Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Business is very good for affiliates of the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group, which is very bad for the rest of...
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Feds offer $10m reward for info on alleged Russian ransomware crim – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The Feds have sanctioned a Russian national accused of using LockBit, Babuk, and Hive ransomware to extort a law enforcement...
US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A US Department of Transportation computer system used to reimburse federal government employees for commuting costs somehow suffered a security...
Barracuda Email Security Gateways bitten by data thieves – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A critical remote command injection vulnerability in some Barracuda Network devices that the vendor patched 11 days ago has been...
Criminals spent 10 days in US dental insurer’s systems extracting data of 9 million – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The criminals who hit one of the biggest government-backed dental care and insurance providers in the US earlier this year...
XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register SGI may be no more but people are still using its code – and some more of that code may...
When the popular safeguarding tool is anything but – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Webinar A software supply chain attack is a hugely painful form of infiltration which can paralyse any business or organization....
Thinking straight in the SoC: How AI erases cognitive bias – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Sponsored Feature What do bears and cyber criminals have in common? Both of them are scary, and they both have...
1. This crypto-coin is called Jimbo. 2. $8m was stolen from its devs in flash loan attack – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Just days after releasing the second – and supposedly more stable and secure – version of its decentralized finance (DeFi)...
90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A coalition of 90-plus groups, including Fight for the Future and Mozilla, will descend upon Slack’s offices in San Francisco...
Six million patients’ data feared stolen from PharMerica – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register PharMerica, one of the largest pharmacy service providers in the US, has revealed its IT systems were breached – and...
‘Strictly limit’ remote desktop – unless you like catching BianLian ransomware – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The FBI and friends have warned organizations to “strictly limit the use of RDP and other remote desktop services” to...
Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Capita is facing criticism about its security hygiene on a new front after an Amazon cloud bucket containing benefits data...
Pegasus-pusher NSO gets new owner keen on the commercial spyware biz – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Spyware maker NSO Group has a new ringleader, as the notorious biz seeks to revamp its image amid new reports...
More UK councils caught by Capita’s open AWS bucket blunder – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The bad news train keeps rolling for Capita, with more local British councils surfacing to say their data was put...
Fighting the five – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Sponsored Post Cyber criminals never stop learning so nor should you. Fresh security hacks are being concocted and deployed every...
Rigorous dev courageously lied about exec’s NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Who, Me? Wait? What? Is it Monday already? Not to fear, gentle readerfolk, for Uncle Reg is here with another...
Teen in court after ‘$600K swiped from DraftKings gamblers’ – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register An 18-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged with allegedly playing a central role in the theft of $600,000 from DraftKings...
UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has warned that independent oversight of facial recognition is at risk just...
Cisco squashes critical bugs in small biz switches – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Cisco rolled out patches for four critical security vulnerabilities in several of its network switches for small businesses that can...
New York county still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register security in brief The fallout from an eight-month-old cyber attack on a county in Long Island, New York has devolved...
IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A former IT security analyst at Oxford Biomedica has admitted, five years after the fact, to turning to the dark...
US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register When businesses go shopping for IT services, North Korea-controlled companies probably struggle to make it into many lists. Their prospects...
Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Personal and financial data describing almost 1.9 million Apria Healthcare patients and employees may have been accessed by crooks who...
Dish confirms 300,000 people’s data was exposed in February’s attack – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Dish Network has admitted that a February cybersecurity incident and associated multi-day outage led to the extraction of data on...
TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm, and content moderation – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register TikTok, the social video platform used by around 150 million people in the US, is set to hand access to...
Ads for lucrative jobs in Asia fail to mention chance of slavery as crypto-scammer – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The FBI has issued a warning about fake job ads that recruit workers into forced labor operations in Southeast Asia...
China hasn’t told Micron why it failed security review, or what its ban means – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register US memory-maker Micron has no idea why Chinese authorities have decided its products represent a security risk, or which customers...
Uncle Sam strangles criminals’ cashflow by reining in money mules – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Uncle Sam announced its commenced over 4,000 legal actions in three months — mostly harshly worded letters — to rein...
Google settles location tracking lawsuit for only $39.9M – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register in brief Google has settled another location tracking lawsuit, yet again being fined a relative pittance. Washington State Attorney General...