Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth Australian police have arrested a man after finding he imported what appear to be tower PC cases that were full of illicit drugs.… This article has been indexed from The…
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Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.… This article has been indexed from…
Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft
Plus a free micropatch until Redmond fixes the flaw There’s a Windows Themes spoofing zero-day bug on the loose that allows attackers to steal people’s NTLM credentials.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info
If you’re gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks A disgruntled ex-Disney employee has been arrested and charged with hacking his former employer’s systems to alter restaurant menus with potentially deadly consequences. … This…
Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, while removing allergen info
If you’re gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks A disgruntled ex-Disney employee has been arrested and charged with hacking his former employer’s systems to alter restaurant menus with potentially deadly consequences. … This…
Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive
The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia’s foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and the spies are using a novel…
Beijing claims it’s found ‘underwater lighthouses’ that its foes use for espionage
Release the Kraken! China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article:…
Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware
Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer. … This article has…
Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code
‘It was like watching a robot going rogue’ says researcher OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model’s built-in security guardrails and…
How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding
‘It was like watching a robot going rogue’ says researcher OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model’s built-in security guardrails and…
Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting
US also charges an alleged Redline dev, no mention of an arrest International law enforcement officials have arrested two individuals and charged another in connection with the use and distribution of the Redline and Meta infostealer malware strains.… This article…
The story behind the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act
Health care breaches lead to legislation Partner Content Breaches breed regulation; which hopefully in turn breeds meaningful change.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: The story behind the Health Infrastructure Security and…
Admins better Spring into action over latest critical open source vuln
Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem If you’re running an application built using the Spring development framework, now is a good time to check it’s fully updated – a new, critical-severity vulnerability has just been disclosed.… This…
Merde! Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
It’s not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava.……
Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again
Only took ’em a year to dish up some scary travel advice, and a Secure Innovation … Placemat? Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes nations have delivered on a promise to offer tech startups more guidance on how to…
Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries
GCHQ job ads seek top talent with bottom-end pay packets While the wages paid by governments seldom match those available in the private sector, it appears that the UK’s intelligence, security and cyber agency is a long way short of…
JPMorgan Chase sues scammers following viral ‘infinite money glitch’
ATMs paid customers thousands … and now the bank wants its money back JPMorgan Chase has begun suing fraudsters who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from the bank’s ATMs after a check fraud glitch went viral on social media.… This…
Feds investigate China’s Salt Typhoon amid campaign phone hacks
‘They’re taunting us,’ investigator says and it looks like it’s working The feds are investigating Chinese government-linked cyberspies breaking into the infrastructure of US telecom companies, as reports suggest Salt Typhoon – the same crew believed to be behind those…
Brazen crims selling stolen credit cards on Meta’s Threads
The platform ‘continues to take action’ against illegal posts, we’re told Exclusive Brazen crooks are selling people’s pilfered financial information on Meta’s Threads, in some cases posting full credit card details, plus stolen credentials, alongside images of the cards themselves.……
Delta officially launches lawyers at $500M CrowdStrike problem
Legal action comes months after alleging negligence by Falcon vendor Delta Air Lines is suing CrowdStrike in a bid to recover the circa $500 million in estimated lost revenue months after the cybersecurity company “caused” an infamous global IT outage.……