PLUS: Kryptos solution up for auction; Canadian parliament springs a leak; Fake crypto lawyers; And more Infosec In Brief New York State is suing bank-owned peer-to-peer payment app Zelle, claiming that the banks behind it knew fraud was rampant on the platform but allowed scammers to conduct business with …
'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,' one tells The Reg Feature Bill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election.... [...]
Is that a JuicyPotato on your network? A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos reports.... [...]
Switchzilla's summer of perfect 10s Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands on vulnerable systems.... [...]
Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters? The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country.... [...]
London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as 'protective measure' following breach Updated Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a "cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a number of days.... [...]
System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into 'investigator' and 'detective' roles that bypass privacy guardrails A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’ personal data, even by attackers with "minimal technical …
As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say Register debate series It's a lot of money, £9 billion ($12 billion). Especially for a government which finds itself — for whatever reason — in a fiscal dead end.... [...]
Some custom malware, some legit software tools At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool on the market, escalate privileges, and ultimately steal and encrypt data before extorting victims into paying a …
Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as $40.... [...]
Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023's Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have published details of a "common design flaw" in implementations of the HyperText Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2 …
The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising CISA is urging companies with operational technology environments to set a better cybersecurity posture, and not just by adopting some new best practices and purchasing some new software.... [...]
Turkish exchange is the latest victim of a recent spate of major crypto thefts Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk is halting all deposits and withdrawals amid fears that blockchain bandits succeeded in significantly compromising its hot wallets.... [...]
Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court's creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a dam's controls – a transatlantic double-act in legal …
Nearly 100,000 records allegedly up for sale after apparent breach at booking system Italy's digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal's claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine.... [...]
Intruders accessed important systems but tells customers their data is safe A UK-based multinational that provides tech stock availability tools is telling customers that its website outage is due to a cyber attack.... [...]
Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience? Register debate series The UK government's five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each year—nearly £9 billion in total over half a decade …
If there's smoke? Fortinet warned customers about a critical FortiSIEM bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands, and said working exploit code for the flaw has been found in the wild.... [...]
CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a "better time" when this was all fields and kids respected their elders - and it looks like cyber criminals …
Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policing." Privacy campaigners disagree.... [...]
Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK's Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.... [...]
For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be Register debate series Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year in software …
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time Updated The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of "high severity protocol vulnerabilities," addressed in the latest version, saying patching them requires a breaking change in servers …
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the Minnesota capital to declare a state of …
Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called "stablecoin" Terra USD and now faces time in jail.... [...]