Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data IntelBroker claims the breach impacts Microsoft, SAP, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, and more Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 |
Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 | 4
China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 13
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 8
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite? Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2024 | 30
US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 10
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 52
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health Updated Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse Cyber-crime10 Oct 2024 | 3
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 36
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market' Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 15
Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS 31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 22
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 22
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020 Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 9
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 64
Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned Pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for Russian state broadcasting shutdown Security08 Oct 2024 | 79
Feds reach for sliver of crypto-cash nicked by North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group A couple million will do for a start … but Kim's crews are suspected of stealing much more Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 2
American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app Updated It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2024 | 12
Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic Security07 Oct 2024 | 6
About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys
WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too
Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen? Who, Me? The only thing worse than a Reply All storm is a Send All storm
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6 Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals
Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks Updated Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 13
Euro cops arrest 4 including suspected LockBit dev chilling on holiday And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 | 15
Evil Corp's deep ties with Russia and NATO member attacks exposed Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services Cyber-crime01 Oct 2024 | 9
NCA unmasks man it suspects is both 'Evil Corp kingpin' and LockBit affiliate Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 |
Australian e-tailer digiDirect customers' info allegedly stolen and dumped online Full names, contact details, and company info – all the fixings for a phishing holiday Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2024 |
Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled Cybersecurity Month30 Sep 2024 | 19
If you're holding important data, Iran is probably trying spearphish it It's election year for more than 50 countries and the Islamic Republic threatens a bunch of them Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 6
Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 5
Feds charge 3 Iranians with 'hack-and-leak' of Trump 2024 campaign Snoops allegedly camped out in inboxes well into September Cyber-crime27 Sep 2024 | 12
Victims lose $70K to one single wallet-draining app on Google's Play Store Attackers got 10K people to download 'trusted' web3 brand cheat before Mountain View intervened Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 22
Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations Updated See it, say it… not sorted just yet as network access remains offline Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 62
RansomHub genius tries to put the squeeze on Delaware Libraries Extorting underfunded public services for $1M isn't a good look Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 5
China claims Taiwan, not civilians, behind web vandalism Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 2
Russia's digital warfare on Ukraine shows no signs of slowing: Malware hits surge Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure Cyber-crime24 Sep 2024 | 9
How to spot a North Korean agent before they get comfy inside payroll Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff Cyber-crime24 Sep 2024 | 19
'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting Still no ‘R’ word, but smells like ransomware from here Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 6
Necro malware continues to haunt side-loaders of dodgy Android mods Updated 11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 2
US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 26
Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 10
Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 7
Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 50
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 25
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 22
Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 1
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT Exclusive Getting sloppy, Xi CSO18 Sep 2024 | 32
Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 18
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared Feature 'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 29
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 9
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 2
Chinese national accused by Feds of spear-phishing for NASA, military source code May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 6
Germany’s CDU still struggling to restore data months after June cyberattack Putting a spanner in work for plans of opposition party to launch a comeback during next year's elections Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 1
Prison just got rougher as band of heinously violent cybercrims sentenced to lengthy stints Orchestrators of abductions, torture, crypto thefts, and more get their comeuppance Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 20
Cambodian senator sanctioned by US over alleged forced labor cyber-scam camps Do not go on holiday to the O Smach Resort Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 8
Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist' Public Sector13 Sep 2024 | 41
Feds pull plug on domains linked to import of Chinese gun conversion devices Illegal goods allegedly shipped to the US labeled as toys or jewels Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 30
