17 Feb

Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid

Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid. The 47-year-old was cuffed after cops

Author rabih
17 Feb

UK.gov launches cyber ‘lockdown’ campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

Britain is telling businesses to “lock the door” on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven’t even found the latch. Officials today kicked

Author rabih
17 Feb

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X’s Grok AI accused of undressing people

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk’s X following repeated reports of harmful image generation

Author rabih
17 Feb

Is it OK to let your children post selfies online?

Kids Online When it comes to our children’s digital lives, prohibition rarely works. It’s our responsibility to help them build a healthy relationship with tech.

Author rabih
17 Feb

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK’s defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain’s armed forces. Starmer

Author rabih
16 Feb

Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news

Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise. The down-filled jacket

Author rabih
16 Feb

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

Dutch police have arrested a man for “computer hacking” after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn’t hand

Author rabih
16 Feb

You probably can’t trust your password manager if it’s compromised

Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that

Author rabih
16 Feb

Open source registries don’t have enough money to implement basic security

fosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it’s not

Author rabih
16 Feb

Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface

Google has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser’s first reported zero-day of 2026. The flaw, tracked as

Author rabih
16 Feb

US appears open to reversing some China tech bans

Asia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies. Evidence of the possible change emerged on Friday

Author rabih
15 Feb

Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ

Infosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to a court

Author rabih
13 Feb

Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024

Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being

Author rabih
13 Feb

Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper

The Netherlands’ largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people. Odido

Author rabih
13 Feb

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales. This week, meet a reader

Author rabih
12 Feb

30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users’ API keys, emails, other sensitive data

More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users’ API keys, email

Author rabih
12 Feb

Who’s the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too

Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now

Author rabih
12 Feb

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an “extremely sophisticated attack” against targeted individuals. CVE-2026-20700,

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