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British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…
EU biometric border system launches, suffers teeting problems
The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…
China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions
China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.…
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist
Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.…
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears
The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security.…
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap
Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…
Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries
Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…
Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz
US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…
UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details
UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…
It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic
Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …
SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke
SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted.…
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort
Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…
Germany slams brakes on EU's Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest
Germany has committed to oppose the EU's controversial "Chat Control" regulations following huge pressure from multiple activists and major organizations.…
Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT
Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large number of corporate users paste Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Payment Card Industry (PCI) numbers right into ChatGPT, even if they're using the bot without permission.…
Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data
Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack.…
Police and military radio maker BK Technologies cops to cyber break-in
BK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a cyber intrusion that briefly rattled its IT systems last month.…
OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts.…
Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones
The UK is pressing ahead with cutting-edge defense projects, the latest including research to protect satellites from laser attack and a technology demonstrator for a jet-powered drone to operate from Royal Navy carriers.…
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