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Mar 27, 2026

AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans

Ajax suffers data breach theft

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by Carly Page / 2d

Vulns in Dutch football club's systems didn't just expose data – they let outsiders play with accounts, and even lift stadium bans Dutch football giant AFC Ajax has admitted to a data breach after an attacker gained access to its internal systems, in an incident that looks less like a stray pass and more like the gates left wide open.…

Iran war drives urgent need  to counter underwater attack drones

by Dan Robinson / 2d

US and UK forces seeking tech tender with an April 3 deadline The UK and US are looking for technology to counter the threat posed by underwater drones to ships, harbors and other critical maritime infrastructure, and are asking industry for answers.…

Mar 26, 2026

Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys

API keys exposed on thousands of sites

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by Thomas Claburn / 2d

Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code Computer security boffins have conducted an analysis of 10 million websites and found almost 2,000 API credentials strewn across 10,000 webpages.…

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

by Lindsay Clark / 3d

Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…

Mar 25, 2026

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

Britain trials social media bans

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by Paul Kunert / 3d

300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life The UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses.…

Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

Nationwide CCTV audit ordered

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by Simon Sharwood / 3d

Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation’s CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.…

AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation

by Thomas Claburn / 4d

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability.…

Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud

by Brandon Vigliarolo / 4d

They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company. …

Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

by Jessica Lyons / 4d

Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security RSAC 2026 "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says.…

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

by Jessica Lyons / 4d

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC… rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.…

Mar 24, 2026

Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs

by Simon Sharwood / 4d

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…

EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom

by Thomas Claburn / 5d

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

4 TTPs

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by Jessica Lyons / 5d

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Trivy scanner compromised in attack

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised

4 TTPs

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by Thomas Claburn / 5d

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LiteLLM supply chain attack by TeamPCP

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…

HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed

by Carly Page / 5d

Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.…

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

FCC bans foreign-made consumer routers

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by Dan Robinson / 5d

Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…

Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison

by Carly Page / 5d

Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his