We call this lead degeneration What’s claimed to be more than 183 million records of people’s contact details and employment info has been stolen or otherwise obtained from a data broker and put up for sale by a miscreant.… This…
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Ransomware fiends boast they’ve stolen 1.4TB from US pharmacy network
American Associated Pharmacies yet to officially confirm infection American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is the latest US healthcare organization to have had its data stolen and encrypted by cyber-crooks, it is feared.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Microsoft slips Task Manager and processor count fixes into Patch Tuesday
Sore about cores no more Microsoft has resolved two issues vexing Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 users among the many security updates that emerged on Patch Tuesday.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance
Ohm, for flux sake China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet are back, compromising old Cisco routers once again to break into critical infrastructure networks and kick off cyberattacks, according to security researchers.… This article has been indexed from The…
Admins can give thanks this November for dollops of Microsoft patches
Don’t be a turkey – get these fixed Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has swung around again, and Microsoft has released fixes for 89 CVE-listed security flaws in its products – including two under active attack – and reissued three more.……
Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord
Jack Teixeira, 22, talked of ‘culling the weak minded’ – hmm! A former Air National Guard member who stole classified American military secrets, and showed them to his gaming buddies on Discord, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.……
Here’s what we know about the suspected Snowflake data extortionists
A Canadian and an American living in Turkey ‘walk into’ cloud storage environments… Two men allegedly compromised what’s believed to be multiple organizations’ Snowflake-hosted cloud environments, stole sensitive data within, and extorted at least $2.5 million from at least three…
‘Cybersecurity issue’ at Food Lion parent blamed for US grocery mayhem
Stores still open, but customers report delayed deliveries, invoicing issues, and more at Stop & Shop and others Retail giant Ahold Delhaize, which owns Food Lion and Stop & Shop, among others, is confirming outages at several of its US…
HTTP your way into Citrix’s Virtual Apps and Desktops with fresh exploit code
‘Once again, we’ve lost a little more faith in the internet,’ researcher says Researchers are publicizing a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for what they’re calling an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Citrix’s Virtual Apps and Desktops.… This…
Managing third-party risks in complex IT environments
Key steps to protect your organization’s data from unauthorized external access Webinar With increasing reliance on contractors, partners, and vendors, managing third-party access to systems and data is a complex security challenge.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability
Over 5 million records from 25 organizations posted to black hat forum Amazon employees’ data is part of a stolen trove posted to a cybercrime forum linked to last year’s MOVEit vulnerability.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
FBI issues warning as crooks ramp up emergency data request scams
Just because it’s .gov doesn’t mean that email is trustworthy Cybercrooks abusing emergency data requests in the US isn’t new, but the FBI says it’s becoming a more pronounced issue as the year draws to a close.… This article has…
Dark web crypto laundering kingpin sentenced to 12.5 years in prison
Prosecutors hand Russo-Swede a half-billion bill The operator of the longest-running money laundering machine in dark web history, Bitcoin Fog, has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in US prison.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume
Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn’t over, eh. … This article has been…
Scattered Spider, BlackCat claw their way back from criminal underground
We all know by now that monsters never die, right? Two high-profile criminal gangs, Scattered Spider and BlackCat/ALPHV, seemed to disappear into the darkness like their namesakes following a series of splashy digital heists last year, after which there were…
Winos4.0 abuses gaming apps to infect, control Windows machines
‘Multiple’ malware samples likely targeting education orgs Criminals are using game-related applications to infect Windows systems with a malicious software framework called Winos4.0 that gives the attackers full control over compromised machines.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Don’t open that ‘copyright infringement’ email attachment – it’s an infostealer
Curiosity gives crims access to wallets and passwords Organizations should be on the lookout for bogus copyright infringement emails as they might be the latest ploy by cybercriminals to steal their data.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Cisco scores a perfect CVSS 10 with critical flaw in its wireless system
Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul doesn’t live up to its name Cisco is issuing a critical alert notice about a flaw that makes its so-called Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul systems easy to subvert.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Officials warn of Russia’s tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict
10,000 of Kim Jong Un’s soldiers believed to be headed for front line The EU has joined US and South Korean officials in expressing concern over a Russian transfer of technology to North Korea in return for military assistance against…
Cybercrooks are targeting Bengal cat lovers in Australia for some reason
In case today’s news cycle wasn’t shocking enough, here’s a gem from Sophos Fresh from a series of serious reports detailing its five-year battle with Chinese cyberattackers, Sophos has dropped a curious story about users of a popular infostealer-cum-RAT targeting…