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…
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Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown
Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn’t touch China Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike.… This article has been…
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country’s services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption…
Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef
Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied Keen meatheads better hope they haven’t angered any cybersecurity folk before allowing their Traeger grills to update because a new high-severity vulnerability could be used…
Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise The number of financial institutions caught up in the ransomware attack on Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially…
Affirm admits customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise The number of financial institutions caught up in the ransomware attack on Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially…
Affirm admits customer info pwned in ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise The number of financial institutions hit by the breach at Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially affected.… This…
‘Almost every Apple device’ vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack
Dependency manager used in millions of apps leaves a bitter taste CocoaPods, an open-source dependency manager used in over three million applications coded in Swift and Objective-C, left thousands of packages exposed and ready for takeover for nearly a decade…
Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor’s update systems to spew malware
Notorious ‘Andariel’ crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack A South Korean ERP vendor’s product update server has been attacked and used to deliver malware instead of product updates, according to local infosec outfit AhnLab.… This article…
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts roughly 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) and should upgrade to the latest version.… This article has been…
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts around 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) and should upgrade to the latest version.… This article has been…
Juniper Networks flings out emergency patches for perfect 10 router vuln
Get ’em while they’re hot A critical vulnerability affecting Juniper Networks routers forced the vendor to issue emergency patches last week, and users are advised to apply them as soon as possible.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Poyfill.io claims reveal new cracks in supply chain, but how deep do they go?
There will always be bad actors in the system. We can always learn from the drama they create Opinion Libraries. Hushed temples to the civilizing power of knowledge, or launchpads of global destruction? Yep, another word tech has borrowed and…
CISA director: US is ‘not afraid’ to shout about Big Tech’s security failings
Jen Easterly hopes CSRB’s Microsoft report won’t impede future private sector collaboration CISA director Jen Easterly says the Cybersecurity Safety Review Board (CSRB) “is not afraid to say when something is amiss” in response to questions about fears around private…
Police allege ‘evil twin’ of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger’s credentials
Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) has charged a man with running a fake Wi-Fi networks on at least one commercial flight and using it to…
Indonesian government didn’t have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option
President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has ordered an audit of government datacenters after it was revealed that most of the data they store is not backed up.… This article has been…
Microsoft tells yet more customers their emails have been stolen
Plus: US auto dealers still offline; Conti coders sanction; Rabbit R1 hardcoded API keys; and more security in brief It took a while, but Microsoft has told customers that the Russian criminals who compromised its systems earlier this year made…
CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust?
So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open source projects and found that more than half contain code written in…
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network
Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? TeamViewer says it was Russian intelligence that broke into its systems this week.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
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