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54by Jessica Lyons / 4d
Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected Exclusive A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition – and, in some tests, freezing the host system.…
Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro, and ordered work that could see it enter circulation in 2029.…
Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.…
Oct 31, 2025
Rare case of the state turning on its own, but researchers say it may be doing so more often Russia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested three suspects it believes helped build and spread the Meduza infostealer.…
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by Connor Jones / 2d
Bitcoin bridge biz offers 10 percent reward to attackers if they play nice Blockchain company Garden admits it was compromised and temporarily shut down its app after approximately $11 million worth of assets were stolen.…
by Richard Speed / 2d
Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives OpenInfra Summit Sovereignty might be the word of the hour, but the OpenStack community has another – resilience.…
Oct 30, 2025
by Owen Hughes / 2d
Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.…
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by Jessica Lyons / 3d
Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that Microsoft hasn't fixed yet – to target European diplomats in an effort to steal defense and national security details.…
Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves Some orgs would rather you not know when they've suffered a cyberattack, but a new platform from privacy-focused tech firm Proton will shine a light on the big breaches that might otherwise stay buried.…
Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.…
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by Carly Page / 3d
PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded, making them particularly difficult for security apps to identify.…
by Connor Jones / 3d
Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.…
by Richard Speed / 3d
Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount Comment Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.…
Oct 29, 2025
The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets.…
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by Connor Jones / 4d
Emails confirm payroll and bank details lifted in cyberattack on US subsidiary Global marketing giant Dentsu is writing to current and former staff after a cyberattack on a subsidiary led to bank, payroll, and other sensitive data being stolen.…
by Paul Kunert / 4d
ICO fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after receiving 19,138 complaints Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message.…
Oct 28, 2025
by Lindsay Clark / 4d
Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.…
by Connor Jones / 4d
Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise Germany's infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation's Exchange boxes are still running out-of-support software, a fortnight after Microsoft axed versions 2016 and 2019.…
Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online.…
Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.…
by Avram Piltch / 5d
Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse Feature With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection.…
by Connor Jones / 5d
Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme data breach.…
Ad and cloud biz rubbishes claims that 183 million accounts broken into Panic spread faster than a phishing email on Tuesday after claims of a massive Gmail breach hit the headlines – but Google says it's all nonsense.…
Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media.…
Oct 27, 2025
by Lindsay Clark / 5d
Move follows months-long procurement process as retailer refreshes parts of its IT support setup UK retailer Marks & Spencer has replaced Tata Consultancy Services as its IT service desk provider following a procurement process that began in January.…
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by Jessica Lyons / 5d
If at first you don’t succeed, patch and patch again More threat intel teams are sounding the alarm about a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59287 and now under active exploitation, just days after Microsoft pushed an emergency patch and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the bug to its Known Exploit
by Connor Jones / 6d
Ravin Academy confirms the intrusion on Telegram, says student data was stolen Iran's school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students.…
61by Brandon Vigliarolo / 6d
Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…
NeuralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless URL.…
by Connor Jones / 6d
Social media site dispatches crucial clarification days after curious announcement X (formerly Twitter) sparked security concerns over the weekend when it announced users must re-enroll their security keys by November 10 or face account lockouts — without initially explaining why.…
35by Joe Fay / 6d
Jen Easterly says most breaches stem from bad software, and smarter tech could finally clean it up Ex-CISA head Jen Easterly claims AI could spell the end of the cybersecurity industry, as the sloppy software and vulnerabilities that criminals rely on will be tracked down faster than ever.…
Oct 26, 2025
Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the pen, critics continue to point out the convention’s flaws.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 6d
PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more! Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1" (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his frame. But it appears cybercriminals have targeted Shaq’s preferred motor-modder.…
Oct 24, 2025
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act The UK's Home Secretary should use her powers to push the tech industry to deploy stronger technical measures against the surge in phone thefts, according to a House of Commons committee.…
Redmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln updated Microsoft fixed a security hole in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed attackers to trick the AI assistant into stealing sensitive tenant data – like emails – via indirect prompt injection attacks.…
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by Richard Speed / 9d
You didn't have plans, did you? Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to patch a critical vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).…
by SA Mathieson / 9d
Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has relaunched his digital ID scheme as something that will make people's lives easier, less than four weeks after announcing it as a measure to tackle illegal working.…
Oct 23, 2025
Runways? Where we're going, we don't need runways US defense technology biz Shield AI claims it can build a jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) autonomous fighter drone that doesn't need a runway to operate.…
Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East Iran's favorite muddy-footed cyberespionage crew is at it again, this time breaching more than 100 government entities across the Middle East and North Africa, according to researchers at Group-IB.…
The 0-days have left the building Federal prosecutors have charged a former general manager of US government defense contractor L3Harris's cyber arm Trenchant with selling secrets to an unidentified Russian buyer for $1.3 million.…
What?! No complimentary credit monitoring? The Canadian outpost of retailer Toys R Us on Thursday notified customers that attackers accessed a database, stole some of their personal information, then posted the data online.…
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts America's once-ambitious cyber defences are starting to rust, according to the latest annual report from the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which warns that policy momentum has slowed and even slipped backwards thanks to Trump-era workforce and budget cuts.…
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by Carly Page / 10d
Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers Google has taken down thousands of YouTube videos that were quietly spreading password-stealing malware disguised as cracked software and game cheats.…
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