Re-selling info from an earlier breach? Probably. But which one? AT&T is investigating claims that millions of its customers’ data are listed for sale on a cybercrime forum in what appears to be a re-release from an earlier hack.… This…
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Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption
Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices.… This article…
Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’
Plus: Plankey’s confirmation process ‘temporarily delayed’ Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused…
BidenCash busted as Feds nuke stolen credit card bazaar
Dark web crime platform raked in $17M+ over three years of operation Uncle Sam has seized 145 domains tied to BidenCash, the notorious dark web market that trafficked in more than 15 million stolen credit cards.… This article has been…
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user
Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks Sophos thinks a single person or group called “ischhfd83” is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to…
HMRC: Crooks broke into 100k accounts, stole £43M from British taxpayer in late 2024
It’s definitely not a cyberattack though! Really! The UK’s tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.… This article has been indexed from The…
AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010 A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers’ attempts on its life.… This article has…
China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help
The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on…
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn’t saying why
To make matters worse, IBM’s security software has a critical vuln caused by exposed password IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes
Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion campaigns – including…
Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack
Drones are not enough Following a daring drone attack on Russian airfields, Ukrainian military intelligence has reportedly also hacked the servers of Tupolev, the Kremlin’s strategic bomber maker.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering
Literally adding insult to injury Kettering Health patients who had chemotherapy sessions and pre-surgery appointments canceled due to a ransomware attack in May now have to deal with the painful prospect that their personal info may have been leaked online.……
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce’s Data Loader that…
Crims stole 40,000 people’s data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises
Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.… This article has been…
UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict
Government details latest initiative following announcement last week Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) says “there are pockets of excellence” but improvements must be made to ensure the country’s…
Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones
Why? There’s a war in Europe, Finland has a belligerent neighbor, and cyber is a settled field Interview Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he’s moving…
‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
CEO of India’s KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed…
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities…
You say Cozy Bear, I say Midnight Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, APT29 …
Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and pals promise clarity on cybercrew naming, deliver alias salad instead Opinion Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to “bring clarity to threat-actor naming.”… This article has…
Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild
TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day.… This article has been…