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Four Chocolate Factory trackers cracked the Top 25 in all regions

Google, once again, is the "undisputed leader" when it comes to monitoring people's behavior on the internet, according to Kaspersky's annual web tracking report.…

Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure

Russia's use of malware to support its military efforts in Ukraine is showing no signs of waning while its tactics continually evolve to bypass protections.…

Thousands of devices remain vulnerable, US most exposed to the threat

Tens of thousands of fuel storage tanks in critical infrastructure facilities remain vulnerable to zero-day attacks due to buggy Automatic Tank Gauge systems from multiple vendors, say infosec researchers. …

Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff

Against a backdrop of rising exposure to North Korean agents seeking (mainly) US IT roles, organizations now have a cheat sheet to help spot potential operatives.…

How to protect personal data

Partner Content  For people who haven't personally experienced them, terms like data leak or data breach may seem unfamiliar and foreign - much like visiting a new destination abroad.…

Back story to replacement for banned security app isn't enormously reassuring

Some US-based users of Kaspersky antivirus products have found their software replaced by product from by a low-profile entity named "UltraAV" – a change they didn't ask for, and which has delivered them untested and largely unknown software from a source with a limited track record.…

Maybe a spell in a French cell changed Durov's mind

In a volte-face, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the made-in-Russia messaging platform will become a lot less cozy for criminals.…

Still no ‘R’ word, but smells like ransomware from here

A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running.…

11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says

The Necro trojan is once again making a move against Android users, with up to eleven million individuals thought to be exposed to infected apps.…

No room for your spy mobiles on our streets

The US Commerce Department has decided not to wait for the inevitable, and today announced plans that would ban connected vehicle technology - and vehicles using it - from Chinese and Russian sources.…

34,000 engineers pledged to the cause, but no word on exec pay

Microsoft took a victory lap today, touting the 34,000 full-time engineers it has dedicated to its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) since it launched almost a year ago and making public its first progress report on efforts to improve security in its products and services.…

That 'third party' person sure is responsible for a lot of IT blunders, eh?

A major IT hardware manufacturer is correcting a recent security update after customers complained of a password character limit being introduced when there previously wasn't one.…

No malware crew linked to this latest red-teaming tool yet

Attackers are using Splinter, a new post-exploitation tool, to wreak havoc in victims' IT environments after initial infiltration, utilizing capabilities such as executing Windows commands, stealing files, collecting cloud service account info, and downloading additional malware onto victims' systems.…

PLUS: Payer of $75M ransom reportedly identified; Craigslist founder becomes security philanthropist, and more

Infosec In Brief  Something's wrong with macOS Sequoia, and it's breaking security software installed on some updated Apple systems.…

Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks

Two individuals are in cuffs and facing serious charges in connection to a major theft of cryptocurrency worth more than $230 million from a single victim.…

Fears over chained attacks affecting EOL product

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just added the latest Ivanti weakness to its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, a situation sure to annoy some – given that it's yet another path traversal flaw.…

Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach

High-end British department store Harvey Nichols is writing to customers to confirm some of their data was exposed in a recent cyberattack.…

Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret'

Software developers who ship buggy, insecure code are the real villains in the cyber crime story, Jen Easterly, boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has argued.…

Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg

A California city, a Spanish fashion giant, an Indian paper manufacturer, and two pharmaceutical companies are the alleged victims of what looks like a new ransomware gang that started leaking stolen info this week.…

Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals

Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that's perhaps far more vast than most people realize, and it desperately needs regulation. …