Fortinet admits miscreant got hold of customer data in the cloud That would explain this 440GB leak, then Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 5
'Hadooken' Linux malware targets Oracle WebLogic servers Nastyware seeks creds, mines crypto, and plants ransomware that isnt deployed - for now? Security13 Sep 2024 | 3
I stole 20 GB of data from Capgemini – and now I'm leaking it, says cybercrook Updated Allegedly pilfered database has source code, private keys, staff info, T-Mobile VM logs, more Cyber-crime12 Sep 2024 | 20
Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline NCA confirms arrest of 17-year-old 'on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences' – now bailed Cyber-crime12 Sep 2024 | 66
Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected No class: Black Suit ransomware gang boasts of 200GB haul from one raid Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 45
Major sales and ops overhaul leads to much more activity ... for Meow ransomware gang You hate to see it Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 1
Hunters International cyber-gang extorts Chinese mega-bank's London HQ Allegedly swiped more than 5.2M files and threatens to publish the lot Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 7
So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work A really big oh sh*t moment, for sure Cyber-crime11 Sep 2024 | 69
Crypto scams rake in $5.6B a year for cyberscum lowlifes, FBI says Elderly people report the greatest losses Cyber-crime10 Sep 2024 | 7
Avis alerts nearly 300K car renters that crooks stole their info Updated 'Insider wrongdoing' to blame for security breach Cyber-crime09 Sep 2024 | 13
1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in Criminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details Cyber-crime09 Sep 2024 | 17
Despite cyberattacks, water security standards remain a pipe dream Feature White House floats round two of regulations Cyber-crime07 Sep 2024 | 19
Uncle Sam charges Russian GRU cyber-spies behind 'WhisperGate intrusions' Feds post $10M bounty for each of the six's whereabouts Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 7
The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues Network admins take a ride on the Fright Bus Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 48
North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns Feds warn of 'highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns' Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 8
Planned Parenthood confirms cyber-attack as RansomHub threatens to leak data 93GB of info feared pilfered in Montana by heartless crooks Cyber-crime04 Sep 2024 | 20
Cicada ransomware may be a BlackCat/ALPHV rebrand and upgrade Researchers find many similarities, and nasty new customizations such as embedded compromised user credentials Research04 Sep 2024 |
Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes Unclear if this is a sign controversial service is cleaning up its act everywhere Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 10
UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz Updated Crew bragged they could help crooks raid victims' bank accounts Cyber-crime03 Sep 2024 | 14
Spamouflage trolls pretend to be American patriots on X, TikTok ahead of US presidential election No, Abbey is not really a "pure patriotic girl" Cyber-crime03 Sep 2024 | 36
Transport for London confirms cyberattack, assures us all is well Government body claims there is no evidence of customer data being compromised Cyber-crime03 Sep 2024 | 30
RansomHub hits 210 victims in just 6 months The ransomware gang recruits high-profile affiliates from LockBit and ALPHV Cyber-crime30 Aug 2024 |
US indicts duo over alleged Swatting spree that targeted elected officials Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 20
What a coincidence. Spyware makers, Russia's Cozy Bear seem to share same exploits Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link Security29 Aug 2024 | 3
Feds claim sinister sysadmin locked up thousands of Windows workstations, demanded ransom Sordid search history 'evidence' in case that could see him spend 35 years for extortion and wire fraud Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 52
Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 4
Iran's Pioneer Kitten hits US networks via buggy Check Point, Palo Alto gear The government-backed crew also enjoys ransomware as a side hustle Cyber-crime28 Aug 2024 | 5
Dick's Sporting Goods discloses cyberattack Authorities probing unwanted intrusion; hard questions ahead Cyber-crime28 Aug 2024 | 11
Volt Typhoon suspected of exploiting Versa SD-WAN bug since June updated The same Beijing-backed cyber spy crew the feds say burrowed into US critical infrastructure Cyber-crime27 Aug 2024 | 3
AMD internal data reportedly offered for sale Second sensitive info theft claimed by the same crims since June Cyber-crime26 Aug 2024 | 1
Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product CxO26 Aug 2024 | 9
Ransomware batters critical industries, but takedowns hint at relief Whether attack slowdown continues downward trend is the million dollar question that security researchers can't answer Cyber-crime22 Aug 2024 | 1
Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside – and a bigger bill than ever Cyber-crime21 Aug 2024 | 72
OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo 12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown Cyber-crime19 Aug 2024 | 5
National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher Cyber-crime19 Aug 2024 | 6
After nearly 3B personal records leak online, Florida data broker confirms it was ransacked by cyber-thieves Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there Cyber-crime16 Aug 2024 | 43
Unicoin hints at potential data meddling after G-Suite compromise Attacker locked out all staff for four days Cyber-crime16 Aug 2024 | 9
Russian man who sold logins to nearly 3,000 accounts gets 40 months in jail He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 | 5
Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene Anydesk is its access tool of choice Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 | 4
Russian cyber snoops linked to massive credential-stealing campaign Citizen Lab also spots a COLDWASTREL swimming in the Rivers of Phish Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 |
Enzo Biochem ordered to cough up $4.5 million over lousy security that led to ransomware disaster Three state attorneys general probed the company and found plenty to chastise Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 | 3
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 33
Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks Plus many more newbies waiting in the wings Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 |
US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’ Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 7