JLR: Payroll data stolen in cybercrime that shook UK economy Automaker admits raid that crippled its factories in August led to the theft of sensitive info Cyber-crime15 Dec 2025 | 28
Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches Both admit attackers were already exploiting the bugs, with scant detail and hints of spyware-grade abuse Patches15 Dec 2025 | 31
Honeypots can help defenders, or damn them if implemented badly Infosec In Brief PLUS: Crims could burn your AI budgets thanks to weak defaults; CISA's top 25 vulns for 2025; And more Security14 Dec 2025 | 3
Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crews Cyber-crime12 Dec 2025 | 14
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale' Legal12 Dec 2025 | 24
Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 9
LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 35
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert Security11 Dec 2025 | 12
Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack Exclusive Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 3
700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised Cyber-crime10 Dec 2025 | 14
US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility Cyber-crime10 Dec 2025 | 23
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service' Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims Cyber-crime08 Dec 2025 | 5
Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul Cyber-crime08 Dec 2025 | 23
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool Infosec in Brief PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! Security08 Dec 2025 | 7
Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? Cyber-crime05 Dec 2025 | 8
Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems Cyber-crime05 Dec 2025 | 3
Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time Cyber-crime05 Dec 2025 | 4
PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years 'Dozens' of US orgs infected Cyber-crime04 Dec 2025 | 3
Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks Cyber-crime04 Dec 2025 | 18
Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks Cyber-crime04 Dec 2025 | 21
Here’s your worst nightmare: E-tailer can only resume partial sales 45 days after ransomware attack Japan’s Askul still can’t run all its sites, but at least the fax line held up OK Security03 Dec 2025 | 9
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 1
Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin Operation Olympia pulls Swiss servers offline and scoops up 12TB of data in latest crime infrastructure crackdown Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 8
Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 6
FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 13
Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store Cyber-crime01 Dec 2025 | 41
Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree Plus: Aussie Wi-Fi phisher and Brit dark web dealer nailed Cyber-crime01 Dec 2025 | 6
Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase Only a select few continue into later life, mainly for the love of the game Cyber-crime01 Dec 2025 | 9
South Korea's answer to Amazon admits breach exposed 33.7M customers Coupang confirms internationally routed intrusion compromised more than half of the country's population Cyber-crime01 Dec 2025 |
French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach Zut alors! Cybercrooks scored names, numbers, and license IDs Cyber-crime01 Dec 2025 | 2
Swiss government says give M365, and all SaaS, a miss as it lacks end-to-end encryption Infosec In Brief PLUS: Exercise app tells spies to stop mapping; GitLab scan reveals 17,000 secrets; Leak exposes Iran’s Charming Kitten; And more! Security01 Dec 2025 | 28
PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm Devops28 Nov 2025 | 8
Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later Talk about buyer’s remorse Cyber-crime28 Nov 2025 | 6
OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breach AI + ML27 Nov 2025 | 4
FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio Cyber-crime27 Nov 2025 | 36
Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026 Cyber-crime27 Nov 2025 | 5
Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover Cyber-crime27 Nov 2025 | 23
Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had data stolen Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers... Cyber-crime26 Nov 2025 | 7
Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks Cyber-crime26 Nov 2025 | 4
CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product Cyber-crime26 Nov 2025 | 15
London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access Cyber-crime26 Nov 2025 | 21
Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220 'Ah, I see you're ready to escalate. Let's make digital destruction simple and effective.' Security25 Nov 2025 | 7
Corporate predators get more than they bargain for when their prey runs SonicWall firewalls Acquirers inherit more than staff and systems Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 | 1
Get ready for 2026, the year of AI-aided ransomware State-backed crews are already poking at autonomous tools, Trend Micro warns Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 | 4
Clop's Oracle EBS rampage reaches Dartmouth College Uni notifies 1,400-plus Maine residents as zero-day fallout continues Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 |
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts Attackers sidestep encryption with spoofed apps and zero-click exploits to compromise 'high-value' mobile users Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 | 34
Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials Poisoned PNGs contain malicious code Security24 Nov 2025 | 4
Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks SitusAMC rules out ransomware, but accounting records for major institutions potentially affected Cyber-crime24 Nov 2025 | 2
Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days Cyber-crime24 Nov 2025 | 5
ShinyHunters 'does not like Salesforce at all,' claims the crew accessed Gainsight 3 months ago EXCLUSIVE Shiny talks to The Reg Cyber-crime21 Nov 2025 | 6
Four charged over alleged plot to smuggle Nvidia AI chips into China Prosecutors say front companies, falsified paperwork, and overseas drop points used to dodge US export rules Cyber-crime21 Nov 2025 | 6
Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy Cyber-crime21 Nov 2025 | 15
Salesforce-linked data breach claims 200+ victims, has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it They keep coming back for more Cyber-crime20 Nov 2025 |
Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts Cyber-crime20 Nov 2025 | 30
Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say watchdogs Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework Cyber-crime20 Nov 2025 | 2
US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider ‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort Cyber-crime20 Nov 2025 | 6
Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity Cyber-crime19 Nov 2025 | 37
FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’ Cyber-crime18 Nov 2025 | 19
Google Chrome bug exploited as a 0-day – patch now or risk full system compromise Seventh Chrome 0-day this year Cyber-crime18 Nov 2025 | 11
'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Cyber-crime17 Nov 2025 | 15