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Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving

2 hours 52 min ago
Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’

Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.…

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Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded

Thu, 13/11/2025 - 23:12
Anthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign

Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed snoops "succeeded in a small number of cases," according to a Thursday report from the AI company.…

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Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand

Thu, 13/11/2025 - 20:02
Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research

Ransomware is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by extortionists last week, payment services provider Checkout.com donated the demanded amount to fund cybercrime research.…

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Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

Thu, 13/11/2025 - 15:45
The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump

Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…

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Extra, extra, read all about it: Washington Post clobbered in Clop caper

Thu, 13/11/2025 - 13:45
Nearly 10,000 staff and contractors warned after attackers raided newspaper's Oracle EBS setup

The Washington Post has confirmed that nearly 10,000 employees and contractors had sensitive personal data stolen in the Clop-linked Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks.…

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Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers

Thu, 13/11/2025 - 12:01
Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure

International cops have pulled apart the Rhadamanthys infostealer operation, seizing 1,025 servers tied to the malware in coordinated raids between November 10-13.…

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NHS supplier ends probe into ransomware attack that contributed to patient death

Thu, 13/11/2025 - 11:13
Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified

Synnovis has finally wrapped up its investigation into the 2024 ransomware attack that crippled pathology services across London, ending an 18-month effort to untangle what the NHS supplier describes as one of the most complex data reconstruction jobs it has ever faced.…

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Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 21:39
600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.…

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Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 17:16
Vendors (still) keep mum

An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.…

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Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 11:21
Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation

The Metropolitan Police's seven-year investigation into a record-setting fraudster has ended after she was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.…

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UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 10:54
Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors

UK government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill to Parliament today, marking a significant overhaul of local cybersecurity legislation to sharpen the security posture of the most critical sectors.…

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Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 10:15
Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption

Britain's aviation watchdog has warned it's only a matter of time before organized drone attacks bring UK airports to a standstill.…

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China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 04:47
A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’

China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has alleged a nation-state entity, probably the USA, was behind a 2020 attack on a bitcoin mining operation and by doing so has gone into bat for entities that Beijing usually blasts.…

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Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

Wed, 12/11/2025 - 01:17
‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks

The head of Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has warned that authoritarian regimes “are growing more willing to disrupt or destroy critical infrastructure”, using cyber-sabotage.…

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North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon

Tue, 11/11/2025 - 16:26
KONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones

North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's "Find Hub" service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets.…

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EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'

Tue, 11/11/2025 - 14:30
Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations

Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.…

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OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list

Tue, 11/11/2025 - 13:26
Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) just published its top 10 categories of application risks for 2025, its first list since 2021. It found that while broken access control remains the top issue, security misconfiguration is a strong second, and software supply chain issues are still prominent.…

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Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic admits data stolen on 10k current and former staff

Tue, 11/11/2025 - 12:20
Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech.

Digital engineering outfit GlobalLogic says personal data from more than 10,000 current and former employees was exposed in the wave of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks attributed to the Clop ransomware gang. The Hitachi-owned biz joins a growing roster of high-profile victims that also now includes The Washington Post and Allianz UK.…

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UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

Tue, 11/11/2025 - 11:55
Norwegian testers claim maker has remote access, while UK importer says supplier complies with the law

UK governmental is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to understand and "mitigate" any risk that China-made imported electric buses could be remotely accessed and potentially disabled.…

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Cyber insurers paid out over twice as much for UK ransomware attacks last year

Tue, 11/11/2025 - 11:04
Massive increase in policy claims… and data doesn’t even cover the major attacks of 2025

The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to the latest figures from the industry's trade association.…

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