Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims’…
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Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web
Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy Google’s Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular…
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor – then came the data leak
Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn’t ‘material,’ but then stolen data was published Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.……
RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere
Infosec pros descend on San Francisco kettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she’s expecting agentic AI to be on everyone’s lips – at least those who…
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
The era of reliability begins… right after this out-of-band patch Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope
Ukraine’s battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience…
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
Plus: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks ‘Why Do We Have Your Information?’ And more! Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts…
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi’s vulnerability claims are too much Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he’s…
UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias
Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a…
Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks
Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per…
Jaguar Land Rover’s cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns
Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insurance The UK’s cyber watchdog has warned that the government’s £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for…
Starmer’s digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor
Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Opinion Last week’s UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a…
While you’re here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?
He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for a meddling security team’s fear of USB On Call Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art…
Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug
Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who’s next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims’ SharePoint servers, the US government warned.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to
Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety It turns out you won’t be limited to Google-verified apps an developers on Android after all. In the face of sustained community dissatisfaction with its developer verification requirement,…
Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack
Iran-linked attackers wiped employees’ devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week’s cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.… This article has been indexed from The…
Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents
Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate…
State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by “multiple” spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.… This article…
Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure
Interlock’s post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.… This article…
North Korea’s 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un
Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea’s fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies…