‘We do believe that this was likely the creation of a cybercrime group,’ threat hunter tells The Reg ChillyHell, a modular macOS backdoor believed to be long dormant, has likely been infecting computers for years while flying under the radar,…
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Jaguar Land Rover U-turns to confirm ‘some data’ affected after cyber prang
Systems offline as specialists continue to comb through wreckage Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says “some data” was affected after the luxury car maker suffered a digital break-in early last week.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Jagar Land Rover U-turns to confirm ‘some data’ affected after cyber prang
Systems offline as specialists continue to comb through wreckage Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says “some data” was affected after the luxury car maker suffered a digital break-in early last week.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Uncle Sam indicts alleged ransomware kingpin tied to $18B in damages
Prosecutors claim Ukrainian ran LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ops – $11M bounty on his head A Ukrainian national faces serious federal charges and an $11 million bounty after allegedly orchestrating ransomware operations that caused an estimated $18 billion in damages…
Flu jab email mishap exposes hundreds of students’ personal data
One parent expressed concern for their child’s safety A clumsy data breach has affected hundreds of children at a Birmingham secondary school.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Flu jab email mishap…
Cybercrooks ripped the wheels off at Jaguar Land Rover. Here’s how not to get taken for a ride
Are you sure you know who has access to your systems? Feature Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is the latest UK household name to fall victim to a major cyberattack. IT systems across multiple sites have been offline for over a…
This Patch Tuesday, SAP is the worst offender and Microsoft users can kinda chill
ERP giant patches flaw that allows total takeover of NetWeaver, Microsoft has nothing under attack for once September’s Patch Tuesday won’t require Microsoft users to rapidly repair rancid software, but SAP users need to move fast to address extremely dangerous…
More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change
Miscreants cost victims time rather than money During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz researchers. But crypto-craving crims did little more…
New cybersecurity rules land for Defense Department contractors
Now if only someone would remember to apply those rules inside the DoD It’s about to get a lot harder for private companies that are lax on cybersecurity to get a contract with the Pentagon, as the Defense Department has…
Defense Dept didn’t protect social media accounts, left stream keys out in public
‘The practice… has since been fixed,’ Pentagon official tells The Reg The US Department of Defense, up until this week, routinely left its social media accounts wide open to hijackers via stream keys – unique, confidential identifiers generated by streaming…
No gains, just pains as 1.6M fitness phone call recordings exposed online
HelloGym’s data security clearly skipped leg day Exclusive Sensitive info from hundreds of thousands of gym customers and staff – including names, financial details, and potentially biometric data in the form of audio recordings – was left sitting in an…
What the Plex? Streaming service suffers yet another password spill
For the third time in a decade Streaming platform Plex is warning some users to reset their passwords after suffering yet another breach.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: What the Plex?…
Anthropic’s Claude Code runs code to test if it is safe – which might be a big mistake
AI security reviews add new risks, say researchers App security outfit Checkmarx says automated reviews in Anthropic’s Claude Code can catch some bugs but miss others – and sometimes create new risks by executing code while testing it.… This article…
Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone
Ivalo XE handset targets governments and security critical sectors, though Qualcomm silicon keeps it tied to the US Finnish phone maker HMD Global is launching a business unit called HMD Secure to target governments and other security-critical customers, and has…
UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content
Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned amendment…
Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free
Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.… This article has been…
WhatsApp’s former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting
Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security WhatsApp’s former head of security, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit against its parent company, Meta, alleging that the social media megalith retaliated against him for reporting security failings…
The US government has no idea how many cybersecurity pros it employs
Auditors find federal cybersecurity workforce data messy, incomplete, and unreliable The US federal government employs tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals at a cost of billions per year – or at least it thinks it does, as auditors have found…
Drift massive attack traced back to loose Salesloft GitHub account
Meanwhile the victim count grows The Salesloft Drift breach that compromised “hundreds” of companies including Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare, all started with miscreants gaining access to the Salesloft GitHub account in March.… This article has been indexed from…
Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised
Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack Crims have added backdoors to at least 18 npm packages after developer Josh Junon inadvertently authorized a reset of the two-factor authentication protecting his npm account.… This…