Jeez, not now, Xi. Can’t you see we’ve got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and … The Chinese government’s Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US city’s emergency services…
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US Air Force’s new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks
Officer pay, limited command duties and writing ‘code for your country’ Skilled IT professionals considering a career change have a new option, as the US Air Force is reintroducing warrant officer ranks exclusively “within the cyber and information technology professions.” ……
Prudential Financial finds cybercrims lurking inside its IT systems
Some company admin and customers data exposed, but bad guys were there for ‘only’ a day Prudential Financial, the second largest life insurance company in the US and eight largest worldwide, is dealing with a digital break-in that exposed some…
Romanian hospital ransomware crisis attributed to third-party breach
Emergency impacting more than 100 facilities appears to be caused by incident at software provider The Romanian national cybersecurity agency (DNSC) has pinned the outbreak of ransomware cases across the country’s hospitals to an incident at a service provider.… This…
Southern Water cyberattack expected to hit hundreds of thousands of customers
The company also curiously disappears from Black Basta leak site UK utilities giant Southern Water admits between 5 and 10 percent of its customers have had their data stolen during a January cyberattack.… This article has been indexed from The…
Bumblebee malware wakes from hibernation, forgets what year it is, attacks with macros
Trying to break in with malicious Word documents? How very 2015 of you The Bumblebee malware loader seemingly vanished from the internet last October, but it’s back and – oddly – relying on a vintage vector to try and gain…
Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam
$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds One hundred and fifty people who worked for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have been investigated – and some prosecuted – for…
Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed ’em
SAP, Adobe, Intel, AMD also issue fixes as well as Google for Android Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 73 security holes in this February’s Patch Tuesday, and you better get moving because two of the vulnerabilities are under active attack.… This…
Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
‘You don’t have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network’ El Reg told as patches emerge A single packet can exhaust the processing capacity of a vulnerable DNS server, effectively disabling the machine, by exploiting a 20-plus-year-old…
Just one bad DNS packet can bring down a public DNSSEC server
‘You don’t have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network’ El Reg told as patches emerge A 20-plus-year-old security vulnerability in the design of DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) could allow a single DNS packet to…
QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles
Two new flaws, one zero-day, countless different patches, but everything’s fine! Network-attached storage (NAS) specialist QNAP has disclosed and released fixes for two new vulnerabilities, one of them a zero-day discovered in early November.… This article has been indexed from…
ALPHV blackmails Canadian pipeline after ‘stealing 190GB of vital info’
Gang still going after critical infrastructure because it’s, you know, critical Canada’s Trans-Northern Pipelines has allegedly been infiltrated by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware crew, which claims to have stolen 190 GB of data from the oil distributor.… This article has been…
ALPHV blackmails Canadian pipeline and claims it stole 190GB of vital info
Gang going after critical infrastructure because it’s…you know Canada’s Trans-Northern Pipelines has allegedly been breached by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware crew, which claims to have stolen 190 GB of data from the oil distributor.… This article has been indexed from The…
Crooks hook hundreds of exec accounts after phishing in Azure C-suite pond
Plenty of successful attacks observed with dangerous follow-on activity The number of senior business executives stymied by an ongoing phishing campaign continues to rise with cybercriminals registering hundreds of cloud account takeovers (ATOs) since spinning it up in November.… This…
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn’t its problem to solve
Leaves it to carriers, promoting a complaint to Irish data cops from Big Tech’s bête noire Meta has acknowledged that phone number reuse that allows takeovers of its accounts “is a concern,” but the ad biz insists the issue doesn’t…
Infosys subsidiary named as source of Bank of America data leak
Looks like LockBit took a swipe at an outsourced life insurance application Indian tech services giant Infosys has been named as the source of a data leak suffered by the Bank of America.… This article has been indexed from The…
Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool
Great news for victims of gang that hit the British Library in October Some smart folks have found a way to automatically unscramble documents encrypted by the Rhysida ransomware, and used that know-how to produce and release a handy recovery…
FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen
Yep, cell carriers didn’t have to do this before The FCC’s updated reporting requirements mean telcos in America will have just seven days to officially disclose that a criminal has broken into their systems.… This article has been indexed from…
Dutch insurers demand nudes from breast cancer patients despite ban
No photos? No, second operation Dutch health insurers are reportedly forcing breast cancer patients to submit photos of their breasts prior to reconstructive surgery despite a government ban on precisely that.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your PII is stolen
Yep, cell carriers didn’t have to do this before The US Federal Communications Commission’s updated reporting requirements mean telecos will have just seven days to officially disclose that a criminal has broken into their systems.… This article has been indexed…