Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A US court has rejected spyware vendor NSO Group’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple that alleges the...
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Major IT outage at Europe’s largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The UK’s Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) is battling a suspected cyberattack with members reporting widespread IT outages for the...
Using GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers? Patch now – an exploit’s out for a critical bug – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Security experts are wasting no time in publishing working exploits for a critical vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, which was...
What Microsoft’s latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Comment For most organizations – especially security vendors – disclosing a corporate email breach, in which executives’ internal messages and...
COVID-19 test lab accused of exposing 1.3 million patient records to open internet – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A password-less database containing an estimated 1.3 million sets of Dutch COVID-19 testing records was left exposed to the open...
GCHQ’s NCSC warns of ‘realistic possibility’ AI will help state-backed malware evade detection – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The idea that AI could generate super-potent and undetectable malware has been bandied about for years – and also already...
CISA boss swatted: ‘While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique’ – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register CISA Director Jen Easterly has confirmed she was the subject of a swatting attempt on December 30 after a bogus...
Accused PII seller faces jail for running underground fraud op – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A Baltimore man faces a potential maximum 20-year prison sentence after being charged for his alleged role in running an...
UK water giant admits attackers broke into system as gang holds it to ransom – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Southern Water confirmed this morning that criminals broke into its IT systems, making off with a “limited amount of data.”...
Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Australia’s government has used the “significant cyber incidents” sanctions regime it introduced in 2021 for the first time, against a...
Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register More than 600 IP addresses are launching thousands of exploit attempts against CVE-2023-22527 – a critical bug in out–of-date versions...
Slug slimes aerospace biz AerCap with ransomware, brags about 1TB theft – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register AerCap, the world’s largest aircraft leasing company, has reported a ransomware infection that occurred earlier this month, but claims it...
EFF adds Street Surveillance Hub so Americans can check who’s checking on them – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register For a country that prides itself on being free, America does seem to have an awful lot of spying going...
Ivanti and Juniper Networks accused of bending the rules with CVE assignments – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Critics are accusing major tech companies of not sticking to the rules when it comes to registering vulnerabilities with the...
Subway’s data torpedoed by LockBit, ransomware gang claims – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The LockBit ransomware gang is claiming an attack on submarine sandwich slinger Subway, alleging it has made off with a...
ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe...
Safeguarding against the global ransomware threat – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Sponsored Feature Ransomware is used by cybercriminals to steal and encrypt critical business data before demanding payment for its restoration....
BreachForums admin ‘Pompourin’ sentenced to 20 years of supervised release – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register in brief Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka “Pompourin,” a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced...
Russians invade Microsoft exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A VMware security vulnerability has been exploited by Chinese cyberspies since late 2021, according to Mandiant, in what has been...
Five ripped off IT giant with $7M+ in bogus work expenses, prosecutors claim – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Five people have been accused of pulling off a “brazen” scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake...
Thieves steal 35.5M customers’ data from Vans sneakers maker – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register VF Corporation, parent company of clothes and footwear brands including Vans and North Face, says 35.5 million customers were impacted...
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that...
US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday...
JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day,...
Future of America’s Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the...
Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some...
Two more Citrix NetScaler bugs exploited in the wild – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Two vulnerabilities in NetScaler’s ADC and Gateway products have been fixed – but not before criminals found and exploited them,...
Google TAG: Kremlin cyber spies move into malware with a custom backdoor – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Russian cyberspies linked to the Kremlin’s Federal Security Service (FSB) are moving beyond their usual credential phishing antics and have...
Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old...
Enter the era of platform-based cloud security – Source: go.theregister.com
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Sponsored Post Reports suggest that forward-looking organisations are ditching legacy point-based cloud security offerings and replacing them with more efficient...