Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK’s defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain’s armed forces.… This article has been indexed…
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Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news
Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters’ tricks Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn’t cooperate, police opted for cuffs Dutch police have arrested a man for “computer hacking” after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn’t hand…
You probably can’t trust your password manager if it’s compromised
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.… This…
Open source registries don’t have enough money to implement basic security
Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money fosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it’s not just the bandwidth costs that are…
Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface
High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox Google has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser’s first reported zero-day of 2026.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
US appears open to reversing some China tech bans
PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more Asia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.… This article has been indexed from The…
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ
PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google’s big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more Infosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to…
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024
As if admins haven’t had enough to do this week Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses…
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper
Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed – but biz insists passwords and call data untouched The Netherlands’ largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.… This…
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats
Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users’ API keys, emails, other sensitive data
Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users’ API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even…
Who’s the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too
As if snooping on your workers wasn’t bad enough Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into…
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Flaw abused ”in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals’ Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an “extremely sophisticated attack” against targeted individuals.… This article has been indexed…
Supply chain attacks now fuel a ‘self-reinforcing’ cybercrime economy
Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a “self-reinforcing” ecosystem, researchers say.… This article has been…
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend
Whoever gets it will steer UK department’s IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than £4.6 billion in spending…
Google: China’s APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs
Meanwhile, IP-stealing ‘distillation attacks’ on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America’s critical infrastructure used Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.… This article…
Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust
Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices Amid its ongoing promotion of AI’s wonders, Microsoft has warned customers it has found many instances of…
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers
Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you’ve been and they’re going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions that allegedly exfiltrate browsing history data for an estimated…
Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn
The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering If you’ve seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to “create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you…