06 Jun

Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again – this time via career platform breach

security Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that’s OK then  Oxford University students seeking work will be dismayed to learn that

Author rabih
05 Jun

If you don’t fall for these extortionists’ calls, they’ll show up with USB sticks

If they don’t get you online, they’ll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional

Author rabih
05 Jun

Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight

security Good luck, sys admins The threat is real. Unknown miscreants are exploiting a high-severity, zero-day bug in Cisco’s SD-WAN management software, and the networking

Author rabih
05 Jun

World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families

security Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain Humanitarian organization World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its systems was

Author rabih
05 Jun

Council in UK’s City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder

Security Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex A City of York Council email mishap exposed the email addresses

Author rabih
04 Jun

Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds

CYBER-CRIME A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$ A new extortion brand called Pink uses voice phishing and fake help-desk calls to gain

Author rabih
04 Jun

OpenAI’s agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds

Security Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb The next threat your server faces may have been helped along by a bot. OpenAI’s Codex agent helped uncover a

Author rabih
04 Jun

Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China’s back on the hunt for state secrets

Security Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted MI5 and its international allies are once again warning that China

Author rabih
04 Jun

Duo who sold car crash victims’ data must repay £118k

cyber-crime Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act Two former RAC workers in the UK have three months to

Author rabih
04 Jun

Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine

There’s a lot of fear surrounding the bug-finding capabilities of super-advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT 5.5-Cyber. But attackers are already using

Author rabih
04 Jun

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

SECURITY It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we talk about

Author rabih
03 Jun

Commvault says it’s time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a ‘dark, dead’ state

AI-enabled cybercriminals have better tools and are inflicting more pain on their victims, wiping out virtual machines and hypervisors and leaving infrastructure in a “dark,

Author rabih
03 Jun

Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

networks It’s hard to stop a signal jammer if you can’t locate the source, say Rice University researchers Wireless jamming attacks are on the rise.

Author rabih
03 Jun

Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

Security Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks Yet another aggrieved bug hunter has leaked a vulnerability affecting a

Author rabih
03 Jun

UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion

UK banks are set to receive access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber after being excluded from Anthropic’s latest expansion of Project Glasswing. Project Glasswing, and access

Author rabih
03 Jun

Lessons for life: Why children’s data is a long-term identity risk

Kids Online Your child’s first data breach may happen before they’ve even opened a bank account. Here’s how to keep their digital life safe. Phil

Author rabih
02 Jun

‘Dumbass’ criminal breaks the ‘first rule of ransomware club’

cyber-crime You don’t infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries Even ransomware cartels make mistakes, and in this case, it was a biggie that

Author rabih
02 Jun

Cisco sings Mythos’ praises – but doesn’t say how many bugs the model uncovered

Security Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing Bug hunting has become a whole lot more exciting in recent months with both Anthropic and

Author rabih
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