14 Aug

Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it

At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool

Author rabih
14 Aug

Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?

Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as

Author rabih
14 Aug

‘MadeYouReset’ HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers

Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have published details of a “common design flaw” in implementations of the HyperText Transfer Protocol

Author rabih
14 Aug

Lock down your critical infrastructure, CISA begs admins

CISA is urging companies with operational technology environments to set a better cybersecurity posture, and not just by adopting some new best practices and purchasing

Author rabih
14 Aug

BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist

Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk is halting all deposits and withdrawals amid fears that blockchain bandits succeeded in significantly compromising its hot wallets. Mozilla founder blasts

Author rabih
14 Aug

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama

Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court’s creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a

Author rabih
14 Aug

Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms

Italy’s digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal’s claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine. The miscreant, operating

Author rabih
14 Aug

Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack

A UK-based multinational that provides tech stock availability tools is telling customers that its website outage is due to a cyber attack. Stock in the

Author rabih
14 Aug

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?

Register debate series The UK government’s five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each

Author rabih
13 Aug

Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts

Fortinet warned customers about a critical FortiSIEM bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands, and said working exploit code for the

Author rabih
13 Aug

Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago

Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a “better time” when this was all fields and kids respected

Author rabih
13 Aug

UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you

A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters’ access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as “an excellent opportunity for policing.” Privacy

Author rabih
13 Aug

Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor

Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK’s Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input. Andreessen, notable

Author rabih
13 Aug

Microsoft wares may be UK public sector’s only viable option

Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government’s money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year

Author rabih
13 Aug

Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes

The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity protocol vulnerabilities,” addressed in the latest version,

Author rabih
13 Aug

Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes

The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity protocol vulnerabilities,” addressed in the latest version,

Author rabih
13 Aug

Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul’s 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash

The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced

Author rabih
13 Aug

Crypto crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called “stablecoin” Terra USD and now faces time in jail. Kwon

Author rabih
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