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Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

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33by Jessica Lyons / 3d
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20 TTPs
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AI scams exploit user trust
Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive info, according to Mandiant.…

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Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find

DIA employee charged with espionage
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by Connor Jones / 20h
28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in a public park.…

Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor

Anduril partners with Meta for XR
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by Thomas Claburn / 22h
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.…

May 29, 2025

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

GMP reprimanded for CCTV failings
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by Lindsay Clark / 1d
Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain.…

The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force

UK invests £1 billion in cyber warfare
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by Iain Thomson / 1d
War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men and women to join up and staff it.…

Infosecurity Europe 2025 drives cybersecurity priorities amid growing global risks

Infosecurity Europe 2025 features keynotes
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by Infosecurity Europe / 1d
30-year anniversary event adds classes and sessions to address new risks Partner content Infosecurity Europe celebrates its 30th anniversary by doubling down on its mission: Building a Safer Cyber World. Returning to ExCeL London from 3-5 June, the landmark edition of Europe's most influential cybersecurity event is set to be its most ambitious yet. With global cyberthreats mounting in scale and

Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

US sanctions Funnull Technology for scams
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by Iain Thomson / 1d
Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

by Iain Thomson / 1d
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to dodge the update.…

8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot

12 TTPs
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by Connor Jones / 1d
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CVE-2023-39780
No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.…

Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security

Hackers sell 94 billion stolen cookies
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by Connor Jones / 2d
Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable.…

May 28, 2025

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

EU launches strategy for startups
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by Dan Robinson / 2d
Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle, from startup through to maturity.…

Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity

by Richard Beck, portfolio director – cyber, QA / 2d
The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge Sponsored Post From the use of ATMs to online banking, the financial services sector has always been at the forefront of technology. Now, it's leading the charge in AI. In their third annual survey of financial institutions the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority found 75% of comp

Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

Impact (Enterprise TA0040)
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by Connor Jones / 2d
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LexisNexis data breach exposes 364K
Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…

The cost of compromise: Why password attacks are still winning in 2025

by Robin Birtstone / 3d
Poor password management is responsible for thousands of data breaches, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Sponsored feature The IT business likes to reinvent things as quickly as possible. Except passwords, that is. We've been using them since Roman times, only now they're digital. They're the fungal skin disease of tech; irritating and hard to get rid of.…

May 27, 2025

ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it

Asus unveils new AI PCs
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by Simon Sharwood / 3d
Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements Computex Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to Shawn Chang, Head of Go-To-Market for the outfit’s Commercial Business Unit.…

New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack

IoC > 1 domain
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by Jessica Lyons / 3d
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7 TTPs
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Void Blizzard targets NATO organizations
Dutch intel services, Microsoft go big-game hunting A previously unknown Kremlin-linked group has conducted cyber-espionage operations against Dutch police, NATO member states, Western tech companies, and other organizations of interest to the Russian government since at least April 2024, according to Dutch intelligence services and Microsoft.…

Adidas confirms criminals stole data from customer service provider

3 TTPs
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by Connor Jones / 4d
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Adidas suffers consumer data breach
Hackers take personal data bytes from the brand with three stripes Adidas is warning customers some of their data was stolen after an "unauthorized" person lifted it from a "third-party customer service provider."…

May 25, 2025

TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed

22by Iain Thomson / 5d
PLUS: Interpol kills more malware; GoDaddy settles in awful infosec case; Giant stolen creds DB exposed Infosec In Brief Secrets of the Trump administration may have been exposed after a successful attack on messaging service TeleMessage, which has been used by some officials.…

China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme

by Simon Sharwood / 5d
PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto Asia In Brief China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity scheme that will mean they can use one logon across multiple online services.…

May 24, 2025

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

by Jessica Lyons / 6d
Michael Daniel also thinks Uncle Sam should increase help to orgs hit by ransomware INTERVIEW Uncle Sam's cybersecurity apparatus can't only focus on China and other nation-state actors, but also has to fight the much bigger damage from plain old cybercrime, says former White House advisor Michael Daniel. And the Trump administration's steep cuts to federal government staff are making that a lot

Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome

33by Iain Thomson / 7d
The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered Obituary John Young, the co-founder of the legendary internet archive Cryptome, died at the age of 89 on March 28. The Register talked to friends and peers who gave tribute to a bright, pugnacious man who was devoted to the public's right to know.…

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