OFAC, Office of the Treasury Secretary feared hit in data-snarfing swoop Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department’s workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations and individuals.… This article has been indexed…
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Apple offers to settle ‘snooping Siri’ lawsuit for an utterly incredible $95M
Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent…
Apple agrees to settle Siri-snooping lawsuit for $95M
Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent…
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
2024’s Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Opinion Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do you really want to know that? Didn’t think so.……
US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump’s AT&T call logs arrested
Brings the arrest count related to the Snowflake hacks to 3 A US Army soldier has been arrested in Texas after being indicted on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information. … This article has been indexed from…
US Treasury Department outs the blast radius of BeyondTrust’s key leak
Data pilfered as miscreants roamed affected workstations The US Department of the Treasury has admitted that miscreants were in its systems, accessing documents in what has been called a “major incident.”… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
China’s cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024
From targeted espionage to pre-positioning – not that they are mutually exclusive The Chinese government’s intrusions into America’s telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks this year appears to signal a shift from cyberspying as usual to prepping for destructive attacks.……
More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
The intrusions allowed Beijing to ‘geolocate millions of individuals’ AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies confirmed that Chinese government-backed snoops accessed portions of their systems earlier this year, while the White House added another, yet-unnamed telecommunications company to the list of…
It’s only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
‘The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering’ Interview Now that criminals have realized there’s no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes – it’s much cheaper and easier to steal credentials and then jailbreak…
How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub’s meteoric rise
Cut off one head, two more grow back in its place RansomHub, the ransomware collective that emerged earlier this year, quickly gained momentum, outpacing its criminal colleagues and hitting its victims especially hard. The group named and shamed hundreds of…
Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list
Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas The trickle of known issues with Windows 11 24H2 has continued with a new one just in time for festive season: installed the operating system using…
Former NSA cyberspy’s not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights
Rob Joyce explains how it’s done Video In 2018, Rob Joyce, then Donald Trump’s White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, gave a surprise talk at the legendary hacking conference Shmoocon about his hobby.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’
Botnet’s operators ‘driven by similar interests as that of the Chinese state’ After the Mozi botnet mysteriously disappeared last year, a new and seemingly more powerful botnet, Androxgh0st, rose from its ashes and has quickly become a major threat to…
What do ransomware and Jesus have in common? A birth month and an unwillingness to die
35 years since AIDS first borked a PC and we’re still no closer to a solution Feature Your Christmas holidays looked quite different in the ’80s to how they do today. While some will remember what it was like to…
One third of adults can’t delete device data
Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a draw, survey finds The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that many adults don’t know how to wipe their old devices, and a worrying number of young people just…
‘That’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ takes on a darker tone when malware’s involved
Mummy, where do zero days come from? Opinion One of the charms of coding is that malice can be indistinguishable from incompetence. Last week’s Who, Me? story about financial transfer test software running amok is a case in point.… This…
Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, ‘did it for the money’
Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August An alleged LockBit ransomware developer is in custody in Israel and awaiting extradition to the United States.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Suspected LockBit dev,…
UK ICO not happy with Google’s plans to allow device fingerprinting
Also, Ascension notifies 5.6M victims, Krispy Kreme bandits come forward, LockBit 4.0 released, and more in brief Google has announced plans to allow its business customers to begin “fingerprinting” users next year, and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) isn’t…
Infosec experts divided on AI’s potential to assist red teams
Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for…
Don’t fall for a mail asking for rapid Docusign action – it may be an Azure account hijack phish
Recent campaign targeted 20,000 folk across UK and Europe with this tactic, Unit 42 warns Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried…