theregister – Borat RAT: Multiple threat of ransomware, DDoS and spyware
Thought Sacha Baron Cohen was a terrible threat actor? Get a load of this: encrypts/steals data,...
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the register – LokiLocker ransomware family spotted with built-in wiper
BlackBerry says extortionists erase documents if ransom unpaid The Register BlackBerry security...
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theregister – Linux botnet exploits Log4j flaw to hijack Arm, x86 systems
On a plus side, their code’s not very good The Register A new Linux botnet is using the...
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theregister – Ukraine uses Clearview AI facial-recognition technology
Controversial search engine being used to identify dead and Russian operatives The Register The...
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theregister – Viasat, Rosneft hit by cyberattacks as Ukraine war spills online
One shows signs of a state-sponsored intrusion, the other potentially not The Register Signs of...
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theregister – Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware
10 days after attack ‘almost all systems’ up and running, refuses to say if ransom was...
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theregister – It’s the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected
And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified The Register FluBot, a family of...
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theregister – Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams
Smartphones now have lasers so we’re gonna use them to find voyeurs The Register Recent...
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theregister – ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone’s plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools
And they had a wildcard cert too. Still feeling secure? The Register An astonishing piece of...
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theregister – FBI spams thousands after ‘software misconfiguration’
Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose bad infosec as a public service. We want to believe...
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theregister – Shotgun targeting of malware attacks will be the defining infosec theme of 2022, reckons Sophos
And more badness going for Linux and virtualization, too The Register Future malware and...
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theregister – Let us give thanks that this November, Microsoft has given us just 55 security fixes, two of which are for actively exploited flaws
Light load has infosec bods wondering what awaits next month The register As the US season of...
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