coding error using a React useEffect hook, notorious for being problematic if not handled carefully, that caused an outage for the platform's dashboard and many of its APIs.... [...]
VC giant rebuilt boxes, patched holes, and says it’s beefed up security – but won’t say who did it Venture capital giant Insight Partners has confirmed that a January ransomware attack compromised the personal data of more than 12,000 people, including employees, former staff, and the firm's …
This is a nice piece of research: “ Mind the Gap: Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use Vulnerabilities in LLM-Enabled Agents “.: Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled agents are rapidly emerging across a wide range of applications, but their deployment introduces vulnerabilities with security implications. While prior work has examined prompt-based attacks (e …
Proofpoint spots efforts to spy on US economic policy nerds Chinese state-aligned online attackers are back at it, targeting US trade policy wonks as Washington and Beijing spar over economic ties.... [...]
WatchGuard has released security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability impacting the company's Firebox firewalls. [...]
Google has released emergency security updates to patch a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, the sixth one tagged as exploited in attacks since the start of the year. [...]
As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony …
The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens. [...]
AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that filters and controls network traffic in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Unlike traditional network controls such as security groups or network access control lists (NACLs), Network Firewall can inspect and make decisions based on information from higher layers of …
I joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a principal security engineer 3 years ago and my first project was leading security for PL/Rust on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This is an extension that lets you write custom functions for PostgreSQL in Rust, which are then compiled …
You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you? Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.... [...]
New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is notifying thousands of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack. [...]
SonicWall warned customers today to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach that impacted MySonicWall accounts. [...]