There’s one cognitive bias that we humans are prone to, and it lies at the centre of some of the challenges that cybersecurity professionals face

There’s another likely North Korean-linked scam hitting developers and their employers, while snarfing up credentials and cryptocurrency – and this one doesn’t even involve embedding

cyber-crime Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7 Check Point released an emergency fix on Monday for a critical authentication

Cyber-crime Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack An Illinois high school won’t reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after suffering a ransomware

security Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm

security Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off Meta has asked a federal judge

security Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that’s OK then  Oxford University students seeking work will be dismayed to learn that

If they don’t get you online, they’ll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional

security Good luck, sys admins The threat is real. Unknown miscreants are exploiting a high-severity, zero-day bug in Cisco’s SD-WAN management software, and the networking

security Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain Humanitarian organization World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its systems was

Security Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex A City of York Council email mishap exposed the email addresses

CYBER-CRIME A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$ A new extortion brand called Pink uses voice phishing and fake help-desk calls to gain

Security Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb The next threat your server faces may have been helped along by a bot. OpenAI’s Codex agent helped uncover a

Security Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted MI5 and its international allies are once again warning that China

cyber-crime Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act Two former RAC workers in the UK have three months to

There’s a lot of fear surrounding the bug-finding capabilities of super-advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT 5.5-Cyber. But attackers are already using

SECURITY It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we talk about

AI-enabled cybercriminals have better tools and are inflicting more pain on their victims, wiping out virtual machines and hypervisors and leaving infrastructure in a “dark,