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Firm halts trades after seeing $230 million disappear

Indian crypto exchange WazirX has revealed it lost virtual assets valued at over $230 million after a cyber attack that has since been linked to North Korea.…

Run by the NSA, the FBI, and Five Eyes nations, who fooled infosec researchers, apparently

China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact made up by the US intelligence community.…

Russia-invaded software biz 'grateful for the support we have received'

A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America's financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and the backdooring of its Orion product.…

Stick an independent probe in our software, you won't find any Putin.DLL backdoor

Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products – by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not backdoored by the Kremlin.…

Major vendors' products scuppered by novel techniques

Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs.…

You’re going to want to patch this one

Cisco just dropped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to change the password of any user, including admins.…

Complicated, costly, time-consuming – pick three

Cyber security workers only review major updates to software applications only 54 percent of the time, according to a poll of tech managers.…

Nothing else can detect attackers with implants designed to foil physical security

Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips that have the potential to enable novel attacks on access control tools.…

Unconfirmed reports suggest 30 percent reduction in headcount

Exabeam and LogRhythm – a pair of cyber security firms – finalized their merger on Wednesday, an occasion The Register understands was marked by swift job cuts and shareholder action to investigate the transaction.…

So long, farewell, do svidaniya, goodbye

Embattled Russian infosec shop Kaspersky is giving US customers six months of security updates for free as a parting gift as Uncle Sam kicks the antivirus maker out of the American market.…

Millions more spent without any improvement in recovery times

Costs associated with ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations skyrocketed in the past year.…

You escaped a big fat fine! Take the win and run, won’t you?

London's inner city district of Hackney says the UK's data protection watchdog has misunderstood and "exaggerated" details surrounding a ransomware attack on its systems in 2020.…

Ozzie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial

Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court of England and Wales, whose judge has suggested he be investigated for perjury.…

India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise

MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it's used to target Israeli organizations.…

Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork

The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups.…

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Move follows Instagram and Facebook owner's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests

A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta’s change of privacy policy which allows it to scrape user data to develop AI models.…

Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices

The FBI on Monday revealed it has gained access to a phone it says was used by Thomas Matthew Crooks – the man who shot at and wounded former US president Donald Trump on July 13 in an apparent failed assassination attempt.…

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

The DarkGate malware family has become more prevalent in recent months after one of its main competitors was taken down by the FBI.…

After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab

Kaspersky has confirmed it will shutter its American operations and cut US-based jobs following President Biden's ban on the Russian business last month.…