Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected Scotland’s West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion earlier…
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US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool
The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed A 19-year-old student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the systems of two companies as part of an extortion scheme, and The Register has…
FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service
Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M International cops working with Microsoft have shut down infrastructure and seized web domains used to run a distribution service for info-stealing malware Lumma. Criminals paid $250 to $1,000 a month to…
Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers
Their connection? Aiding Ukraine, duh Russian cyberspies have targeted “dozens” of Western and NATO-country logistics providers, tech companies, and government orgs providing transport and foreign assistance to Ukraine, according to a joint government announcement issued Wednesday.… This article has been…
FBI, Microsoft, and international cops bust Lumma infostealer service
Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M International cops working with Microsoft have shut down infrastructure and seized web domains used to run a distribution service for info-stealing malware Lumma. Criminals paid $250 to $1,000 a month to…
Coinbase confirms insiders handed over data of 70K users
Bribed support staff were identified and fired Coinbase says the data of nearly 70,000 customers was handed over by overseas support staff who were bribed by criminals to give up the goods.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Judge allows Delta’s lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line
CrowdStrike remains hopeful that damages will be limited to seven figures CrowdStrike is “confident” that the worst-case scenario of its pending lawsuit with Delta will result in it paying the airline a sum in the “single-digit millions.”… This article has…
Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about Uncle Sam’s servers
From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers grow uneasy over US digital dominance.… This…
Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America
In practice, it’ll cost many times that and almost certainly won’t work In a White House press conference on Tuesday President Trump announced his plans for a defensive network of missiles, radar, space surveillance, and attack satellites that he promised…
M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack
Downtime stings retailer, with technical recovery costs coming at a later date Marks & Spencer says the disruption related to its ongoing cyberattack is likely to knock around £300 million ($402 million) off its operating profits for the next financial…
UK ‘extremely dependent’ on US for space security
After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying ‘rhetoric’ from Team Trump has Brits examining options The current rhetoric coming from the US is “alarming” for the UK, which depends on a continuation of their long-standing co-operation around…
Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America
Crew ain’t done hopping sectors, Unit 42 threat hunter warns interview Scattered Spider snared financial services organizations in its web before its recent spate of retail attacks in the UK and US, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.… This…
‘Ongoing’ Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds
Nothing like insecure code in security suites The “ongoing exploitation” of two Ivanti bugs has now extended beyond on-premises environments and hit customers’ cloud instances, according to security shop Wiz.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms
Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a fresh flaw in the JavaScript implementation of OpenPGP (OpenPGP.js) that allows both signed and encrypted messages to be spoofed.… This article has been indexed from…
Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets
Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains It’s more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates
Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters UK telco Virgin Media O2 has fixed an issue with its 4G Calling feature that allowed users’ general location to be discerned by those who called them.……
CISA has a new No. 2 … but still no official top dog
Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats – who wouldn’t want this job? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation’s lead civilian cyber agency faces budget cuts, a…
CISA has a new No. 2 – but still no official top dog
Brain drain, budget cuts, and constant cyberthreats – who wouldn’t want this job? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation’s lead civilian cyber agency faces budget cuts,…
SEC SIM-swapper who Googled ‘signs that the FBI is after you’ put behind bars
Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC’s official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison…
Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years
Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systems A “significant amount of personal data” belonging to legal aid applicants dating back to 2010 in the UK was stolen by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)…