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Winter is coming

The US Department of Justice and Microsoft have seized 107 websites used by Russian cyberspies in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive information from US government agencies, think tanks, and other victims.…

Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to

A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found that salaries have risen over the last year to an average of $565,000 and a median of $403,000, with the top 10 percent of execs pulling in over $1 million.…

Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina

Two British-Nigerian men were sentenced for serious business email compromise schemes in the US this week, netting them millions of dollars from local government entities, construction companies, and colleges.…

Crooks 'like a sysadmin, with a malicious slant'

Exclusive  An extortionist armed with a new variant of MedusaLocker ransomware has infected more than 100 organizations a month since at least 2022, according to Cisco Talos, which recently discovered a "substantial" Windows credential data dump that sheds light on the criminal and their victims.…

Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else

Fewer than one in five Brits report being happy with the way their personal data is handled by big tech companies, yet the furthest many will go is to reject optional cookies on the web.…

With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks

Fourteen bugs in DrayTek routers — including one critical remote-code-execution flaw that received a perfect 10 out of 10 CVSS severity rating — could be abused by crooks looking to seize control of the equipment to then steal sensitive data, deploy ransomware, and launch denial-of-service attacks.…

Poor use of PHP include() strikes again

Two trivial but critical security holes have been found in Optigo's Spectra Aggregation Switch, and so far no patch is available.…

Logjam 'hurting infosec processes world over' one expert tells us as US body blows its own Sept deadline

NIST has made some progress clearing its backlog of security vulnerability reports to process – though it's not quite on target as hoped.…

Attacks began the day after public disclosure

"Patch yesterday" is the advice from infosec researchers as the latest critical vulnerability affecting Zimbra mail servers is now being mass-exploited.…

Strategies for securing intellectual property in AI systems

Webinar  As enterprises increasingly incorporate AI, the challenge of protecting private intellectual property (IP) often becomes more difficult.…

Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) protocol has "software vulnerabilities, inconsistent specifications, and operational challenges" according to a pre-press paper from a trio of German researchers.…

And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid

Building on the success of what's known around here as LockBit Leak Week in February, the authorities say they've arrested a further four individuals with ties to the now-scuppered LockBit ransomware empire.…

Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services

The relationship between infamous cybercrime outfit Evil Corp and the Russian state is thought to be extraordinarily close, so close that intelligence officials allegedly ordered the criminals to carry out cyberattacks on NATO members.…

Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks

The latest installment of the National Crime Agency's (NCA) series of ransomware revelations from February's LockBit Leak Week emerges today as the agency identifies a man it not only believes is a member of the long-running Evil Corp crime group but also a LockBit affiliate.…

Full names, contact details, and company info – all the fixings for a phishing holiday

Data allegedly belonging to more than 304,000 customers of Australian camera and tech e-tailer digiDirect has been leaked to an online cyber crime forum.…

Intruders accessed internal web servers, limited info ... customers told not to worry

Exclusive  Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its internal performance monitoring environment. That intrusion forced the cloud-hosting outfit to temporarily take its monitoring dashboard offline for customers.…

Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled

Ransomware scumbags have caused a vital hospital to turn away ambulances after infecting its computer systems with malware.…

At least seven intrusions in five years? Yeah, those promises of improvement more than 'long overdue'

T-Mobile US has agreed to fork out $31.5 million to improve its cybersecurity and pay a fine after a string of network intrusions affected millions of customers between 2021 and 2023.…

It's election year for more than 50 countries and the Islamic Republic threatens a bunch of them

US and UK national security agencies are jointly warning about Iranian spearphishing campaigns, which remain an ongoing threat to various industries and governments.…

Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics

A study by the US General Services Administration (GSA) has revealed that five remote identity verification (RiDV) technologies are unreliable, inconsistent, and marred by bias across different demographic groups.…