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Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

Fri, 30/05/2025 - 01:15
Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams

The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…

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Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 22:46
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to dodge the update.…

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Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 20:51
House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley

Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.…

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8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 17:23
No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect

Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.…

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Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 13:23
Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable.…

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European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 10:26
Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up

The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle, from startup through to maturity.…

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Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 01:30
Knickers outlet knackered

Underwear retailer Victoria's Secret’s website has been down for three days, with the company blaming an unspecified security problem.…

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Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity

Thu, 29/05/2025 - 01:19
The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge

Partner content  From the use of ATMs to online banking, the financial services sector has always been at the forefront of technology. Now, it's leading the charge in AI. In their third annual survey of financial institutions the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority found 75% of companies already using AI with another 10% planning to do so over the next three years.…

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Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

Wed, 28/05/2025 - 19:35
Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…

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Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

Wed, 28/05/2025 - 13:24
The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath

A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a "strict-regime" (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked sensitive data to Ukraine.…

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The cost of compromise: Why password attacks are still winning in 2025

Wed, 28/05/2025 - 11:00
Poor password management is responsible for thousands of data breaches, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Sponsored feature  The IT business likes to reinvent things as quickly as possible. Except passwords, that is. We've been using them since Roman times, only now they're digital. They're the fungal skin disease of tech; irritating and hard to get rid of.…

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DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware

Wed, 28/05/2025 - 07:45
SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack

DragonForce ransomware infected a managed service provider, and its customers, after attackers exploited security flaws in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp.…

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ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it

Wed, 28/05/2025 - 03:16
Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements

Computex  Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to Shawn Chang, Head of Go-To-Market for the outfit’s Commercial Business Unit.…

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Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

Wed, 28/05/2025 - 00:52
Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead

A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive info, according to Mandiant.…

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New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack

Tue, 27/05/2025 - 18:50
Dutch intel services, Microsoft go big-game hunting

A previously unknown Kremlin-linked group has conducted cyber-espionage operations against Dutch police, NATO member states, Western tech companies, and other organizations of interest to the Russian government since at least April 2024, according to Dutch intelligence services and Microsoft.…

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Adidas confirms criminals stole data from customer service provider

Tue, 27/05/2025 - 15:19
Hackers take personal data bytes from the brand with three stripes

Adidas is warning customers some of their data was stolen after an "unauthorized" person lifted it from a "third-party customer service provider."…

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Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down

Tue, 27/05/2025 - 13:28
Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool

Software biz MathWorks is cleaning up a ransomware attack more than a week after it took down MATLAB, its flagship product used by more than five million people worldwide.…

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TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed

Mon, 26/05/2025 - 05:28
PLUS: Interpol kills more malware; GoDaddy settles in awful infosec case; Giant stolen creds DB exposed

Infosec In Brief  Secrets of the Trump administration may have been exposed after a successful attack on messaging service TeleMessage, which has been used by some officials.…

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China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme

Mon, 26/05/2025 - 03:27
PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; MediaTek goes to 2nm

Asia In Brief  China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity scheme that will mean they can use one logon across multiple online services.…

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Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

Sat, 24/05/2025 - 18:47
Michael Daniel also thinks Uncle Sam should increase help to orgs hit by ransomware

INTERVIEW  Uncle Sam's cybersecurity apparatus can't only focus on China and other nation-state actors, but also has to fight the much bigger damage from plain old cybercrime, says former White House advisor Michael Daniel. And the Trump administration's steep cuts to federal government staff are making that a lot harder.…

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