Techno-crooks greeted by grinning Putin after landing At least two Russian cybercriminals are among those being returned to their motherland as part of a multinational prisoner exchange deal announced Thursday.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
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Too late now for canary updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike
That horse has not just bolted, it’s trampled all over kernel space CrowdStrike, after suggesting canary testing as a way to ensure it avoids future blunders leading to global computer outages, has been sued in federal court by investors for…
How to counter adversarial AI
Using Precision AI to stop cyber threats in real time Sponsored Hackers and cyber criminals are busy finding new ways of using AI to launch attacks on businesses and organisations often unprepared to deal with the speed, scale and sophistication…
FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can’t touch election systems
PSA comes amid multiple IT services crises in recent days US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country’s voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as the next presidential election…
Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust’s TLS certificates
Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority Mozilla is following in Google Chrome’s footsteps in officially distrusting Entrust as a root certificate authority (CA) following what it says was a protracted period of compliance failures.… This…
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency
Meanwhile, US apparently considers further AI hardware sanctions Germany’s government has named China-controlled actors as the perpetrators of a 2021 cyber attack on the Federal Office of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) – the official mapping agency.… This article has been…
Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250+ hospitals
Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has “significantly reduced” the org’s ability to take, test, and distribute blood.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250 hospitals
Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has “significantly reduced” the org’s ability to take, test, and distribute blood.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
More than 83K certs from nearly 7K DigiCert customers must be swapped out now
Some ‘exceptional circumstances’ will be given a minor extension as lawsuits start to fly As the DigiCert drama continues, we now have a better idea of the size and scope of the problem – with the organization’s infosec boss admitting…
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+
Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims Dozens of Russia-affiliated criminals are right now trying to wrest control of web domains by exploiting weak DNS services.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article:…
Chrome adopts app-bound encryption to stymie cookie-stealing malware
Windows users now get macOS-grade secret security Google says it’s enhancing the security of sensitive data managed by Chrome for Windows users to fight the scourge of infostealer malware targeting cookies.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Embedding AI security from the get go
Watch this Palo Alto Networks keynote to understand the importance of visibility, control and governance in AI application and service development Sponsored Post The dawn of artificial intelligence is upon us, but its development has only just begun.… This article…
Five months after takedown, LockBit is a shadow of its former self
An unprecedented period for an unparalleled force in cybercrime Feature For roughly two years, LockBit’s ransomware operation was by far the most prolific of its kind, until the fateful events of February. After claiming thousands of victims, extorting hundreds of…
‘Error’ in Microsoft’s DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage
A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation Do you have problems configuring Microsoft’s Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it’s using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday’s Azure instability.… This article has been…
UK Electoral Commission slapped for basic cybersecurity fails
It took 13 months to notice 40 million voters’ data was compromised The UK’s Electoral Commission has received a formal slap on the wrist for a litany of security failings that led to the theft of personal data belonging to…
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder
For the want of an underscore DigiCert has given some unlucky customers 24 hours to replace their SSL/TLS security certificates it previously issued them – due to a five-year-old blunder in its backend software.… This article has been indexed from…
Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft’s legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses
Oh, Boies, here we go again Delta Air Lines lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to the CrowdStrike outage earlier this month – and it has hired a high-powered law firm to claw some of those lost funds back,…
‘LockBit of phishing’ EvilProxy used in more than a million attacks every month
Leaves a trail of ransomware infections, data theft, business email compromise in its wake Insight The developers of EvilProxy – a phishing kit dubbed the “LockBit of phishing” – have produced guides on using legitimate Cloudflare services to disguise malicious…
Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly make-me-admin ESXi vulnerability
Get those patches applied – all the big dogs are abusing it Do you have your VMware ESXi hypervisor joined to Active Directory? Well, the latest news from Microsoft serves as a reminder that you might not want to do…
Proofpoint phishing palaver plagues millions with ‘perfectly spoofed’ emails from IBM, Nike, Disney, others
They DKIM here, they DKIM there A huge phishing campaign exploited a security blind-spot in Proofpoint’s email filtering systems to send an average of three million “perfectly spoofed” messages a day purporting to be from Disney, IBM, Nike, Best Buy,…