Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims’ cryptography, the company confirmed today.… This article has been indexed…
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Navigating Europe’s digital identity crossroads
How to get ready for the future of digital identity in the European Union from eIDAS 1.0 to eIDAS 2.0 and beyond Partner Content : Opening a bank account, making or receiving a payment, instructing an accountant or booking a…
Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts
Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world…
Not-so-OpenAI allegedly never bothered to report 2023 data breach
Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more security in brief It’s been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023…
A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some investors
Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance of nearly…
Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia ‘more effectively’ than Putin
Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that’s the way the Cook, he crumbles Updated At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin’s internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them…
Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals
Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London’s biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin’s ransomware attack hit…
Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler
There’s also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months.… This…
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it’s not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.… This article has…
Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown
Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn’t touch China Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike.… This article has been…
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country’s services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption…
Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef
Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied Keen meatheads better hope they haven’t angered any cybersecurity folk before allowing their Traeger grills to update because a new high-severity vulnerability could be used…
Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise The number of financial institutions caught up in the ransomware attack on Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially…
Affirm admits customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise The number of financial institutions caught up in the ransomware attack on Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially…
Affirm admits customer info pwned in ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise The number of financial institutions hit by the breach at Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially affected.… This…
‘Almost every Apple device’ vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack
Dependency manager used in millions of apps leaves a bitter taste CocoaPods, an open-source dependency manager used in over three million applications coded in Swift and Objective-C, left thousands of packages exposed and ready for takeover for nearly a decade…
Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor’s update systems to spew malware
Notorious ‘Andariel’ crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack A South Korean ERP vendor’s product update server has been attacked and used to deliver malware instead of product updates, according to local infosec outfit AhnLab.… This article…
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts roughly 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) and should upgrade to the latest version.… This article has been…
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts around 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) and should upgrade to the latest version.… This article has been…
Juniper Networks flings out emergency patches for perfect 10 router vuln
Get ’em while they’re hot A critical vulnerability affecting Juniper Networks routers forced the vendor to issue emergency patches last week, and users are advised to apply them as soon as possible.… This article has been indexed from The Register…