15 Sep

Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records

A US fintech biz is writing to nearly 700,000 customers because a former employee may have accessed or acquired their data after leaving the company.

Author rabih
15 Sep

Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT

North Korean spies used ChatGPT to generate a fake military ID for use in an espionage campaign against a South Korean defense-related institution, according to

Author rabih
15 Sep

China turns the screws on Nvidia with antitrust probe

China has dealt Nvidia another blow, finding the chipmaker in violation of the country’s anti-monopoly Law and escalating a long-running regulatory headache into a full

Author rabih
15 Sep

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

The UK’s chief automotive workers’ union is calling on the government to establish a Covid-esque furlough scheme for the thousands of individuals who face losing

Author rabih
15 Sep

UK Lords take aim at Ofcom’s ‘child-protection’ upgrades to Online Safety Act

The House of Lords is about to put the latest child-protection plans of UK regulator the Office of Communications (Ofcom) under the microscope. On Tuesday,

Author rabih
15 Sep

Cyber-scam camp operators shift operations to vulnerable countries as sanctions strike

Criminals appear to be moving cyber-scam centers to vulnerable countries. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) last week warned it had found

Author rabih
14 Sep

15 ransomware gangs ‘go dark’ to enjoy ‘golden parachutes’

Infosec In Brief 15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be

Author rabih
14 Sep

15 ransomware gangs ‘go dark’ to enjoy ‘golden parachutes’

Infosec In Brief 15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be

Author rabih
14 Sep

Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions

With the end of Windows 10’s regular support cycle fast approaching, and a good five years since the COVID pandemic spurred a wave of hardware

Author rabih
12 Sep

HybridPetya: More proof that Secure Boot bypasses are not just an urban legend

A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows

Author rabih
12 Sep

Samsung fixes Android 0-day that may have been used to spy on WhatsApp messages

Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices – but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote

Author rabih
12 Sep

All your vulns are belong to us! CISA wants to maintain gov control of CVE program

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) nearly let the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program lapse earlier this year, but a new “vision” document

Author rabih
12 Sep

1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines

More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring

Author rabih
12 Sep

Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance

A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if history is anything to go by, ministers probably couldn’t

Author rabih
12 Sep

Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in line

The UK’s data protection watchdog says more than half of cyberattacks in schools are caused by students, and that parents should act early to prevent

Author rabih
12 Sep

Introducing HybridPetya: Petya/NotPetya copycat with UEFI Secure Boot bypass

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. It is a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, adding the capability of compromising

Author rabih
12 Sep

Huntress’s ‘hilarious’ attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as “hilarious” – split opinion across the

Author rabih
11 Sep

We’re number 1! America now leads the world in surveillanceware investment

After years of being dominated by outsiders, the computer surveillance software industry is booming in the United States as investors rush into the ethically dodgy

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