UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors
Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine
Cyber-crime01 Nov 2024 | 16
Cyber-crime
LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer
A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin
Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 11
Tower PC case used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer
Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth
Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 55
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2024 | 13
Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info
If you're gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks
Security30 Oct 2024 | 57
Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive
The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel
Cyber-crime30 Oct 2024 | 17
Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware
Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea
Cyber-crime29 Oct 2024 | 4
Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting
US also charges an alleged Redline dev, no mention of an arrest
Cyber-crime29 Oct 2024 | 1
Feds investigate China's Salt Typhoon amid campaign phone hacks
'They're taunting us,' investigator says and it looks like it's working
Security28 Oct 2024 | 5
Brazen crims selling stolen credit cards on Meta's Threads
Exclusive The platform 'continues to take action' against illegal posts, we're told
Cyber-crime28 Oct 2024 | 20
Dutch cops pwn the Redline and Meta infostealers, leak 'VIP' aliases
Legal proceedings underway with more details to follow
Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2024 | 5
Putin's pro-Trump trolls accuse Harris of poaching rhinos
Plus: Iran's IRGC probes election-related websites in swing states
Security25 Oct 2024 | 85
Ransomware's ripple effect felt across ERs as patient care suffers
389 US healthcare orgs infected this year alone
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 1
Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams
All for the low, low price of a mere dollar
Security24 Oct 2024 | 23
Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns
Don't ignore this nasty zero day exploit says TAG
Cyber-crime24 Oct 2024 | 10
'Satanic' data thief claims to have slipped into 350M Hot Topic shoppers info
We know where you got your skinny jeans - big deal
Cyber-crime23 Oct 2024 | 2
Akira ransomware is encrypting victims again following pure extortion fling
Crooks revert to old ways for greater efficiency
Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2024 | 2
Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files
Miscreants combine it with an equally tricky piece of social engineering
Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2024 | 34
China’s Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms
Note to Xi: Marco and Ted Cruz aren't the same person
Security21 Oct 2024 | 8
Alleged Bitcoin crook faces 5 years after SEC's X account pwned
SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 14
Popular
If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap
60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation
This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30
MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last
Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running
On Call Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea
Tower PC case used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer
Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth
LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer
A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs
Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money
Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs
Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration
Activists press Redmond to come clean on ‘material reputational, legal, and operational risks’
STORIES
ESET denies it was compromised as Israeli orgs targeted with 'ESET-branded' wipers
Says 'limited' incident isolated to 'partner company'
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 3
Biz hired, and fired, a fake North Korean IT worker – then the ransom demands began
'My webcam isn't working today' is the new 'The dog ate my network'
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 41
Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak
Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers
Security17 Oct 2024 |
Brazilian police claim they've cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks
Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 3
Anonymous Sudan isn't any more: Two alleged operators named, charged
Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 5
US contractor pays $300K to settle accusation it didn't properly look after Medicare users' data
Resolves allegations it improperly stored screenshots containing PII that were later snaffled
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 7
Volkswagen monitoring data dump threat from 8Base ransomware crew
The German car giant appears to be unconcerned
Cyber-crime16 Oct 2024 | 1
Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data
UPDATED Networking giant says 'no evidence' of impact on its systems but will tell customers if their info has been stolen
Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 | 7
Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption
Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report
Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 | 6
China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it
Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 17
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 8
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2024 | 33
US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants
Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 10
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 54
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health
Updated Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers
But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse
Cyber-crime10 Oct 2024 | 3
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 36
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'
Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 15
Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 22
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware
USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 24
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 9
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 65
Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned
Pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for Russian state broadcasting shutdown
Security08 Oct 2024 | 82
Feds reach for sliver of crypto-cash nicked by North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group
A couple million will do for a start … but Kim's crews are suspected of stealing much more
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 2
American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app
Updated It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2024 | 12
Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic
Security07 Oct 2024 | 6
About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector
Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks
Updated Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam
Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 13
Euro cops arrest 4 including suspected LockBit dev chilling on holiday
And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 | 15
Evil Corp's deep ties with Russia and NATO member attacks exposed
Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services
Cyber-crime01 Oct 2024 | 9
NCA unmasks man it suspects is both 'Evil Corp kingpin' and LockBit affiliate
Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 |
Australian e-tailer digiDirect customers' info allegedly stolen and dumped online
Full names, contact details, and company info – all the fixings for a phishing holiday
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 | 1
Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances
Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled
Cybersecurity Month30 Sep 2024 | 19
If you're holding important data, Iran is probably trying spearphish it
It's election year for more than 50 countries and the Islamic Republic threatens a bunch of them
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 6
Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 5
Feds charge 3 Iranians with 'hack-and-leak' of Trump 2024 campaign
Snoops allegedly camped out in inboxes well into September
Cyber-crime27 Sep 2024 | 12
Victims lose $70K to one single wallet-draining app on Google's Play Store
Attackers got 10K people to download 'trusted' web3 brand cheat before Mountain View intervened
Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 22
Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations
Updated See it, say it… not sorted just yet as network access remains offline
Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 62
RansomHub genius tries to put the squeeze on Delaware Libraries
Extorting underfunded public services for $1M isn't a good look
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 5
China claims Taiwan, not civilians, behind web vandalism
Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 2
Russia's digital warfare on Ukraine shows no signs of slowing: Malware hits surge
Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure
Cyber-crime24 Sep 2024 | 9
How to spot a North Korean agent before they get comfy inside payroll
Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff
Cyber-crime24 Sep 2024 | 19
'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting
Still no ‘R’ word, but smells like ransomware from here
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 6
Necro malware continues to haunt side-loaders of dodgy Android mods
Updated 11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 2
US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist
Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks
Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 26
Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data
Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach
Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 10
Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims
Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 7
Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them
To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 50
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 25
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds
Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 22
Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life?
