Boasts ‘appear to be credible’ experts tell El Reg A California city, a Spanish fashion giant, an Indian paper manufacturer, and two pharmaceutical companies are the alleged victims of what looks like a new ransomware gang that started leaking stolen…
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No way? Big Tech’s ‘lucrative surveillance’ of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom
Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that’s perhaps far more vast than…
Iran’s cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them
To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap The Iranian cyber snoops who stole files from the Trump campaign, with the intention of leaking those documents, tried to slip the data to the Biden camp — but were apparently…
1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
Many left reeling from July’s IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike’s outage in July are dropping their current…
Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations
Better check your widgets, people Security researchers say that thousands of companies are potentially leaking secrets from their internal knowledge base (KB) articles via ServiceNow misconfigurations.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article:…
UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group
4 file complaint with London’s Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London’s Metropolitan Police they hope will lead to…
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police.… This article has been indexed…
Deja blues… LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
Add ‘ransomware’ to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims once again 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…
FBI boss says China ‘burned down’ 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds
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…
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…