31 Dec

European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale

The European Space Agency has suffered yet another security incident and, in keeping with past practice, says the impact is limited. Meanwhile, miscreants boast that

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31 Dec

Hong Kong’s newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking

Hong Kong’s banks have a new weapon against scams: Accounts that require customers to visit a branch to access their funds. The territory’s Monetary Authority

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31 Dec

Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum

A ransomware negotiator and a security incident response manager have admitted to running ransomware attacks. Readers may recall the October 2025 indictments of Ryan Clifford

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31 Dec

New York’s incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party

New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has invited the city’s residents to join him at a block party to celebrate his inauguration but told attendees not

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30 Dec

An early end to the holidays: ‘Heartbleed of MongoDB’ is now under active exploit

A high-severity MongoDB Server vulnerability, for which proofs of concept emerged over Christmas week, is now under active exploitation, according to the US Cybersecurity and

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30 Dec

Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has found that local carrier Korea Telecom (KT) deployed thousands of badly secured femtocells, leading to an attack

Author rabih
29 Dec

Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims

Rogue insiders suspected of taking bribes to hand over Coinbase customer records to criminals are beginning to face justice, according to CEO Brian Armstrong. The

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29 Dec

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online

A criminal group is beating Conde Nast over the head for not responding sooner to its extortion attempt by posting stolen subscribers’ email and home

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29 Dec

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – December 2025 edition

As 2025 draws to a close, Tony looks back at the cybersecurity stories that stood out both in December and across the whole of this

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29 Dec

Europe’s cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on

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29 Dec

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence

Korean e-tailer Coupang claims a former employee has admitted to improperly accessing data describing 33 million of its customers, but says the accused deleted the

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28 Dec

Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025

The knock-on, and often unintentional, impacts of a cyberattack are so rarely discussed. As an industry, the focus is almost always placed on the economic

Author rabih
26 Dec

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … for corporate security bosses to run tabletop exercises, simulating a hypothetical cyberattack or other emergency, running

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26 Dec

From video games to cyber defense: If you don’t think like a hacker, you won’t win

interview According to Remedio CEO Tal Kollender, the only way to beat the bad guys hacking into corporate networks is to “think like a hacker,”

Author rabih
24 Dec

Pen testers accused of ‘blackmail’ after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws

Researchers at Pen Test Partners found four flaws in Eurostar’s public AI chatbot that, among other security issues, could allow an attacker to inject malicious

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24 Dec

US shuts down phisherfolk’s $14.6M password-hoarding platform

The US says it has shut down a platform used by cybercriminals to break into Americans’ bank accounts. A law enforcement splash page now appears

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24 Dec

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Microsoft wants to translate its codebase to Rust, and is hiring people to make it happen. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C

Author rabih
23 Dec

ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled ‘Buy security company, make it Armis’

After over a week of speculation, ServiceNow announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy cybersecurity heavyweight Armis in a $7.75 billion deal that

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