With more to come, no doubt At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond.... [...]
No customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The Reg Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data."... [...]
Move along, nothing to see here comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix.... [...]
Persians added snooping capabilities to DCHSpy after Israeli bombs fell Four new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and hunts for files by name, surfaced shortly after the Iran-Israel conflict began.... [...]
Fancy Bear can't keep its claws out of Outlook inboxes The UK government is warning that Russia's APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear or Forest Blizzard) has been deploying previously unknown malware to harvest Microsoft email credentials and steal access to compromised accounts.... [...]
Keep It Simple, Stupid Interview Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200.... [...]
Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances... and crime, too Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to …
Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code on the …
'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization' Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production.... [...]
Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.... [...]
Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark Updated Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.... [...]
File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring …
Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'... Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and anti-Trump posts.... [...]
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.... [...]
Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today? A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.... [...]
Add CISA to the list The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added its weighty name to the list of parties agreeing that CVE-2025-5777, dubbed CitrixBleed 2 by one researcher, has been under exploitation and abused to hijack user sessions.... [...]
'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask' A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.... [...]
No, really, those are the magic words A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.... [...]
Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data …
Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.... [...]
These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites …
Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal' While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies — and even Chipotle Mexican Grill — in their web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains …
NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched.... [...]
Watch out for supply chain hacks especially interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.... [...]
Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.... [...]