And it’s especially dangerous because the code works A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and contacts, and hijacks users’ WhatsApp accounts.… This…
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Palo Alto’s new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs
SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M Security vendor Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership, saying it will move “key internal workloads” onto the Chocolate Factory’s infrastructure. The outfit also claims…
Spy turned startup CEO: ‘The WannaCry of AI will happen’
Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year Interview “In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day,” Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said.… This article has been indexed from…
Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture
Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world’s music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify…
Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim
Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that…
Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency
On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still…
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
SK Telecom’s epic infosec faill will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea’s government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.……
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan
PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! APAC in Brief Google and Apple last week started to allow developers of mobile applications to distribute their wares through…
Google sends Dark Web Report to its dead services graveyard
PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more Infosec In Brief Google will soon end its “Dark Web Report”, an email service that alerts users when their personal information…
NIST tried to pull the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around…
ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US
Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as “a ruthless terrorist organization” faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions…
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack
Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls WatchGuard is in emergency patch mode after confirming that a critical remote code execution flaw in its Firebox firewalls is under active attack.… This article has been…
Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo
Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people The University of Sydney is ringing around thousands of current and former staff and students after admitting attackers helped themselves to historical personal data stashed inside one of its online…
HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10
Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform Hewlett Packard Enterprise has told customers to drop whatever they’re doing and patch OneView after admitting a maximum-severity bug could let attackers run code on the management platform…
Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky
Officials admit ‘there certainly has been a hack,’ but refuse to confirm China link or data theft The UK’s Foreign Office is investigating a confirmed cyberattack it learned about in October, senior ministers say.… This article has been indexed from…
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits
Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health Young Brits are souring on the internet, with increasing numbers seeing it as damaging to society and their mental health, according to latest research…
AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin
Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence Sponsored Post AI is moving from experimentation to everyday use inside the enterprise. That shift brings new opportunities, but it also changes the security equation. Attacks are becoming faster…
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET
Beijing wants to ‘seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace’ Chinese authorities on Thursday certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a vast research network that Beijing hopes will propel the country to the forefront of networking…
Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs
Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail Even Amazon isn’t immune to North Korean scammers who try to score remote jobs at tech companies so they can funnel their wages to Kim Jong Un’s coffers.… This article has been…
Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin
Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date Web browsers for desktop and mobile devices tend to receive regular security updates, but that often isn’t the case for those that reside within game consoles, televisions, e-readers,…