28 Jan

Baguette bandits strike again with ransomware and a side of mockery

Hellcat, the ransomware crew that infected Schneider Electric and demanded $125,000 in baguettes, has aggressively targeted government, education, energy, and other critical industries since it

Author rabih
28 Jan

Protecting AWS environments from cyberthreats

Partner Content Organizations are increasingly shifting their deployments to the cloud due to its many benefits over traditional on-premises solutions. Cloud platforms like Amazon Web

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28 Jan

Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks

IT and security pros say they are more confident in their ability to manage ransomware attacks after nearly nine in ten (88 percent) were forced

Author rabih
28 Jan

Going (for) broke: 6 common online betting scams and how to avoid them

Scams Don’t roll the dice on your online safety – watch out for bogus sports betting apps and other traps commonly set by scammers Phil

Author rabih
28 Jan

Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that’s already been exploited in iOS

Apple has plugged a security hole in the software at the heart of its iPhones, iPads, Vision Pro goggles, Apple TVs and macOS Sequoia Macs, warning

Author rabih
27 Jan

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America’s allies from

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27 Jan

DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack

Updated China’s DeepSeek, which shook up American AI makers with the debut of its V3 and reasoning-capable R1 LLM families, has limited new signups to

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27 Jan

DeepSeek suspends new registrations amid cyberattack

China’s DeepSeek, which shook up US AI companies with the debut of its R1 model family, has limited new signups due to ongoing cyberattack. “Due

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27 Jan

Google takes action after coder reports ‘most sophisticated attack I’ve ever seen’

Google says it’s now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week. Zach Latta, founder of Hack Club, told

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27 Jan

Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

Swedish authorities have “seized” a vessel – believed to be the cargo ship Vezhen – “suspected of carrying out sabotage” after a cable running between Sweden

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27 Jan

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning – Future Collaboration and Continued Research

Reflections and Wider Considerations This is the final post in the series that began with reflections and learnings from the first US-UK collaboration working with

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27 Jan

CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy

Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare’s content delivery network to approximate the locations of users of apps like Signal,

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27 Jan

British Museum says ex-contractor ‘shut down’ IT systems, wreaked havoc

The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some

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25 Jan

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023. The devices

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25 Jan

UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway

UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it’s currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs. An

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24 Jan

AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud

The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he’s now

Author rabih
24 Jan

North Korean dev who renamed himself ‘Bane’ accused of IT worker fraud caper

The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea’s long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who

Author rabih
24 Jan

Don’t want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now

A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in

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