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Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown
Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations.…
Kidney dialysis giant DaVita tells 2.4M people they were snared in ransomware data theft nightmare
Ransomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita's labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people's personal and health-related information.…
Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach
Exclusive A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.…
Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware
Microsoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.…
Interpol bags 1,209 suspects, $97M in cybercrime operation focused on Africa
Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, the agency says.…
Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware
A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.…
Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason
Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons.…
Microsoft reportedly cuts China's early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code
Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notification program.…
'Impersonation as a service' the next big thing in cybercrime
English speakers adept at social engineering are a hot commodity in the cybercrime job market.…
Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned
Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems.…
Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers
It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those letters may return to empower cyber operators if a bill introduced in Congress actually manages to pass. …
Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud
A significant data theft at Orange Belgium has opened hundreds of thousands of its customers to serious cybersecurity risks.…
US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world's biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets
RapperBot, a botnet-for-hire blamed for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks, has been yanked offline by the Feds, who also hauled in its alleged Oregon-based mastermind.…
Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS
Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks.…
Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction
A week after its services were disrupted by a cyberattack, UK telco Colt Technology Services has gone back on its initial statement to confirm that data has indeed been stolen.…
Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension
Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently appears to have begun snaffling screenshots of users' page activity and transmitting them to a remote server without their knowledge – and Google has yet to take it down.…
AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders
Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute.…
China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday
China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday.…
Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass
UPDATED Microsoft has chosen not to tell customers about a recently patched vulnerability in M365 Copilot.…
Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE
Amazon has quietly fixed a couple of security issues in its coding agent: Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension. Attackers could use these vulns to leak secrets, including API keys from a developer's machine, and run arbitrary code.…
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