Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government’s cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases…
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EU biometric border system launches, suffers teeting problems
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits The European Union’s new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague’s international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year
‘We will never stop,’ say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective – compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings – announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI’s…
Microsoft ‘illegally’ tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country’s data protection regulator ruled the software giant “illegally” tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their…
China probes Qualcomm’s Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions
Beijing insists it’s business as usual – Washington might see it differently China’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm’s purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.… This…
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears
Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings The Dutch government has placed Nexperia – a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain’s Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures…
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t exist
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK’s Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.… This article has been indexed…
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers’ trap
Forescout’s phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed – via…
Microsoft warns of ‘payroll pirate’ crew looting US university salaries
Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.… This article has been indexed from The…
Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz
US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with…
UK techies’ union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details
Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
It’s trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic
Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model – that’s 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. … This article has…
SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke
Affects users regardless of when their backups were created SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances…
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort
CRM giant ‘will not engage, negotiate with, or pay’ the scumbags Salesforce won’t pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant…
Germany slams brakes on EU’s Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest
Berlin’s opposition likely kills off Brussels’ bid to scan everyone’s messages Germany has committed to oppose the EU’s controversial “Chat Control” regulations following huge pressure from multiple activists and major organizations.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot, not so much Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large number of corporate users paste Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or…
Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data
No fraud monitoring and no apology after miscreants make off with medical, financial data Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack.……
Police and military radio maker BK Technologies cops to cyber break-in
Florida comms outfit serving cops, firefighters, and the military says hackers pinched some employee data but insists its systems stayed online BK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a…
OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance
It also banned some suspected Russian accounts trying to create influence campaigns and malware OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts.… This…
Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones
Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD’s list in new wave of cutting-edge projects The UK is pressing ahead with cutting-edge defense projects, the latest including research to protect satellites from laser attack and a technology demonstrator for a…