The Ghostpulse malware strain now retrieves its main payload via a PNG image file’s pixels. This development, security experts say, is “one of the most

China’s Spamouflage disinformation crew has been targeting US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) with its fake news campaigns over the past couple of months, trolling the

British security biz Sophos has announced a plan to gobble up competitor Secureworks in an $859 million deal that will make Dell happy. The server

Interview This month, presidential hopeful Donald Trump got a tool in his arsenal, some allegedly “unhackable” communications kit, and The Register has talked to the

In revealing details about a vulnerability that threatens the privacy of Apple fans, Microsoft urges all macOS users to update their systems. The bug, tracked

Scams Watch out for schemes where fraudsters trick people into sharing verification codes so they can gain access to their phone numbers Phil Muncaster 21

Tesla has denied it was involved in illegal-map making activities in China after Beijing asserted an unnamed foreign firm working on a smart car project

Despite the Internet Archive’s assurances it’s back on its feet after a recent infosec incident, the org still appears to be in trouble after parties

Researchers with Seattle-based Protect AI plan to release a free, open source tool that can find zero-day vulnerabilities in Python codebases with the help of

in brief A critical security update for the near-ubiquitous WordPress plugin Jetpack was released last week. Site administrators should ensure the latest version is installed

An Alabama man faces five years in prison for allegedly attempting to manipulate the price of Bitcoin by pwning the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s

Intel has responded to Chinese claims that its chips include security backdoors at the direction of America’s NSA. The accusations were made earlier this week

Video The average time it takes attackers to weaponize a vulnerability, either before or after a patch is released, shrank from 63 days in 2018-2019

ESET denies being compromised after an infosec researcher highlighted a wiper campaign that appeared to victims as if it was launched using the Slovak security

A critical bug in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow unauthorized SSH access to virtual machines (VMs) thanks to default credentials being included during the image

Intel has responded to Chinese claims that its chips include security backdoors at the direction of America’s NSA. The accusations were made earlier this week

Intel has roundly rebutted Chinese accusations that its chips include security backdoors at the direction of the US National Security Agency (NSA). The accusations were

It’s a pattern cropping up more and more frequently: a company fills an IT contractor post, not realizing it’s mistakenly hired a North Korean operative.