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Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks
Exclusive When fraudsters go after people's paychecks, "every employee on earth becomes a target," according to Binary Defense security sleuth John Dwyer.…
Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution
Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE).…
Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach
Legacy IT issues are hampering key technical measures designed to prevent highly sensitive data leaks, UK government officials say.…
Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes
What better way to say I love you than with an update? Attackers exploited a whopping six Microsoft bugs as zero-days prior to Redmond releasing software fixes on February's Patch Tuesday.…
AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links
AI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically.…
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks
Singapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.…
Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach
Nearly 17,000 Volvo employees had their personal data exposed after cybercriminals breached Conduent, an outsourcing giant that handles workforce benefits and back-office services.…
British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain
British soldiers are to get an array of AI-ready kit that should mean they don't have to wait to see the "whites of their eyes" before pulling the trigger.…
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how
Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.…
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
It's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.…
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.…
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere
Taiwan's vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent of the country's semiconductor production to the US, calling the Trump administration's goal "impossible."…
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.…
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay
European techies looking for the biggest payday are far better off in Switzerland than anywhere else, with average salaries eclipsing all other countries on the continent.…
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend
Brussels is digging into a cyber break-in that targeted the European Commission's mobile device management systems, potentially giving intruders a peek inside the official phones carried by EU staff.…
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents
Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards – or at least their digital equivalent.…
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks
Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.…
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm
A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…
DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records
Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…