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 1
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT
Exclusive Getting sloppy, Xi
CSO18 Sep 2024 | 32
Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform
Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 18
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared
Feature 'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 29
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 9
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M
Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up
Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 2
Chinese national accused by Feds of spear-phishing for NASA, military source code
May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development
Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 6
Germany’s CDU still struggling to restore data months after June cyberattack
Putting a spanner in work for plans of opposition party to launch a comeback during next year's elections
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 1
Prison just got rougher as band of heinously violent cybercrims sentenced to lengthy stints
Orchestrators of abductions, torture, crypto thefts, and more get their comeuppance
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 20
Cambodian senator sanctioned by US over alleged forced labor cyber-scam camps
Do not go on holiday to the O Smach Resort
Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 8
Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech
With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist'
Public Sector13 Sep 2024 | 41
Feds pull plug on domains linked to import of Chinese gun conversion devices
Illegal goods allegedly shipped to the US labeled as toys or jewels
Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 30
Fortinet admits miscreant got hold of customer data in the cloud
That would explain this 440GB leak, then
Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 5
'Hadooken' Linux malware targets Oracle WebLogic servers
Nastyware seeks creds, mines crypto, and plants ransomware that isnt deployed - for now?
Security13 Sep 2024 | 3
I stole 20 GB of data from Capgemini – and now I'm leaking it, says cybercrook
Updated Allegedly pilfered database has source code, private keys, staff info, T-Mobile VM logs, more
Cyber-crime12 Sep 2024 | 20
Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline
NCA confirms arrest of 17-year-old 'on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences' – now bailed
Cyber-crime12 Sep 2024 | 66
Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected
No class: Black Suit ransomware gang boasts of 200GB haul from one raid
Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 45
Major sales and ops overhaul leads to much more activity ... for Meow ransomware gang
You hate to see it
Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 1
Hunters International cyber-gang extorts Chinese mega-bank's London HQ
Allegedly swiped more than 5.2M files and threatens to publish the lot
Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 7
So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work
A really big oh sh*t moment, for sure
Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 69
Crypto scams rake in $5.6B a year for cyberscum lowlifes, FBI says
Elderly people report the greatest losses
Cyber-crime10 Sep 2024 | 7
Avis alerts nearly 300K car renters that crooks stole their info
Updated 'Insider wrongdoing' to blame for security breach
Cyber-crime09 Sep 2024 | 13
1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in
Criminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details
Cyber-crime09 Sep 2024 | 17
Despite cyberattacks, water security standards remain a pipe dream
Feature White House floats round two of regulations
Cyber-crime07 Sep 2024 | 19
Uncle Sam charges Russian GRU cyber-spies behind 'WhisperGate intrusions'
Feds post $10M bounty for each of the six's whereabouts
Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 7
The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues
Network admins take a ride on the Fright Bus
Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 48
North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns
Feds warn of 'highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns'
Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 8
Planned Parenthood confirms cyber-attack as RansomHub threatens to leak data
93GB of info feared pilfered in Montana by heartless crooks
Cyber-crime04 Sep 2024 | 20
Cicada ransomware may be a BlackCat/ALPHV rebrand and upgrade
Researchers find many similarities, and nasty new customizations such as embedded compromised user credentials
Research04 Sep 2024 |
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