02 Dec

India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset

India’s government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given

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01 Dec

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people’s data to

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01 Dec

Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree

Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi

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01 Dec

Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase

Young threat actors may be rebels without a cause. These cybercriminals typically grow out of their offending ways by the time they turn 20, according

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01 Dec

South Korea’s answer to Amazon admits breach exposed 33.7M customers

South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company’s famed “Rocket

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01 Dec

French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach

The French Football Federation (FFF) has conceded that attackers broke into its member management software using a compromised account, scoring a match sheet’s worth of

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01 Dec

Oversharing is not caring: What’s at stake if your employees post too much online

Social Media From LinkedIn to X, GitHub to Instagram, there are plenty of opportunities to share work-related information. But posting could also get your company

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01 Dec

Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs

Asia in Brief Singapore’s government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages. The Ministry of Home Affairs announced it had sent

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01 Dec

Swiss government says give M365, and all SaaS, a miss as it lacks end-to-end encryption

Infosec In Brief Switzerland’s Conference of Data Protection Officers, Privatim, last week issued a resolution calling on Swiss public bodies to avoid using hyperscale clouds

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28 Nov

PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle

PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was “the largest and most impactful security incident” it’s ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into

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28 Nov

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files. An advert posted to a

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28 Nov

GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France’s privacy stance

French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company’s servers over concerns about

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28 Nov

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – November 2025 edition

Data exposure by top AI companies, the Akira ransomware haul, Operation Endgame against major malware families, and more of this month’s cybersecurity news 28 Nov

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28 Nov

TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash

Cybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity.

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28 Nov

OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day

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28 Nov

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name

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28 Nov

Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later

South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a

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27 Nov

Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support sites

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest. Researchers

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