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Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to carry out other cybercrimes and fraud.…

Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby

Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code on the operating system with root-level privileges. …

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'

The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…

It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing

Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.…

'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'

Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production. …

Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out

International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.…

Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark

Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail

Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist.…

Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory

Exclusive  Aviation insiders say Serbia's national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling.…

Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July

UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.…

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…