05 Jun

China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on

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05 Jun

IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn’t saying why

IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability. The outage repeated the Tuesday incident that saw

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04 Jun

Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes

Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in

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04 Jun

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Following a daring drone attack on Russian airfields, Ukrainian military intelligence has reportedly also hacked the servers of Tupolev, the Kremlin’s strategic bomber maker. Local

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04 Jun

Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering

Kettering Health patients who had chemotherapy sessions and pre-surgery appointments canceled due to a ransomware attack in May now have to deal with the painful

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04 Jun

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing

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04 Jun

Crims stole 40,000 people’s data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises

Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year. The Iowa-based

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04 Jun

UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict

Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) says “there are pockets of excellence” but improvements

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04 Jun

Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones

Interview Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he’s moving onto drone

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04 Jun

‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources

The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and

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03 Jun

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities

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03 Jun

You say Cozy Bear, I say Midnight Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, APT29 …

Opinion Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to “bring clarity to threat-actor naming.” It’s

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03 Jun

Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild

Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day. Google Threat Analysis Group

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03 Jun

X’s new ‘encrypted’ XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Elon Musk’s X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a “whole

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03 Jun

Crooks fleece The North Face accounts with recycled logins

Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts

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03 Jun

Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma

Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code. The glitch was caused by the May Patch

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03 Jun

Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable

Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after

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03 Jun

Bling slinger Cartier tells customers to be wary of phishing attacks after intrusion

Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems. The notification email, seen

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