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'It seems like they really don't have a full grasp of what's going on with this patch'

Exclusive  A Microsoft zero-day exploit that Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative team claims it found and reported to Redmond in May was disclosed and patched by the Windows giant in July's Patch Tuesday – but without any credit given to ZDI.…

Company keeps quiet amid high-profile compromises

Security researchers are claiming a spate of DNS hijackings at web3 businesses is linked to Squarespace's acquisition of Google Domains last year.…

The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory?

Ask any techie to name who leads the market for OSes, databases, networks or ERP and the answers are clear: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and SAP.…

Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more

Infosec in brief  Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached – again – and millions of purchasers can be identified from the spilled records.…

Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more

ASIA IN BRIEF  The interim CEO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has criticized China's approach to bug reporting.…

And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical

Kettle  For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security.…

15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit

CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware.…

Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh!

Two House committee chairs have sent a public letter to the White House asking it to look into a deal between AI R&D outfit G42 and Microsoft.…

Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most critical assets.…

What to do when your MFA is mercilessly attacked by hackers

Webinar  Threat actors are always looking for that easy way in by testing weak spots, and user identities are one of their favourite targets.…

Snowflake? Snowflake

AT&T has admitted that cyberattackers grabbed a load of its data for the second time this year, and if you think the first haul was big you haven't seen anything: This one includes data on "nearly all" AT&T wireless customers - and those served by mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) running on AT&T's network. …

Accessibility be damned, preventing phishing is the priority

After around two decades of allowing one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered by text message to assist log ins to bank accounts in Singapore, the city-state will abandon the authentication technique.…

Meet DodgeBox, son of StealthVector

Chinese government-backed cyber espionage gang APT41 has very likely added a loader dubbed DodgeBox and a backdoor named MoonWalk to its malware toolbox, according to cloud security service provider Zscaler’s ThreatLabz research team.…

Ultra-conservative org funnily enough not ready to turn the other cheek

After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist crew SiegedSec claims to have disbanded. …

Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon

The founder of Openwall has discovered a new signal handler race condition in the core sshd daemon used in RHEL 9.x and its various offshoots.…

Letters from CISO Ethan Steiger suggest the data related to job applications

Advance Auto Parts' CISO just revealed for the first time the number of individuals affected when criminals broke into its Snowflake instance – a hefty 2.3 million.…

Scumbag targeted many victims – and those who tried to help them

A scumbag who used to work as a privacy consultant has been put behind bars for nine years for a "grotesque" cyberstalking campaign against more than a dozen victims.…

LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware

Yet another new ransomware gang, this one dubbed EstateRansomware, is exploiting a Veeam vulnerability that was patched more than a year ago to drop file-encrypting malware, a LockBit variant, and extort payments from victims.…

Multiple malware attack saw personal data acessed, but rocket science remained safe

The Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) discovered it was under attack using zero-day exploits while working with Microsoft to probe a 2023 cyberattack on its systems.…

Company announces intent following Ticketmaster, Santander break-ins

A month after incident response giant Mandiant suggested the litany of data thefts linked to Snowflake account intrusions had the common component of lacking multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls, the cloud storage and data analytics company is offering a mandatory MFA option to admins.…