Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patch Tuesday Clear your Microsoft system administrator’s diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday is a doozy, with at least two bugs…
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Critical Windows licensing bugs, plus two others under attack, top Patch Tuesday
Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patch Tuesday Clear your Microsoft system administrator’s diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday is a doozy, with at least two bugs…
FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots
RT News snarks back after it’s accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin The FBI and cybersecurity agencies in Canada and the Netherlands say they have taken down an almost 1,000-strong Twitter bot farm set up by Russian state-run RT…
Elexon’s Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate
Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due Certificate Watch Demonstrating that Microsoft is not alone in its inability to keep track of certificates is UK power market biz Elexon.… This article has been…
Evolve Bank & Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6 million people’s data
Making cyberattack among the largest ever recorded in finance industry Evolve Bank & Trust says the data of more than 7.6 million customers was stolen during the LockBit break-in in late May, per a fresh filing with Maine’s attorney general.……
Houthi rebels are operating their own GuardZoo spyware
Fairly ‘low budget’, unsophisticated malware, say researchers, but it can collect the same data as Pegasus Interview When it comes to surveillance malware, sophisticated spyware with complex capabilities tends to hog the limelight – for example NSO Group’s Pegasus, which…
Microsoft China staff can’t log on with an Android, so Redmond buys them iThings
Google’s absence creates software distribution issues not even mighty Microsoft can handle Microsoft China will provide staff with Apple devices so they can log on to the software giant’s systems.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Scammers double-scam victims by offering to help recover from scams
Scum keep databases of the people they’ve already skimmed Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has warned that scammers are targeting scam victims with fake offers to help them recover from scams.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
China’s APT40 gang is ready to attack vulns within hours or days of public release
Lax patching and vulnerable small biz kit make life easy for Beijing’s secret-stealers Law enforcement agencies from eight nations, led by Australia, have issued an advisory that details the tradecraft used by China-aligned threat actor APT40 – aka Kryptonite Panda,…
China’s APT40 gang is ready to attack vulns within hours or days of public release.
Lax patching and vulnerable small biz kit make life easy for Beijing’s secret-stealers Law enforcement agencies from eight nations, led by Australia, have issued an advisory that details the tradecraft used by China-aligned threat actor APT40 – aka Kryptonite Panda,…
Microsoft forgets about SwiftKey’s support site
Injecting Copilot branding will not make TLS certificates auto-renew Another Microsoft certificate has expired, leaving SwiftKey users that are seeking support faced with an alarming certificate error.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished
Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims’ cryptography, the company confirmed today.… This article has been indexed…
Navigating Europe’s digital identity crossroads
How to get ready for the future of digital identity in the European Union from eIDAS 1.0 to eIDAS 2.0 and beyond Partner Content : Opening a bank account, making or receiving a payment, instructing an accountant or booking a…
Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts
Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world…
Not-so-OpenAI allegedly never bothered to report 2023 data breach
Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more security in brief It’s been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023…
A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some investors
Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance of nearly…
Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia ‘more effectively’ than Putin
Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that’s the way the Cook, he crumbles Updated At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin’s internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them…
Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals
Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London’s biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin’s ransomware attack hit…
Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler
There’s also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months.… This…
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it’s not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.… This article has…