UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the…
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Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome’s attempts to make it harder
The end isn’t nigh after all Chrome’s latest revision of its browser extension architecture, known as Manifest v3 (MV3), was widely expected to make content blocking and privacy extensions less effective than its predecessor, Manifest v2 (MV2).… This article has…
OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks
Skills marketplace is full of stuff – like API keys and credit card numbers – that crims will find tasty Another day, another vulnerability (or two, or 200) in the security nightmare that is OpenClaw.… This article has been indexed…
Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach
Contact details were accessed in an intrusion that went undetected for months, the blogging outfit says Newsletter platform Substack has admitted that an intruder swiped user contact details months before the company noticed, forcing it to warn writers and readers…
Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries
And their toolkit includes a new, Linux kernel rootkit A state-aligned cyber group in Asia compromised government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries in an ongoing espionage campaign, according to security researchers.… This article has been indexed from The…
Betterment breach may expose 1.4M users after social engineering attack
Breach-tracking site flags dataset following impersonation-based intrusion Breach-tracking site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) claims a cyberattack on Betterment affected roughly 1.4 million users – although the investment company has yet to publicly confirm how many customers were affected by…
n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix
Patch meant to close a severe expression bug fails to stop attackers with workflow access Multiple newly disclosed bugs in the popular workflow automation tool n8n could allow attackers to hijack servers, steal credentials, and quietly disrupt AI-driven business processes.……
Italy claims cyberattacks ‘of Russian origin’ are pelting Winter Olympics
Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event Italy’s foreign minister says the country has already started swatting away cyberattacks from Russia targeting the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.… This article has been indexed from The…
Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern
Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much it matters –…
Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door
It’s a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect Sleeper agent-style backdoors in AI large language models pose a straight-out-of-sci-fi security threat.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Three…
Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar
Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company’s executive veep for security, into the job.… This article has…
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say
LLMs automated most phases of the attack A digital intruder broke into an AWS cloud environment and in just under 10 minutes went from initial access to administrative privileges, thanks to an AI speed assist.… This article has been indexed…
Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack
US agencies told to patch by Friday Attackers are exploiting a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug – less than a week after the vendor disclosed and fixed the 9.8-rated flaw. That’s according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which set…
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach
Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees who had their details exposed in a significant 2023 data breach will each receive £7,500 ($10,279) as part of a universal offer…
Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can’t unlock your files
Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who have been targeted by the Nitrogen group. There’s no way to get…
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out If you’re brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it…
AI agents can’t yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks – but they are already very helpful to crims
Don’t relax: This is a ‘when, not if’ scenario AI agents and other systems can’t yet conduct cyberattacks fully on their own – but they can help criminals in many stages of the attack chain, according to the International AI…
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void
Too slow react-ion time Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native’s Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven’t received the “broad public acknowledgement” that they should,…
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders
GreyNoise’s Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities On 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that’s a problem.… This article…