18 Aug

Every question you ask, every comment you make, I’ll be recording you

Opinion Recently, OpenAI ChatGPT users were shocked – shocked, I tell you! – to discover that their searches were appearing in Google search. You morons!

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18 Aug

Investors beware: AI-powered financial scams swamp social media

Can you tell the difference between legitimate marketing and deepfake scam ads? It’s not always as easy as you may think. Phil Muncaster 18 Aug

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18 Aug

Someone’s poking the bear with infostealers targeting Russian crypto developers

Researchers at software supply chain security outfit Safety think they’ve found malware that targets Russian cryptocurrency developers, and perhaps therefore Russia’s state-linked ransomware crews Safety’s

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17 Aug

P2P payment service Zelle sued for enabling payment fraud hell

Infosec In Brief New York State is suing bank-owned peer-to-peer payment app Zelle, claiming that the banks behind it knew fraud was rampant on the

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16 Aug

Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds’ support in 2026

Feature Bill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election. “That’s

Author rabih
15 Aug

Typhoon-adjacent Chinese crew broke into Taiwanese web host

A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix

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15 Aug

LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins

A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’

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15 Aug

Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole

Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to

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15 Aug

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country. The

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15 Aug

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a “cyber incident” is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a number of

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15 Aug

LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins

A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’

Author rabih
15 Aug

Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

Register debate series It’s a lot of money, £9 billion ($12 billion). Especially for a government which finds itself — for whatever reason — in

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14 Aug

Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it

At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool

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14 Aug

Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?

Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as

Author rabih
14 Aug

‘MadeYouReset’ HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers

Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have published details of a “common design flaw” in implementations of the HyperText Transfer Protocol

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14 Aug

Lock down your critical infrastructure, CISA begs admins

CISA is urging companies with operational technology environments to set a better cybersecurity posture, and not just by adopting some new best practices and purchasing

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14 Aug

BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist

Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk is halting all deposits and withdrawals amid fears that blockchain bandits succeeded in significantly compromising its hot wallets. Mozilla founder blasts

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14 Aug

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama

Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court’s creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a

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