Several French government websites have been disrupted by a severe distributed denial of service attack. A statement from prime minister Gabriel Attal’s office acknowledged that

The Biden administration and US lawmakers are turning up the pressure on UnitedHealth group to ease medical providers’ pain after the ransomware attack on Change

The Kremlin has accused the United States of meddling in Russia’s upcoming presidential election, and even accused Uncle Sam of planning a cyberattack on the

The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023. Rhysida broke into

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on “consent or pay” business models. We’re sure readers of The Register will have a

Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the “holy grail” of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year,

There’s yet another group of miscreants out there hijacking insecure Ivanti devices: A new, financially motivated gang dubbed Magnet Goblin has emerged from the shadowy

“Jessica” cost him one million dollars.   In an account to Forbes, one man described how he met “Jessica” online.i Readily, they formed a friendship. Turns

Microsoft has now confirmed that the Russian cyberspies who broke into its executives’ email accounts stole source code and gained access to internal systems. The

Change Healthcare has taken the first steps toward a full recovery from the ransomware attack in February by bringing its electronic prescription services back online.

Video Evasive Panda has been spotted targeting Tibetans in several countries and territories with payloads that included a previously undocumented backdoor ESET has named Nightdoor

The Swiss government had around 65,000 files related to it stolen by the Play ransomware gang during an attack on an IT supplier, its National

International Women’s Day 2024’s theme, #InspireInclusion, reminds us that genuine change requires going beyond individual actions. It’s about fostering an environment where all women feel

Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in “strange places.” On its engineering blog, the Australian

The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain

Millions of Chrome users now have a way to guard against the threat of extension subversion, that is, if they don’t mind installing yet another

A group of 41 US state attorneys general, tired of serving as a customer complaint clearinghouse for Facebook and Instagram users, have sent a letter

Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000