The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising CISA is urging companies with operational technology environments to set a better cybersecurity posture, and not just by adopting some new best practices and purchasing some new…
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BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist
Turkish exchange is the latest victim of a recent spate of major crypto thefts Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk is halting all deposits and withdrawals amid fears that blockchain bandits succeeded in significantly compromising its hot wallets.… This article has been…
Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama
Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court’s creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of…
Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms
Nearly 100,000 records allegedly up for sale after apparent breach at booking system Italy’s digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal’s claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine.… This article has been indexed…
Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack
Intruders accessed important systems but tells customers their data is safe A UK-based multinational that provides tech stock availability tools is telling customers that its website outage is due to a cyber attack.… This article has been indexed from The…
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?
Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience? Register debate series The UK government’s five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each year—nearly…
Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts
If there’s smoke? Fortinet warned customers about a critical FortiSIEM bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands, and said working exploit code for the flaw has been found in the wild.… This article has been indexed…
Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago
CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a “better time” when this was all fields and kids…
UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you
Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters’ access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as “an excellent opportunity for policing.” Privacy campaigners diagree.……
Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor
Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK’s Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector’s only viable option
For now at least – even though government buying can improve, open-source is not all its cracked up to be Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government’s money it voraciously consumes –…
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity protocol vulnerabilities,” addressed in the latest version, saying…
Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul’s 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the…
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion
Tells court ‘What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct’ Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called “stablecoin” Terra USD and now faces time in jail.… This…
Crypto crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion
Tells court ‘What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct’ Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called “stablecoin” Terra USD and now faces time in jail.… This…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday baker’s dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE
None under active exploit…yet Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is listed as being publicly known.… This article has been indexed from…
Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data
And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise’s network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the extortionists claimed that they pilfered “all of [the…
Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office blamed on ‘cyber incident’
Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day The Pennsylvania’s Office of Attorney General (OAG) is blaming a digital blackout of its services on a “cyber incident.”… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown
US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang – but the crooks remain at large In a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they’ve “disrupted” the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing…
Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating
Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel Prolific cybercrime collectives Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ appear to have come together in a new Telegram channel that shares news of their exploits.……