Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix
Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7 [...]
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Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation
Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack [...]
GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections
Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal [...]
NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting
Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off [...]
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach
Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then [...]
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks
When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider [...]
Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight
Good luck, sys admins [...]
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families
Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain [...]
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder
Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex [...]
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds
A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$ [...]
OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds
Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb [...]
Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets
Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted [...]
Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k
Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act [...]
Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine
'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg [...]
All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields
It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information [...]
Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state
Those backup plans need backup testing [...]
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech
It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers [...]
Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures
Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks [...]
UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion
150 new organizations inducted to cyber’s Soho House, including the first outside the US [...]
'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'
You don't infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries [...]
Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered
Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing [...]
Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices
FSB claims large-scale snoop op compromised phones of senior officials, but gives no technical evidence to back allegations [...]
Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher
Following days of criticism from the security community, Redmond dials back rhetoric, insists vulnerability hunters not in its legal crosshairs [...]
Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage
Chatbot has no respect for timing of its maker's financial announcement [...]
Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers
If you’re going to impersonate an officer, perhaps choose a more sophisticated way to nick cash than asking for gift cards... [...]
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