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…
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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…
Snowflake lets admins make MFA mandatory across all user accounts
Company announces intent following Ticketmaster, Santander break-ins A month after incident response giant Mandiant suggested the litany of data thefts linked to Snowflake account intrusions had the common component of lacking multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls, the cloud storage and data…
Malware that is ‘not ransomware’ wormed its way through Fujitsu Japan’s systems
Company says data exfiltration was extremely difficult to detect Fujitsu Japan says an unspecified “advanced” malware strain was to blame for a March data theft, insisting the strain was “not ransomware”, yet it hasn’t revealed how many individuals are affected.……
Ransomware crews investing in custom data stealing malware
BlackByte, LockBit among the criminals using bespoke tools As ransomware crews increasingly shift beyond just encrypting victims’ files and demanding a payment to unlock them, instead swiping sensitive info straight away, some of the more mature crime organizations are developing…
Big Tech’s eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire
Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible Column Found a bug? It turns out that reporting it with a story in The Register works remarkably well … mostly. After publication of my “Kryptonite” article about…
ViperSoftX variant spotted abusing .NET runtime to disguise data theft
Freeware AutoIt also used to hide entire PowerShell environments in scripts A rapidly-changing infostealer malware known as ViperSoftX has evolved to become more dangerous, according to security researchers at threat detection vendor Trellix.… This article has been indexed from The…
RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw
If someone can do a little MITM’ing and hash cracking, they can log in with no valid password needed Cybersecurity experts at universities and Big Tech have disclosed a vulnerability in a common client-server networking protocol that allows snoops to…
Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday
Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patch Tuesday Clear your Microsoft system administrator’s diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday is a doozy, with at least two bugs…
Critical Windows licensing bugs, plus two others under attack, top Patch Tuesday
Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patch Tuesday Clear your Microsoft system administrator’s diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday is a doozy, with at least two bugs…
FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots
RT News snarks back after it’s accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin The FBI and cybersecurity agencies in Canada and the Netherlands say they have taken down an almost 1,000-strong Twitter bot farm set up by Russian state-run RT…
Elexon’s Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate
Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due Certificate Watch Demonstrating that Microsoft is not alone in its inability to keep track of certificates is UK power market biz Elexon.… This article has been…
Evolve Bank & Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6 million people’s data
Making cyberattack among the largest ever recorded in finance industry Evolve Bank & Trust says the data of more than 7.6 million customers was stolen during the LockBit break-in in late May, per a fresh filing with Maine’s attorney general.……
Houthi rebels are operating their own GuardZoo spyware
Fairly ‘low budget’, unsophisticated malware, say researchers, but it can collect the same data as Pegasus Interview When it comes to surveillance malware, sophisticated spyware with complex capabilities tends to hog the limelight – for example NSO Group’s Pegasus, which…