Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.… This article has been indexed from…
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Putin really wants Trump back in the White House
US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls’ latest antics to Make America Grate Again Russia really wants Donald Trump to be the next US President, judging by reports from American government agencies and now Microsoft’s threat intelligence team.… This article…
LockBit boasts of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
Add ‘ransomware’ to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).… This article has been indexed from…
Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war
Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies detonating across the country, leaving at least a dozen dead.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm’s network via legacy IT
Getting sloppy, Xi Exclusive Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm’s network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal’s default credentials on an IBM AIX server.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform
Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the suspect they cuffed last…
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared
‘Lives will be lost’ as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Feature As Russian special forces push more overtly into online operations, network defenders should be on the hunt for digital intruders looking to carry out cyberattacks that end…
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged a man with creating and administering an app named Ghost that was allegedly…
WhatsApp fix to make View Once chats actually disappear is beaten in less than a week
View Forever, more like it, as Meta’s privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking A fix deployed by Meta to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once messages – photos, videos, and voice recordings…
VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation
Bug reports made in China Broadcom has emitted a pair of patches for vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that a miscreant with network access to the software could exploit to completely commandeer a system. This also affects Cloud Foundation.… This…
VMware patches over remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation
Bug reports made in China Broadcom has emitted a pair of patches for vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that a miscreant with network access to the software could exploit to completely commandeer a system. This also affects Cloud Foundation.… This…
Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode
Eight-year-old among those slain, Israel blamed, Iran’s Lebanese ambassador wounded, it’s said Lebanon says at least nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed today after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Israel has been blamed.… This…
Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout
Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Overly permissive settings in Google Cloud’s Document AI service could be abused by data thieves to break into Cloud Storage buckets and steal sensitive information.… This article has been indexed…
At least nine dead, thousands hurt in Lebanon after Hezbollah pagers explode
Eight-year-old among those slain, Israel blamed, Iran’s Lebanese ambassador wounded, it’s reported Lebanon says at least nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed today after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Israel has been blamed.… This…
Hezbollah claims dozens dead as its pagers go boom, not beep
Iran’s Lebanese ambassador reportedly among the injured Terrorist group Hezbollah is claiming that eight people have died and dozens are injured after pagers used by its troops exploded.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M
Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up The trend of ransomware crews claiming to sell stolen data privately instead of leaking it online continues with Rhysida marketing the data allegedly belonging to Port of Seattle for…
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Predator spyware kingpins added to US sanctions list
Designations come as new infrastructure spins up in Africa Five individuals and one company with ties to spyware developer Intellexa are the latest to earn sanctions as the US expands efforts to stamp out spyware.… This article has been indexed…
China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means
If this really was that useful, they wouldn’t be telling us According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband internet satellites could be used to track US stealth fighters, such as the F-22.… This article has been…
Microsoft confirms IE bug squashed in Patch Tuesday was exploited zero-day
The C in these CVEs stands for Confusing Analysis Microsoft, in a low-key update to its September Patch Tuesday disclosures, has confirmed a just-fixed Internet Explorer vulnerability was exploited as a zero-day before it could be patched.… This article has…