1 in 3 entries are used to extort civilians, says new paper Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks.… This article has been indexed from The…
Tag: The Register – Security
Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching ‘Azure Abuse Enterprise’ operators
Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond’s OpenAI-powered cloud – claim Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative…
Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump’s call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.… This…
Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime The US Army soldier accused of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump’s call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.… This…
FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary
Federal agents, open up … your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets The FBI has officially accused North Korea’s Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for…
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o
Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s output across a range of topics.… This…
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China’s Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time
Boffins poked around inside censorship engines for years before Beijing patched hole Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years.… This article has been indexed from…
Bybit declares war on North Korea’s Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet
Up to $140M in bounty rewards for return of Ethereum allegedly pilfered by hermit nation Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, just days after suspected North Korean operatives stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum from it, has launched a bounty program to help recover…
With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare
244M purloined passwords added to Have I Been Pwned thanks to govt tip-off A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to privacy-breach-notification service…
Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)
Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and ‘droid 15 It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it’ll provide Android software updates, including vulnerability fixes,…
Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect
Experts warned the UK’s recent ‘victory’ over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messaging providers to allow law enforcement officials to access encrypted user data,…
200-plus impressively convincing GitHub repos are serving up malware
Plus: DOGE staff quit; LastPass PC, Mac gasp; and CISA warns Oracle and Adobe flaws under attack Infosec bytes Kaspersky says it has found more than 200 GitHub repos hosting fairly convincing-looking fake projects laced with malicious software.… This article…
Incoming deputy head of Homeland Security says CISA needs to be reined in
Plus: New figurehead of DOGE emerges and they aren’t called Elon During confirmation hearings in the US Senate Tuesday for the role of deputy director of the Dept of Homeland Security, the nominee Troy Edgar said CISA has had the…
Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions
If there’s something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling DISA Global Solutions, a company that provides drug and alcohol testing, background checks, and other employee screening services, this week notified over 3.3 million people that their…
Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans’ email, says book
Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn’t it Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee’s Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity
Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or? The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE’s Caldera security training platform has urged users to “immediately pull down…
Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing
More than a dozen women came forward with accusations Details about the harassment allegations leveled at DEF CON veteran Christopher Hadnagy have now been revealed after a motion for summary judgment was filed over the weekend.… This article has been…
Data resilience and data portability
Why organizations should protect everything, everywhere, all at once Sponsored Feature Considering it has such a large share of the data protection market, Veeam doesn’t talk much about backups in meetings with enterprise customers these days.… This article has been…
China’s Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients’ computers
Sly like a PRC cyberattack A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients’ computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping keyloggers, and cryptominers.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year
Fuxnet and FrostyGoop were both used in the Russia-Ukraine war Two new malware variants specifically designed to disrupt critical industrial processes were set loose on operational technology networks last year, shutting off heat to more than 600 apartment buildings in…