Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right? Cyber-crime5 months | 25
Deloitte says cyberattack on Rhode Island benefits portal carries 'major security threat' Personal and financial data probably stolen Cyber-crime5 months | 2
Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not Infosec in brief Plus: Netscaler brute force barrage; BeyondTrust API key stolen; and more Security5 months | 1
Iran-linked crew used custom 'cyberweapon' in US critical infrastructure attacks IOCONTROL targets IoT and OT devices from a ton of makers, apparently Research5 months | 15
Scumbag gets 30 years in the clink for running CSAM dark-web chatrooms, abusing kids 'Today’s sentencing is more than just a punishment. It’s a message' Cyber-crime5 months | 42
Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage Privacy measure leaves some mourning lost memories Security5 months | 48
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North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers Cyber-crime5 months | 2
Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug More details released after devs allowed weeks to apply fixes Patches5 months |
Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains Cyber-crime5 months | 5
British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing Public Sector5 months | 145
Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla Software5 months | 88
Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay Virtualization5 months |
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks Security5 months | 17
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security Belly-busting biz says it's been hit by cowardly custards Security5 months | 33
Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10 Patch up, everyone – that admin portal is mighty attractive to your friendly cyberattacker Patches5 months | 2
US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware Cyber-crime5 months | 4
Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins Patch Tuesday Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse Security5 months | 24
US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems Public Sector5 months | 89
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory Systems5 months | 10
Fully patched Cleo products under renewed 'zero-day-ish' mass attack Thousands of servers targeted while customers wait for patches Research5 months |
Heart surgery device maker's security bypassed, data encrypted and stolen Sounds like th-aorta get this sorted quickly Cyber-crime5 months | 20
Bitfinex heist gets the Netflix treatment after 'cringey couple' sentenced Streamer's trademark dramatic style takes on Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde Cyber-crime5 months | 6
WhatsApp finally fixes View Once flaw that allowed theft of supposedly vanishing pics And it only took four months, tut Security5 months | 22
Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto' Security5 months | 131
China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House No word yet on who was snooped on. Any bets? CSO5 months | 24
Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket Exclusive ShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Research5 months | 9
OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time CSO5 months | 9
Microsoft dangles $10K for hackers to hijack LLM email service Outsmart an AI, win a little Christmas cash CSO5 months | 12
Blue Yonder ransomware termites claim credit Infosec in brief Also: Mystery US firm compromised by Chinese hackers for months; Safe links that aren't; Polish spy boss arrested, and more Security5 months | 3
How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system Feature 'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg Public Sector5 months | 52
Micropatchers share 1-instruction fix for NTLM hash leak flaw in Windows 7+ Updated Microsoft's OS sure loves throwing your creds at remote systems Patches6 months | 13
Facing sale or ban, TikTok tossed under national security bus by appeals court Video slinger looks to Supremes for salvation, though anything could happen under Trump Personal Tech6 months | 43
Salt Typhoon forces FCC's hand on making telcos secure their networks Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns Security6 months | 4
Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware Threatened with life in prison, Kyiv charity worker gives middle finger to state spies Security6 months | 65
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PoC exploit chains Mitel MiCollab 0-day, auth-bypass bug to access sensitive files updated Still unpatched 100+ days later, watchTowr says Cyber-crime6 months | 4
Microsoft: Another Chinese cyberspy crew targeting US critical orgs 'as of yesterday' Redmond threat intel maven talks explains this persistent pain to The Reg Security6 months | 16
Solana blockchain's popular web3.js npm package backdoored to steal keys, funds Damage likely limited to those running bots with private PKI access Cyber-crime6 months | 7
British hospitals hit by cyberattacks still battling to get systems back online Updated Children's hospital and cardiac unit say criminals broke in via shared 'digital gateway service' Cyber-crime6 months | 21
BT Group confirms attackers tried to break into Conferencing division Sensitive data allegedly stolen from US subsidiary following Black Basta post Cyber-crime6 months | 8
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Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker's bankruptcy Stoli Group on the rocks in the US Security6 months | 35
T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career' Interview Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat CSO6 months | 54
Cops arrest suspected admin of German-language crime bazaar Drugs, botnets, forged docs, and more generated fortune for platform sellers Cyber-crime6 months | 24
Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work Installed the final non-security preview update of 2024? Best not hop onto the Dev Channel CSO6 months | 25
Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix Updated They took the red pill Cyber-crime6 months | 46
FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the meter 'Where we go is who we are' totally isn't a creepy ad slogan at all Personal Tech6 months | 22
Perfect 10 directory traversal vuln hits SailPoint's IAM solution Updated 20-year-old info disclosure class bug still pervades security software Patches6 months | 6
Major energy contractor reports 'limited' access to IT after ransomware locks files ENGlobal customers include the Pentagon as well as major oil and gas producers Security6 months | 11
Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC annual review warns National cyber emergencies increased threefold this year Cyber-crime6 months | 18
Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind bars Cyber-crime6 months | 27
Data on 760K workers from Xerox, Nokia, BofA, Morgan Stanley and more dumped online Yet another result of the MOVEit mess Cyber-crime6 months | 3
AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month Re:Invent Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricing Security6 months | 5
Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI's most wanted list The latest in an unusual change of fortune for group once protected by the Kremlin Cyber-crime6 months | 58
Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone's getting burned Opinion The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians Security6 months | 63
Interpol nabs thousands, seizes millions in global cybercrime-busting op Infosec in brief Also, script kiddies still a threat, Tornado Cash is back, UK firms lose billions to avoidable attacks, and more Security6 months | 8
RansomHub claims to net data hat-trick against Bologna FC Crooks say they have stolen sensitive files on managers and players Cyber-crime6 months | 2
Zabbix urges upgrades after critical SQL injection bug disclosure US agencies blasted 'unforgivable' SQLi flaws earlier this year Patches6 months | 7