30 May

Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor

Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries, eight years after firing the defense firm’s founder, Palmer Luckey. Luckey joined Meta when it was still called Facebook

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30 May

Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware

Criminals are using installers for fake AI software to distribute ransomware and other destructive malware. Cisco Talos recently uncovered three of these threats, which use

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30 May

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain. Information Commissioner’s

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30 May

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – May 2025 edition

From a flurry of attacks targeting UK retailers to campaigns corralling end-of-life routers into botnets, it’s a wrap on another month filled with impactful cybersecurity

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30 May

The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force

The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men

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30 May

Infosecurity Europe 2025 drives cybersecurity priorities amid growing global risks

Partner content Infosecurity Europe celebrates its 30th anniversary by doubling down on its mission: Building a Safer Cyber World. Returning to ExCeL London from 3-5

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30 May

Security outfit SentinelOne’s services back online after lengthy outage

Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday. A company post states the incident “is impacting commercial customer consoles,” however The Register has

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30 May

Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called “pig butchering” scams

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29 May

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a

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29 May

Why is China deep in US networks? ‘They’re preparing for war,’ HR McMaster tells lawmakers

Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.

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29 May

8,000+ Asus routers popped in ‘advanced’ mystery botnet plot

Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor

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29 May

Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable. More than 93.7

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29 May

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again… for startups

The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle,

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29 May

Victoria’s Secret website laid bare for three days after ‘security incident’

Underwear retailer Victoria’s Secret’s website has been down for three days, with the company blaming an unspecified security problem. “We identified and are taking steps

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29 May

Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity

Partner content From the use of ATMs to online banking, the financial services sector has always been at the forefront of technology. Now, it’s leading

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28 May

Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged

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28 May

Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a “strict-regime” (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked sensitive data to

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28 May

The cost of compromise: Why password attacks are still winning in 2025

Sponsored feature The IT business likes to reinvent things as quickly as possible. Except passwords, that is. We’ve been using them since Roman times, only

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