Poisoned PNGs contain malicious code A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware.... [...]

The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did. Opinion For years, Google has seemingly indulged a corporate fetish of taking products that are beloved, then killing them. AWS has been on a different kick lately: Killing services that frankly shouldn't have seen the light of day …

Don't believe everything you read Afraid of connecting to public Wi-Fi? Terrified to turn your Bluetooth on? You may be falling for "hacklore," tall tales about cybersecurity that distract you from real dangers. Dozens of chief security officers and ex-CISA officials have launched an effort and website to dispel …

Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments... and 5 newly assigned CVEs A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit chain to completely disrupt cloud services and …

SitusAMC rules out ransomware, but accounting records for major institutions potentially affected Real estate finance business SitusAMC says thieves sneaked into its systems earlier this month and made off with confidential client data.... [...]

Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round, according to Wiz researchers who say that more than 25,000 developers had their secrets compromised within three days.... [...]

Months after China-linked spies burrowed into US networks, regulator tears up its own response The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks …

Agencies have until December 12 to mitigate flaw that was likely exploited before Big Red released fix CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been …

Reflections on coaching, collaboration, and the pursuit of excellence in cyber security Partner Content From 6th to 10th October 2025, ten exceptional cyber enthusiasts proudly flew the flag for the United Kingdom in the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC), held this year in the vibrant setting of Poland.... [...]

The shoemaker’s children have new friends The International Association for Cryptologic Research will run a second election for new board members and other officers, after it was unable to complete its first poll due to a lost encryption key.... [...]

PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more! Asia In Brief Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has suggested Indian citizens should work 72-hour weeks, up from his previous target of 70 hours.... [...]

PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more Infosec In Brief Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution flaw in the tool's CLI.... [...]

Shiny talks to The Reg EXCLUSIVE ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the Gainsight breach that allowed the data thieves to snarf data from hundreds more Salesforce customers.... [...]

Prosecutors say front companies, falsified paperwork, and overseas drop points used to dodge US export rules Four people have been charged in the US with plotting to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips into China, allegedly relying on shell firms, fake invoices, and covert routing to slip cutting-edge GPUs past …

UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy On Christmas Day 2024, a Russian-linked laundering network bought itself a very special present: a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstan bank, later used to wash cybercrime profits and funnel money into Moscow's war machine, according to …

A multi-layered security framework protecting large-model applications from adversarial threats, data leakage, API abuse, and content risks Partner Content At MWC Shanghai 2025, ZTE has officially launched its ZXCSec MAF product, a dedicated application-layer security protection device specifically designed for large model services.... [...]

Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.... [...]

Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack.... [...]

They keep coming back for more Salesforce has disclosed another third-party breach in which criminals - likely ShinyHunters (again) - may have accessed hundreds of its customers' data.... [...]

Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.... [...]

PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.... [...]

Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.... [...]

Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.... [...]

GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.... [...]

Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced …