OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B Uncle Sam has put a $5 million bounty on any information leading to the arrest or conviction of self-titled "CryptoQueen" Ruja Ignatova, who is wanted in the US for apparently bilking victims out of more than $4 billion in what the …
Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them The US has convicted the 24-year-old leader of an international robbery crew that kidnapped and terrorized wealthy victims during home invasions that were carried out to steal cryptocurrency tokens.... [...]
Exploit attempts for ‘devastating’ vulnerabilities already underway Thought last year's MOVEit hellscape was well and truly behind you? Unlucky, buster. We're back for round two after Progress Software lifted the lid on fresh vulnerabilities affecting MOVEit Transfer and Gateway.... [...]
Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia... Julian Assange is a free man.... [...]
Admits it's not sure some clicks came from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten Yahoo ! Japan will waive $189 million charged to advertisers after deciding they were fraudulently charged, the portal's corporate parent revealed on Tuesday.... [...]
Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons Tracking devices are in demand from organized crime groups and known perpetrators of domestic violence, according to an Australian study.... [...]
Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing Updated American healthcare provider Geisinger fears highly personal data on more than a million of its patients has been stolen – and claimed a former employee at a Microsoft subsidiary is the likely culprit.... [...]
Scripts turn sus after mysterious CDN swallows domain The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect more than 100,000 websites with malicious code after what's said to be a Chinese organization bought the domain earlier this year, researchers have said.... [...]
Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Customer information said to have been stolen from Neiman Marcus's Snowflake instance has been put up for sale on the dark web for $150,000.... [...]
Business is more lucrative than you might think The FBI says in just 12 months, scumbags stole circa $10 million from victims of crypto scams after posing as helpful lawyers offering to recover their lost tokens.... [...]
Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness US cybersecurity agency CISA is urging high-risk chemical facilities to secure their online accounts after someone broke into its Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) portal.... [...]
Attacking the NHS is a very bad move UK and US cops have reportedly joined forces to find and fight Qilin, the ransomware gang wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry.... [...]
Why Object First and Veeam tick the box for encryption and immutability Sponsored Feature You know that a technology problem is serious when the White House holds a summit about it.... [...]
WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to just one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, brought …
'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal' Analysis Introduced in April, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was - in the words of its drafters - "the best opportunity we’ve had in decades to establish a national data privacy and security standard that gives people the …
About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama – a popular open source project for running LLMs – can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned that upwards of 1,000 vulnerable instances remain exposed to the internet.... [...]
More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is mounting.... [...]
Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware There are early indications of active attacks targeting end-of-life Zyxel NAS boxes just a few weeks after details of three critical vulnerabilities were made public.... [...]
A busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not.... [...]
Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling …
Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Who, me? Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for it is once again Monday, and the work week has commenced. Thankfully, The Reg is here with another dose of Who, Me? in which readers share tales …
Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims – and even one of the alleged intruders – coming forward last week.... [...]
All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also introduce risk."... [...]
It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October.... [...]
'Substantial proportion' of America to get a note from next month Change Healthcare is formally notifying some of its pharmacy and hospital customers that their patients' data was stolen from it by ransomware criminals back in February – and for the first time has concretely disclosed the types of information …