24 Apr

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

America’s telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the

Author rabih
24 Apr

ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival’s booty as 7.5M emails surface

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique

Author rabih
24 Apr

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither

Author rabih
24 Apr

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it’s gone, it no longer

Author rabih
24 Apr

Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table

Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute –

Author rabih
24 Apr

Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with … hard-to-read messages

Microsoft’s update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning

Author rabih
24 Apr

It’s a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well

Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic’s Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and

Author rabih
24 Apr

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room

Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britain should

Author rabih
24 Apr

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union’s biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the

Author rabih
24 Apr

The calm before the ransom: What you see is not all there is

Ransomware A breach claims the systems as well as the confidence that was, in retrospect, a major vulnerability Tomáš Foltýn 24 Apr 2026  •  ,

Author rabih
24 Apr

Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years

Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at

Author rabih
24 Apr

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city’s public EV chargers

Black Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over

Author rabih
23 Apr

Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: ‘I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code’

EXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days. A recruiter claiming to work for a blockchain firm

Author rabih
23 Apr

Using the password ‘admin123’ wasn’t as bad as sharing it on Slack

PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied

Author rabih
23 Apr

Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn

A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions,

Author rabih
23 Apr

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

Proton’s boss has waded into the age verification fight with a warning that sounds less like child safety and more like an identity checkpoint for

Author rabih
23 Apr

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs… Palantir

Palantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize

Author rabih
23 Apr

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals

Breaking Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world’s most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese

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