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Infosec in brief  Still smarting over that grocery disruption caused by a ransomware attack on supply chain SaaS vendor Blue Yonder? Well, now you have someone to point a finger at: the Termite ransomware gang.…

'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg

Feature  Chinese tech company employees and government workers are siphoning off user data and selling it online - and even high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials and FBI-wanted hackers' sensitive information is being peddled by the Middle Kingdom's thriving illegal data ecosystem.…

Microsoft's OS sure loves throwing your creds at remote systems

Acros Security claims to have found an unpatched bug in Microsoft Windows 7 and onward that can be exploited to steal users' OS account credentials.…

Video slinger looks to Supremes for salvation, though anything could happen under Trump

A US federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the law that prevents popular apps that collect data on Americans from being controlled by a foreign adversary.…

Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns

The head of America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to force telecoms operators to tighten network security in the wake of the Salt Typhoon revelations, and to submit an annual report detailing measures taken.…

Threatened with life in prison, Kyiv charity worker gives middle finger to state spies

A Russian programmer defied the Federal Security Service (FSB) by publicizing the fact his phone was infected with spyware after being confiscated by authorities.…

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Sponsored Post  According to the 2024 IBM Cost of the Data Breach Report 40 percent of data breaches identified between March 2023 and February 2024 involved data stored across multiple environments, including the cloud.…

Still unpatched 100+ days later, watchTowr says

A zero-day arbitrary file read vulnerability in Mitel MiCollab can be chained with a now-patched critical bug in the same platform to give attackers access to sensitive files on vulnerable instances. …

Redmond threat intel maven talks explains this persistent pain to The Reg

A Chinese government-linked group that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0227 yesterday started targeting critical infrastructures organisations and US government agencies, according to Redmond's threat intel team.…

Damage likely limited to those running bots with private key access

Malware-poisoned versions of the widely used JavaScript library @solana/web3.js were distributed via the npm package registry, according to an advisory issued Wednesday by project maintainer Steven Luscher.…

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Children's hospital and cardiac unit say criminals broke in via shared 'digital gateway service'

Both National Health Service trusts that oversee the various hospitals hit by separate cyberattacks last week have confirmed they're still in the process of restoring systems.…

Sensitive data allegedly stolen from US subsidiary following Black Basta post

BT Group confirmed it is dealing with an attempted attack on one of its legacy business units after the Black Basta ransomware group claimed they broke in.…

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Stoli Group on the rocks in the US

Two US subsidiaries of alcohol giant Stoli Group filed for bankruptcy protection this week over financial difficulties exacerbated by an August ransomware attack.…

Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat

interview  While Chinese-government-backed spies maintained access to US telecommunications providers' networks for months – and in some cases still haven't been booted out – T-Mobile US thwarted successful attacks on its systems "within a single-digit number of days," according to the carrier's security boss Jeff Simon.…

Drugs, botnets, forged docs, and more generated fortune for platform sellers

German authorities say they have again shut down the perhaps unwisely named Crimenetwork platform and arrested a suspected admin.…

Installed the final non-security preview update of 2024? Best not hop onto the Dev Channel

Microsoft has pinned down why some eager Windows Insiders could not persuade the Recall preview to save any snapshots. It's all down to a pesky non-security preview.…

They took the red pill

French and Dutch police have taken down the Matrix chat app, which was designed by criminals for criminals to be a secure encrypted messaging tool.…

'Where we go is who we are' totally isn't a creepy ad slogan at all

The FTC has reached a settlement with two data brokerages over allegations they harvested precise location data that shows when people entered hospitals, places of worship, and even attended protests supporting the late George Floyd.…