07 Jan

State-aligned APT groups are increasingly deploying ransomware – and that’s bad news for everyone

Business Security The blurring of lines between cybercrime and state-sponsored attacks underscores the increasingly fluid and multifaceted nature of today’s cyberthreats Phil Muncaster 07 Jan

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07 Jan

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

The US Department of Defense has added Chinese messaging and gaming Tencent to its list of “Chinese military company”, a designation that won’t necessarily result

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06 Jan

Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China’s Salt Typhoon victim list

The list of telecommunications victims in the Salt Typhoon cyberattack continues to grow as a new report names Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream among

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06 Jan

FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices

Android malware dubbed FireScam tricks people into thinking they are downloading a Telegram Premium application that stealthily monitors victims’ notifications, text messages, and app activity,

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06 Jan

MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns

MediaTek kicked off the first full working week of the new year by disclosing a bevy of security vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution

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06 Jan

AI moves to your PC with its own special hardware

Digital Security Seeking to keep sensitive data private and accelerate AI workloads? Look no further than AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors with

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06 Jan

After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt, and

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06 Jan

Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables

Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged a submarine cable. Local media reports, and the Financial Times report that

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06 Jan

Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online

Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without incident – unlike Volkswagen,

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04 Jan

Encryption backdoor debate ‘done and dusted,’ former White House tech advisor says

interview In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmakers and privacy advocates alike have called the worst telecoms breach in America’s history, the

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04 Jan

Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’

French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems – but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew,

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03 Jan

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

Though the same couldn’t be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA

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03 Jan

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

Computer scientists affiliated with France’s Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in

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03 Jan

Gary Marcus – Taming Silicon Valley | Starmus Highlights

We Live Science The prominent AI researcher explores the societal impact of artificial intelligence and calls for a reimagined approach to AI development that avoids

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02 Jan

Chinese cyber-spies reportedly targeted sanctions intel in US Treasury raid

Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department’s workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations and individuals. On

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02 Jan

More telcos confirm China Salt Typhoon security breaches as White House weighs in

AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies confirmed that Chinese government-backed snoops accessed portions of their systems earlier this year, while the White House added another, yet-unnamed

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02 Jan

Apple offers to settle ‘snooping Siri’ lawsuit for an utterly incredible $95M

Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent and

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02 Jan

Apple agrees to settle Siri-snooping lawsuit for $95M

Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent and

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