17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will ‘relentlessly pursue’ miscreants around the globe Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las Vegas with…
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UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM cyberattack probe
17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will ‘relentlessly pursue’ miscreants around the globe Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las Vegas with…
CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop – but there’s a workaround Updated An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows globally.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear
Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday Kettle If you’re an IT administrator with Windows boxes on your network, Friday can’t have been a lot of fun. What’s likely millions of systems were or still are stuck in…
CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop Breaking An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows…
North Korea likely behind takedown of Indian crypto exchange WazirX
Firm halts trades after seeing $230 million disappear Indian crypto exchange WazirX has revealed it lost virtual assets valued at over $230 million after a cyber attack that has since been linked to North Korea.… This article has been indexed…
Beijing’s attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China
Run by the NSA, the FBI, and Five Eyes nations, who fooled infosec researchers, apparently China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact…
Judge mostly drags SEC’s lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin
Russia-invaded software biz ‘grateful for the support we have received’ A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America’s financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and…
Kaspersky challenges US government to put up or shut up about Kremlin ties
Stick an independent probe in our software, you won’t find any Putin.DLL backdoor Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products – by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not backdoored by…
Russia’s FIN7 is peddling its EDR-nerfing malware to ransomware gangs
Major vendors’ products scuppered by novel techniques Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Maximum-severity Cisco vulnerability allows attackers to change admin passwords
You’re going to want to patch this one Cisco just dropped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to change the password of any user, including admins.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Firms skip security reviews of major app updates about half the time
Complicated, costly, time-consuming – pick three Cyber security workers only review major updates to software applications only 54 percent of the time, according to a poll of tech managers.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Release the hounds! Securing datacenters may soon need sniffer dogs
Nothing else can detect attackers with implants designed to foil physical security Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips that have the…
Merged Exabeam and LogRhythm cut jobs, face lawsuit
Unconfirmed reports suggest 30 percent reduction in headcount Exabeam and LogRhythm – a pair of cyber security firms – finalized their merger on Wednesday, an occasion The Register understands was marked by swift job cuts and shareholder action to investigate…
Kaspersky gives US customers six months of free updates as a parting gift
So long, farewell, do svidaniya, goodbye Embattled Russian infosec shop Kaspersky is giving US customers six months of security updates for free as a parting gift as Uncle Sam kicks the antivirus maker out of the American market.… This article…
Ransomware continues to pile on costs for critical infrastructure victims
Millions more spent without any improvement in recovery times Costs associated with ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations skyrocketed in the past year.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Ransomware…
London council accuses watchdog of ‘exaggerating’ danger of 2020 raid on residents’ data
You escaped a big fat fine! Take the win and run, won’t you? London’s inner city district of Hackney says the UK’s data protection watchdog has misunderstood and “exaggerated” details surrounding a ransomware attack on its systems in 2020.… This…
Iran’s MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor
India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it’s used to target Israeli organizations.… This article has been indexed…
Cyber-crime super-crew Scattered Spider falls in love with RansomHub and Qilin
Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups.… This article has been indexed from The…
Scattered Spider’s fave new ransomware tools are RansomHub and Qilin
Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups.… This article has been indexed from The…