Cybercrime has entered its AI era, with criminals now using weaponized language models and deepfakes as cheap, off-the-shelf infrastructure rather than experimental tools, according to

Digital Security Once again, data shows an uncomfortable truth: the habit of choosing eminently hackable passwords is alive and well Christian Ali Bravo 20 Jan

Interview After Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently threatened to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not

A Jordanian national faces sentencing in the US after pleading guilty to acting as an initial access broker (IAB) for various cyberattacks. Feras Khalil Ahmad

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is once again warning that pro-Russia hacktivists are a threat to critical services operators. The cyber arm of

Microsoft has rushed out an out-of-band Windows 11 update after January’s Patch Tuesday broke something as fundamental as turning PCs off. The emergency fix, KB5077797,

Ingram Micro disclosed that a July 2025 ransomware attack compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of employees. The distributor’s filing with the attorney

The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.

A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff will return to classrooms

The Royal Navy has conducted the first flight of a helicopter-sized autonomous drone that is planned to operate from its ships in support of missions,

Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of “Who Me?”, The Register’s Monday column that shares your mistakes and celebrates your escapes. This week, meet a

Asia In Brief Microsoft is hiring senior managers to ensure its datacenters in Asia can access the energy they need. The software giant last week

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Google’s security outfit Mandiant last week released tools that can crack credentials in 12 hours, in the hope that doing so

Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google’s Fast Pair system that allows

We’re not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn’t want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft’s January Patch

German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware. Nefekov, 35, is accused of

A critical HPE OneView flaw is now being exploited at scale, with Check Point tying mass, automated attacks to the RondoDox botnet. The security outfit

An Estonian e-scooter owner locked out of his own ride after the manufacturer went bust did what any determined engineer might do. He reverse-engineered it,