03 Apr

Hybrid work, expanded risk: what needs to change

Webinar Promo The shift to hybrid work has reshaped the enterprise perimeter. Users are logging in from home networks, shared spaces and unmanaged devices, while

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02 Apr

They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of

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02 Apr

The company’s biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register’s new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is

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02 Apr

AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was ‘one of thousands’ hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack

AI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was “one of thousands of companies” affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise

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01 Apr

Amazon security boss: AI makes pentesting 40% more efficient

interview Amazon has seen a 40 percent efficiency gain by using AI tools to pentest its products before and after launch, according to security chief

Author rabih
01 Apr

‘People’s Panel’ to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

The UK government will spend about £630,000 running a discussion panel on its digital identity card plans, which minister James Frith said will “consider different

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01 Apr

Digital assets after death: Managing risks to your loved one’s digital estate

Digital Security Fraudsters often target the accounts of the deceased or their grieving relatives. Here’s how to keep the scammers at bay. Phil Muncaster 01

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01 Apr

UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks

Nearly 80 percent of British manufacturers say they’ve been hit by a cyber incident in the past year, as new research suggests disruption on the

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31 Mar

Don’t open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns

Be careful what you click on. Miscreants are abusing WhatsApp messages in a multi-stage attack that delivers malicious Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages, allowing criminals to

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31 Mar

Iran targets M365 accounts with password-spraying attacks

Suspected Iran-linked threat actors are conducting password-spraying attacks against hundreds of organizations, primarily Middle Eastern municipalities, in campaigns that security researchers believe may have been

Author rabih
31 Mar

Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines

One of npm’s most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer’s account and slipped a remote-access

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31 Mar

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – March 2026 edition

The past four weeks have seen a slew of new cybersecurity wake-up calls that showed why every organization needs a well-thought-out cyber-resilience plan 31 Mar

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30 Mar

OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS

OpenAI talks up data security for its AI services, yet Check Point says that ChatGPT allowed data to leak through a DNS side channel before

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30 Mar

Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach

infosec in brief The cybercrime crew linked to the Trivy supply-chain attack has struck again, this time pushing malicious Telnyx package versions to PyPI in

Author rabih
30 Mar

Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat

In-the-wild exploitation of a critical Citrix NetScaler bug has begun less than a week after disclosure, with researchers warning that attackers are already poking and

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30 Mar

European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else

The European Commission has admitted that attackers broke into its public-facing web infrastructure and siphoned off data in a bare-bones disclosure that answers the what

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30 Mar

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew’s viral indifference

Who, Me? The week before Easter may be a short one for many in the Reg-reading world, but that won’t stop us from opening it

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30 Mar

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

The United States’ ban on foreign-made SOHO routers won’t improve security, and only makes sense as “industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity,” according to Milton Mueller,

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