Video A purported ad blocker marketed as a security solution leverages a Microsoft-signed driver that inadvertently exposes victims to dangerous threats 21 Jul 2024 This

Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las

Kettle If you’re an IT administrator with Windows boxes on your network, Friday can’t have been a lot of fun. What’s likely millions of systems

Updated An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows globally. The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10

Digital Security The widespread IT outages triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike update have put software updates in the spotlight. Here’s why you shouldn’t dread them.

Digital Security If a software update process fails, it can lead to catastrophic consequences, as seen today with widespread blue screens of death blamed on

Breaking An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows. The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs

Indian crypto exchange WazirX has revealed it lost virtual assets valued at over $230 million after a cyber attack that has since been linked to

China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact

A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America’s financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about

Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products – by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not

Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs. AvNeutralizer malware was previously thought

Cisco just dropped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to change the password of any user, including admins. Tracked as CVE-2024-20419, the

Malware research involves studying threat actor TTPs, mapping infrastructure, analyzing novel techniques… And while most of these investigations build on existing research, sometimes they start

Cyber security workers only review major updates to software applications only 54 percent of the time, according to a poll of tech managers. That figure

Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips

Exabeam and LogRhythm – a pair of cyber security firms – finalized their merger on Wednesday, an occasion The Register understands was marked by swift

Embattled Russian infosec shop Kaspersky is giving US customers six months of security updates for free as a parting gift as Uncle Sam kicks the