After all we’ve done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab Kaspersky has confirmed it will shutter its American operations and cut US-based jobs following President Biden’s ban on the Russian business last month.… This article has been indexed from The…
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ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu
‘It seems like they really don’t have a full grasp of what’s going on with this patch’ Exclusive A Microsoft zero-day exploit that Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative team claims it found and reported to Redmond in May was disclosed…
Infoseccers claim Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijackings at Web3 firms
Company keeps quiet amid high-profile compromises Security researchers are claiming a spate of DNS hijackings at web3 businesses is linked to Squarespace’s acquisition of Google Domains last year.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23 billion
The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory? Ask any techie to name who leads the market for OSes, databases, networks or ERP and the answers are clear: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and…
I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed
Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more Infosec in brief Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached – again – and millions of purchasers can be identified from the…
UK cyber-boss slams China’s bug-hoarding laws
Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more ASIA IN BRIEF The interim CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has criticized China’s approach to bug reporting.… This article has been indexed from…
Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert
And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice … Color us skeptical Kettle For this week’s Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about…
Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack
15,000 dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Car…
White House urged to double check Microsoft isn’t funneling AI to China via G42 deal
Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh! Two House committee chairs have sent a public letter to the White House asking it to look into a deal between AI R&D outfit…
CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most…
Break-in at ‘third-party cloud platform’ leaked 110M customer records, says AT&T
Snowflake? Snowflake AT&T has admitted that cyberattackers grabbed a load of its data for the second time this year, and if you think the first haul was big you haven’t seen anything: This one includes data on “nearly all” AT&T…
Identity: the new security perimeter
What to do when your MFA is mercilessly attacked by hackers Webinar Threat actors are always looking for that easy way in by testing weak spots, and user identities are one of their favourite targets.… This article has been indexed…
Singapore’s banks to ditch texted one-time passwords
Accessibility be damned, preventing phishing is the priority After around two decades of allowing one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered by text message to assist log ins to bank accounts in Singapore, the city-state will abandon the authentication technique.… This article has…
China’s APT41 crew adds a stealthy malware loader and fresh backdoor to its toolbox
Meet DodgeBox, son of StealthVector Chinese government-backed cyber espionage gang APT41 has very likely added a loader dubbed DodgeBox and a backdoor named MoonWalk to its malware toolbox, according to cloud security service provider Zscaler’s ThreatLabz research team.… This article…
‘Gay furry hackers’ say they’ve disbanded after raiding Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation
Ultra-conservative org funnily enough not ready to turn the other cheek After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist crew SiegedSec claims…
OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable
Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon The founder of Openwall has discovered a new signal handler race condition in the core sshd daemon used in RHEL 9.x and its various offshoots.… This article has been indexed from…
Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people’s data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account
Letters from CISO Ethan Steiger suggest the data related to job applications Advance Auto Parts’ CISO just revealed for the first time the number of individuals affected when criminals broke into its Snowflake instance – a hefty 2.3 million.… This…
Privacy expert put away for 9 years after ‘grotesque’ cyberstalking campaign
Scumbag targeted many victims – and those who tried to help them A scumbag who used to work as a privacy consultant has been put behind bars for nine years for a “grotesque” cyberstalking campaign against more than a dozen…
You had a year to patch this Veeam flaw and now it’s going to hurt
LockBit variant targets backup software – which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware Yet another new ransomware gang, this one dubbed EstateRansomware, is exploiting a Veeam vulnerability that was patched more than a year ago…
Japanese space agency spotted zero-day attacks while cleaning up attack on M365
Multiple malware attack saw personal data acessed, but rocket science remained safe The Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) discovered it was under attack using zero-day exploits while working with Microsoft to probe a 2023 cyberattack on its systems.… This article…