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HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed
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.…
New routers? Made abroad? Yeah, that's going to be a no from Uncle Sam
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
A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.…
Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss
RSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.…
Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers
RSA 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.…
Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later
Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …
Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web
Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…
Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says
Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor - then came the data leak
Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.…
RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere
kettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she's expecting agentic AI to be on everyone's lips - at least those who aren't busy gossiping about the lack of presence from any representatives of the US federal government.…
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.…
The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope
NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years.…
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…
UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias
A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.…
Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks
The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.…
Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns
The UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for how Britain handles major cyber crises.…
Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor
Opinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID checks.…
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?
On Call Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug
Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…