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Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people

Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they’ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they’re as secure as can be and properly backed up.…

Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims

Nearly 200 people, including minors accused of involvement in murder plots, have been arrested over the last six months as part of Europol's Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM. The operation targets what cops call "violence-as-a-service" - crime crews recruiting kids and teens online to carry out contract killings and other real-world attacks.…

Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance

The UK government has announced enhanced protection for undersea cables using autonomous vessels alongside crewed warships and aircraft, responding to escalating Russian surveillance activities.…

Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement

The UK's data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition technology, despite regular engagement between the organizations.…

Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul

Barts Health NHS Trust has confirmed that patient and staff data was stolen in Clop's mass-exploitation of Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS), and says it is now taking legal action in an effort to stop the gang publishing any of the snatched information.…

Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

Agentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more

Asia In Brief  Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first reusable rocket, only to watch it explode while attempting to land.…

PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more!

Infosec in Brief  The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.…

Wanna know a secret?

Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.…

Proof of life? Or an active social media presence?

Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday. …

Who needs JavaScript?

Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).…

Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says

Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare's technology chief said his company took down its own network, forcing a widespread outage early Friday, to patch React2Shell.…

Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems

Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan's internal files.…

State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time

Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React "React2Shell" vulnerability within hours of disclosure, turning a theoretical CVSS-10 hole into a live-fire incident almost immediately.…

Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance

The UK government has kicked off plans to ramp up police use of facial recognition, undeterred by a mounting civil liberties backlash and fresh warnings that any expansion risks turning public spaces into biometric dragnets.…

You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks

Opinion  Liars, cranks, and con artists have always been with us. It's just that nowadays their reach has gone from the local pub to the globe.…

Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency

Anthropic could have scored an easy $4.6 million by using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts.…

'Dozens' of US orgs infected

Chinese cyberspies maintained long-term access to critical networks – sometimes for years – and used this access to infect computers with malware and steal data, according to Thursday warnings from government agencies and private security firms.…

He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's not the only one using insecure messaging, and everyone needs better training.…

And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks

Vetting staff who handle sensitive government systems is wise, and so is cutting off their access the moment they're fired. Prosecutors say a federal contractor learned this the hard way when twin brothers previously convicted of hacking-related offenses allegedly used lingering access to delete nearly 100 government databases, including systems tied to Homeland Security and other agencies, within minutes of being terminated.…