AT&T and Verizon refused to hand over the security assessments, says Cantwell US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has demanded that Google-owned incident response firm Mandiant hand over the Salt Typhoon-related security assessments of AT&T and Verizon that, according to the…
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Freelance dev shop Toptal caught serving malware after GitHub account break-in
Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.… This article has been indexed from The…
Microsoft admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty
Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin Microsoft says it “cannot guarantee” data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider…
Advisor to Brit tech contractors Qdos confirms client data leak
Policy management not affected, but some personal data may have been snaffled Business insurance and employment status specialist Qdos has confirmed that an intruder has stolen some customers personal data, according to a communication to tech contractors that was seen…
DNS security is important but DNSSEC may be a failed experiment
Nobody thinks of running a website without HTTPs. Safer DNS still seems optional Systems Approach Last week I turned on DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) for the systemsapproach.org domain. No need to applaud; I was just trying to get…
Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years
Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home – helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers – has been sentenced to eight and…
Euro healthcare giant AMEOS Group shuts down IT systems after mystery attack
Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor The AMEOS Group, which runs over 100 hospitals across Europe, has shut down its entire network after crims busted in.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
No login? No problem: Cisco ISE flaw gave root access before fix arrived, say researchers
Shadowserver claims miscreants were already poking at a critical hole in early July, long before Switchzilla patched it Threat actors have actively exploited a newly patched vulnerability in Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE) software since early July, weeks before the…
So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags
Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won’t work Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they’ve developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections
Let the games begin Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections
Coyote malware abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation to hunt banking creds
Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users’ financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.… This article has been indexed…
The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over
Palantir, data brokers, and judicial overreach are all on the horizon, executive director Cindy Cohn warns Interview In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging…
Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped
Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS ‘security theater’ The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user’s home directory and delete all their AWS resources.… This article…
Eau no! Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu
French fashion house dishes out notices after hackers raided a client database – ShinyHunters suspected Fashion house Dior has begun dropping data breach notices after cybercrooks with a taste for high-end targets made off with customer data.… This article has…
Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware
The “is” package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers The popular npm package “is” was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were infected with…
IRL Com recruits teens for real-life stabbings, shootings, FBI warns
From scams to violence, the crimes extend beyond the digital realm A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens for contract shootings, kidnappings, and other real-life violent crimes poses a growing threat to youth, according to the…
Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall
No screenshots for you! In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Nothing to see…
Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks
US DOE among breached government agencies More than 400 organizations have been compromised in the Microsoft SharePoint attack, according to Eye Security, which initially sounded the alarm on the mass exploitation last Friday, even before Redmond confirmed the critical vulnerabilities.……
VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches
Despite pledging help for those who don’t sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support Exclusive Some customers of Broadcom’s VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack.… This article has…
Three questions you should always be able to answer about your security environment
All security questions are hard to answer, but these three are non-negotiable Partner content We’ve all seen those seemingly straightforward security questions that snowball into multi-day research projects across dozens of consoles, spreadsheets, and manual queries. The reality is that…