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War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports

by Connor Jones / 1h

Troopers to swap radios for Turtle Beaches in preparation for ‘21st century challenges’ The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament to upskill existing servicepeople in the digital skirmishes.…

The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over

88by Iain Thomson / 4d

Palantir, data brokers, and judicial overreach are all on the horizon, executive director Cindy Cohn warns Interview In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging online community.…

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty

Microsoft faces data sovereignty challenges

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47by Paul Kunert / 4d

Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin Microsoft says it "cannot guarantee" data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union – should the Trump administration demand access to customer information held on its servers.…

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Microsoft spotlights Apple bug patched in March as SharePoint exploits continue

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by Jessica Lyons / 14h

Look over there! Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond reported the bug to Cupertino, which issued a fix back in March.…

Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it's making everything more dangerous

by Jessica Lyons / 15h

Plus, 60% don't have enough analysts to make sense of it Too many threats, too much data, and too few skilled security analysts are making companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the IT and security leaders tasked with protecting these organizations from digital threats.…

Majority of 1.4M customers caught in Allianz Life data heist

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by Connor Jones / 22h

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Allianz Life data breach

No word on who's behind it, but attack has hallmarks of the usual suspects Financial services biz Allianz says the majority of customers of one of its North American subsidiaries had their data stolen in a cyberattack.…

Aeroflot aeroflops over 'IT issues' after attackers claim year-long compromise

Aeroflot experiences system failure disruptions

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by Connor Jones / 1d

Russia's top airline cancels 49 flights, delays affect many more Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, canceled numerous flights on Monday morning following what it says was a failure in its IT systems - something hacktivists are claiming responsiblity for.…

Jul 27, 2025

US spy satellite agency breached, but insists no classified secrets spilled

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by Iain Thomson / 1d

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CIA websites hacked sensitive information stolen

Plus, leak site for BlackSuit seized, Tea spilt, and avoid crime if you've got a famous dad Infosec in brief A computer intrusion hit the US spy satellite agency, but officials insist no classified secrets were lost - just some unclassified ones, apparently.…

Jul 26, 2025

Congress tries to outlaw AI that jacks up prices based on what it knows about you

by Iain Thomson / 2d

Surveillance-based pricing? Two lawmakers say enough Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and wages.…

Blame a leak for Microsoft SharePoint attacks, researcher insists

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by Jessica Lyons / 3d

Follow the MAPP A week after Microsoft told the world that its July software updates didn't fully fix a couple of bugs, which allowed miscreants to take over on-premises SharePoint servers and remotely execute code, researchers have assembled much of the puzzle — with one big missing piece.…

Jul 25, 2025

Senator to Google: Give us info from telco Salt Typhoon probes

Senator requests Salt Typhoon security details

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by Jessica Lyons / 3d

AT&T and Verizon refused to hand over the security assessments, says Cantwell US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has demanded that Google-owned incident response firm Mandiant hand over the Salt Typhoon-related security assessments of AT&T and Verizon that, according to the lawmaker, both operators have thus far refused to give Congress.…

Freelance dev shop Toptal caught serving malware after GitHub account break-in

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by Iain Thomson / 3d

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Toptal GitHub breach malware packages

Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.…

Advisor to Brit tech contractors Qdos confirms client data leak

by Paul Kunert / 4d

Policy management not affected, but some personal data may have been snaffled Updated Business insurance and employment status specialist Qdos has confirmed that an intruder has stolen some customers personal data, according to a communication to tech contractors that was seen by The Register .…

Jul 24, 2025

DNS security is important but DNSSEC may be a failed experiment

by Bruce Davie / 4d

Nobody thinks of running a website without HTTPs. Safer DNS still seems optional Systems Approach Last week I turned on DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) for the systemsapproach.org domain. No need to applaud; I was just trying to get an understanding of what the barriers to adoption might be while teaching myself about the technology.…

Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years

by Jessica Lyons / 4d

Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.…

Euro healthcare giant AMEOS Group shuts down IT systems after mystery attack

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Ameos healthcare data breach

Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor The AMEOS Group, which runs over 100 hospitals across Europe, has shut down its entire network after crims busted in.…

No login? No problem: Cisco ISE flaw gave root access before fix arrived, say researchers

by Carly Page / 4d

Shadowserver claims miscreants were already poking at a critical hole in early July, long before Switchzilla patched it Threat actors have actively exploited a newly patched vulnerability in Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) software since early July, weeks before the networking giant got around to issuing a fix.…

So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

Canadian researchers develop watermark removal

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by Thomas Claburn / 4d

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…

Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections

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by Jessica Lyons / 4d

Let the games begin Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…

Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds

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by Jessica Lyons / 4d

Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.…

Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

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by Tim Anderson / 4d

Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater' The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user's home directory and delete all their AWS resources.…

Eau no! Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu

Dior reports US data breach

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by Carly Page / 5d

French fashion house dishes out notices after hackers raided a client database – ShinyHunters suspected Updated Fashion house Dior has begun dropping data breach notices after cybercrooks with a taste for high-end targets made off with customer data.…

Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware

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by Tim Anderson / 5d

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Npm packages targeted by phishing

The "is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were infected with Windows-only malware.…

Jul 23, 2025

IRL Com recruits teens for real-life stabbings, shootings, FBI warns

by Jessica Lyons / 5d

From scams to violence, the crimes extend beyond the digital realm A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens for contract shootings, kidnappings, and other real-life violent crimes poses a growing threat to youth, according to the FBI.…

Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall

Brave blocks Windows screenshot feature

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by Thomas Claburn / 5d

No screenshots for you! In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default.…

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

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by Jessica Lyons / 5d

US DOE among breached government agencies More than 400 organizations have been compromised in the Microsoft SharePoint attack, according to Eye Security, which initially sounded the alarm on the mass exploitation last Friday, even before Redmond confirmed the critical vulnerabilities.…

VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches

by Simon Sharwood / 5d

Despite pledging help for those who don’t sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support Exclusive Some customers of Broadcom’s VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack.…

Three questions you should always be able to answer about your security environment

by Chris Singlemann / 5d

All security questions are hard to answer, but these three are non-negotiable Partner content We've all seen those seemingly straightforward security questions that snowball into multi-day research projects across dozens of consoles, spreadsheets, and manual queries. The reality is that even the most fundamental security questions are notoriously difficult to answer with certainty.…

$380M lawsuit claims intruder got Clorox's passwords from Cognizant simply by asking

Clorox sues Cognizant over cyberattack

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by Jude Karabus / 5d

Hand us the mind bleach, we want to flush our memories of attack Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew "enabled a cybercriminal to gain a foothold in Clorox's network" by handing over staffers' passwords to attackers after they simply requested them.…

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

AI transforms Windows 11 usage

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34by Gareth Halfacree / 5d

Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion' Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-