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Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers
Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi
This is why we can’t have nice things, people
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back
Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M
The backup Microsoft never promised you
SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster
Face-swap software blinked for ‘barely a second,’ giving Spanish cops the break they needed
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon’s charity data
CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Attackers pick Levi’s pockets in social engineering attack
Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we’re still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
No, no nasties to see here, guv…
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver’s seat
Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated