29 May

8,000+ Asus routers popped in ‘advanced’ mystery botnet plot

Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor

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29 May

Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable. More than 93.7

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29 May

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again… for startups

The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle,

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29 May

Victoria’s Secret website laid bare for three days after ‘security incident’

Underwear retailer Victoria’s Secret’s website has been down for three days, with the company blaming an unspecified security problem. “We identified and are taking steps

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29 May

Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity

Partner content From the use of ATMs to online banking, the financial services sector has always been at the forefront of technology. Now, it’s leading

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28 May

Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged

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28 May

Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a “strict-regime” (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked sensitive data to

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28 May

The cost of compromise: Why password attacks are still winning in 2025

Sponsored feature The IT business likes to reinvent things as quickly as possible. Except passwords, that is. We’ve been using them since Roman times, only

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28 May

DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware

DragonForce ransomware infected a managed service provider, and its customers, after attackers exploited security flaws in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp. In addition to

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28 May

ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI – because nobody knows what to do with it

Computex Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to

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27 May

Don’t click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials,

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27 May

New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack

A previously unknown Kremlin-linked group has conducted cyber-espionage operations against Dutch police, NATO member states, Western tech companies, and other organizations of interest to the

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27 May

Adidas confirms criminals stole data from customer service provider

Adidas is warning customers some of their data was stolen after an “unauthorized” person lifted it from a “third-party customer service provider.” The sportswear giant

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27 May

Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down

Software biz MathWorks is cleaning up a ransomware attack more than a week after it took down MATLAB, its flagship product used by more than

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27 May

Word to the wise: Beware of fake Docusign emails

Cybercriminals impersonate the trusted e-signature brand and send fake Docusign notifications to trick people into giving away their personal or corporate data Phil Muncaster 27

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26 May

TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed

Infosec In Brief Secrets of the Trump administration may have been exposed after a successful attack on messaging service TeleMessage, which has been used by

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26 May

China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme

Asia In Brief China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity

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24 May

Cybercrime is ‘orders of magnitude’ larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

INTERVIEW Uncle Sam’s cybersecurity apparatus can’t only focus on China and other nation-state actors, but also has to fight the much bigger damage from plain

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