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Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison

The Register - 1 hour 55 min ago
'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask'

A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.…

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Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill

The Register - 7 hours 9 min ago
Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say

Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…

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NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks

The Register - 10 hours 50 min ago
Crimefighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continue

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved with the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…

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Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support

The Register - 11 hours 38 min ago
Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty

Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.…

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Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords

The Register - 14 hours 24 min ago
A simple interface and new roles-based capabilities make this venerable password manager an attractive proposition

Sponsored feature  Passwords are necessary for businesses, but look away for a minute and they quickly get out of control. If your users do things right and use a different password for each application, you'll easily reach hundreds of them with just a few dozen people. It's time to take control of them before they become toxic.…

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At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

The Register - 14 hours 56 min ago
Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation

Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.…

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How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 23:31
No, really, those are the magic words

A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.…

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US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 19:06
Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…

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AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 18:17
Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly

AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…

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The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 17:19
Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline

Partner content  Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025.…

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Reframing investments in security as investments in the business

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 16:00
A little skill in business communication can help get the board on board

Partner content  Cybersecurity executives and their teams are under constant pressure and scrutiny. As the barrier to entry for attackers gets lower, organizations need to improve their defenses. As businesses get leaner, so do their security teams. There are increasingly high expectations and increasingly tougher challenges to meet them across people, processes, and platforms.…

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Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 12:26
Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked

Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.…

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Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 10:22
Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings

Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".…

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Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 09:30
Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers

Privacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.…

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Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 07:33
Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire

An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.…

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Microsoft enjoys first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with no active exploits

The Register - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 00:01
Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodness

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.…

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Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

The Register - Tue, 08/07/2025 - 20:07
These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says

A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites, and backdoors victims' web browsers, according to Koi Security researchers.…

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The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience

The Register - