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Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
UK’s largest airport operator reportedly believes 8.7 million customers affected
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as ‘a warning shot’
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
Beijing’s botnets busted.
OpenAI explains how its AI agents did crime and attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as ‘a warning shot’
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
‘These are test runs for a larger-scale attack’
Boston Scientific discloses ‘global disruption’ in ongoing cyberattack
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks
You could’ve applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw
Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it’s finally time for the USG to plug the gap
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads
Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap
You don’t want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine
Its own command language, 23 instructions – signs point to ‘well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one’
Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks
Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant
No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev’s headphones
Sawtooth waves you can’t hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they’ve got you covered
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026
If you’re not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will
Agents are also the new attack surface – cue defenders’ existential angst
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice
Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia’s Zoom) if you’re using it
Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf’s reach stretches well beyond home turf