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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a “self-reinforcing” ecosystem, researchers say. In its latest

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than £4.6 billion in

Ransomware When corporate data is exposed on a dedicated leak site, the consequences linger long after the attack fades from the news cycle 12 Feb

A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America’s critical infrastructure used Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks

Amid its ongoing promotion of AI’s wonders, Microsoft has warned customers it has found many instances of a technique that manipulates the technology to produce

They know where you’ve been and they’re going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions that allegedly exfiltrate browsing history data

If you’ve seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to “create a caricature of me and my job based on

Telcos likely received advance warning about January’s critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise. Global Telnet traffic “fell off