22 Jan

Crims compromised energy firms’ Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails

Unknown attackers are abusing Microsoft SharePoint file-sharing services to target multiple energy-sector organizations, harvest user credentials, take over corporate inboxes, and then send hundreds of

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22 Jan

FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft

FortiGate firewalls are getting quietly reconfigured and stripped down by miscreants who’ve figured out how to sidestep SSO protections and grab sensitive settings right out

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22 Jan

Europe’s GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe’s regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notifications a day,

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22 Jan

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls

Concerned about the orgs that safeguard your money? The UK’s annual cybersecurity review for 2025 suggests you should be. Despite years of regulation, financial organizations

Author rabih
22 Jan

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is “trivial” to exploit, experts say. The bug, which had gone unnoticed for

Author rabih
22 Jan

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day

Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that’s already being weaponized in the wild, and

Author rabih
22 Jan

Common Apple Pay scams, and how to stay safe

Here’s how the most common scams targeting Apple Pay users work and what you can do to stay one step ahead Phil Muncaster 22 Jan

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21 Jan

Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild

AI agents arrived in Davos this week with the question of how to secure them – and prevent agents from becoming the ultimate insider threat

Author rabih
21 Jan

Don’t click on the LastPass ‘create backup’ link – it’s a scam

Password managers make great targets for attackers because they can hold many of the keys to your kingdom. Now, LastPass has warned customers about phishing

Author rabih
21 Jan

Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) says 72.7 million accounts registered with Under Armour were affected by an alleged ransomware attack in November. The data breach

Author rabih
21 Jan

EU considers whether there’s Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

The European Commission (EC) wants a revised Cybersecurity Act to address any threats posed by IT and telecoms kit from third-country sources, potentially forcing member

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21 Jan

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use. The

Author rabih
21 Jan

Best of British: UK’s infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture

Britain’s digital economy minister has sent forth a raft of companies as “ambassadors” to help organizations across the land embrace the UK’s Software Security Code

Author rabih
21 Jan

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated

Author rabih
20 Jan

Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers

Cloudflare has fixed a flaw in its web application firewall (WAF) that allowed attackers to bypass security rules and directly access origin servers, which could

Author rabih
20 Jan

Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it

VoidLink, the newly spotted Linux malware that targets victims’ clouds with 37 evil plugins, was generated “almost entirely by artificial intelligence” and likely developed by

Author rabih
20 Jan

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

Two “easy-to-exploit” vulnerabilities in the popular open-source AI framework Chainlit put major enterprises’ cloud environments at risk of leaking data or even full takeover, according

Author rabih
20 Jan

Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution

Anthropic has fixed three bugs in its official Git MCP server that researchers say can be chained with other MCP tools to remotely execute malicious

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