Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified Synnovis has finally wrapped up its investigation into the 2024 ransomware attack that crippled pathology services across London, ending an 18-month effort to untangle what the NHS supplier describes as one of the most complex …
600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.... [...]
Vendors (still) keep mum An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.... [...]
Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation The Metropolitan Police's seven-year investigation into a record-setting fraudster has ended after she was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.... [...]
Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors UK government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill to Parliament today, marking a significant overhaul of local cybersecurity legislation to sharpen the security posture of the most critical sectors.... [...]
Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption Britain's aviation watchdog has warned it's only a matter of time before organized drone attacks bring UK airports to a standstill.... [...]
A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’ China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has alleged a nation-state entity, probably the USA, was behind a 2020 attack on a bitcoin mining operation and by doing so has gone into …
‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks The head of Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has warned that authoritarian regimes “are growing more willing to disrupt or destroy critical infrastructure”, using cyber-sabotage.... [...]
KONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's "Find Hub" service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets …
Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.... [...]
Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) just published its top 10 categories of application risks for 2025, its first list since 2021. It found that while broken access control remains the top issue …
Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech. Digital engineering outfit GlobalLogic says personal data from more than 10,000 current and former employees was exposed in the wave of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks attributed to …
Norwegian testers claim maker has remote access, while UK importer says supplier complies with the law UK governmental is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to understand and "mitigate" any risk that China-made imported electric buses could be remotely accessed and potentially disabled.... [...]
Massive increase in policy claims... and data doesn’t even cover the major attacks of 2025 The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to the latest figures from the industry's trade association.... [...]
Continuous track of long awaited AFV hits the ground... and the terrain is pretty bumpy The British Army just received its first new armored fighting vehicle (AFV) for nearly three decades, but it is years late, hit by rising costs, is still reportedly injuring its crew, and there are …
Encryption protects content, not context Mischief-makers can guess the subjects being discussed with LLMs using a side-channel attack, according to Microsoft researchers. They told The Register that models from some providers, including Anthropic, AWS, DeepSeek, and Google, haven't been fixed, putting both personal users and enterprise communications at risk …
Resolution acquiesced to by 8 Dems includes CISA Act funding, layoff reversals, and could be easily undone The US Senate voted on Sunday to advance a short-term funding bill for the federal government, moving the country closer to ending its longest-ever shutdown. Part of the spending bill also restores …
One company alone was hit with more than 4,200 emails More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.... [...]
Aleksei Volkov faces years in prison, may have been working with other crews A Russian national will likely face several years in US prison after pleading guilty to a range of offenses related to his work with ransomware crews.... [...]
Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim Allianz UK confirms it was one of the many companies that fell victim to the Clop gang's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attack after crims reported that they had attacked a subsidiary.... [...]
Breaking down trends in exposure management with insights from 3,000+ organizations and Intruder's security experts Partner Content This year has shown just how quickly new exposures can emerge, with AI-generated code shipped before review, cloud sprawl racing ahead of controls, and shadow IT opening blind spots. Supply chain …
Doubles parameters to over 17 billion, to detect threats and recommend actions Exclusive Cisco is working on a new AI model that will more than double the number of parameters used to train its current flagship Foundation-Sec-8B.... [...]
Licensing expert worries they’ll be out of control on day one Microsoft has teased what it’s calling “a new class” of AI agents “that operate as independent users within the enterprise workforce.”... [...]
PLUS: India’s tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more! Asia In Brief Chinese infosec blog MXRN last week reported a data breach at a security company called Knownsec that has ties to Beijing and Chinas …
PLUS: CISA layoffs continue; Lawmakers criticize camera security; China to execute scammers; And more Infosec in brief There's no indication that the brazen bandits who stole jewels from the Louvre attacked the famed French museum's systems, but had they tried, it would have been incredibly easy.... [...]