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Suspected Anonymous members detained in Spain over post-flood DDoS blitz
Quartet accused of attacking public institutions, claiming the government was responsible for 2024 tragedy Spanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024…
AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign
Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.… This article…
Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse
The only good password is no password at all Passwords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users’ lives in 1961, with MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through…
Attacker gets into France’s database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records
PLUS: Unpatched Ivanti boxes under attack; 0APT might not be a scam; AI gets better at helping cyber-scum; And more Infosec In Brief An unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the country and made…
UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints
Confidential complainant details passed to local politician following debate A UK councillor has dubbed her local authority’s data breach “crazy” after the personal details of individuals behind a series of complaints were revealed to her.… This article has been indexed…
PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a ‘few’ unauthorized transactions
About 100 customers affected PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.… This article has…
AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI’s npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers’ machines without their knowledge. … This…
ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
What happens in Vegas… Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: ShinyHunters demands…
Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.… This article has been…
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn’t plug-and-play
Attempt to go ‘Made in EU’ offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try…
CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam’s cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that’s been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.… This article has been…
Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and security technology secrets…
Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Should org get £500k fine?
Appeals judge says yes in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant The UK’s data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records…
Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him
Skill at buzzword bingo also required as company seeks innovative and disruptive visionary The CEO of code review platform provider Snyk has announced he will stand down so the company can find someone better-equipped to steer the company into the…
AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures
MIT CSAIL’s 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.… This article has been indexed from…
Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT
$300 a month buys you a backdoor that looks like legit software Researchers at Proofpoint late last month uncovered what they describe as a “weird twist” on the growing trend of criminals abusing remote monitoring and management software (RMM) as…
Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs
FBI warns these cyber-physical attacks are on the rise Thieves stole more than $20 million from compromised ATMs last year using a malware-assisted technique that the FBI says is on the uptick across the United States.… This article has been…
Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices
The real deal or another research project overblown? Cybersecurity researchers say they’ve spotted the first Android malware strain that uses generative AI to improve performance once installed. But it may be only a proof of concept.… This article has been…
DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events
Emails show all discussed networking and biz interests with the sex offender throughout the 2010s Cybersecurity conference DEF CON has added three men named in the Epstein files to its list of banned individuals. They are not accused of any…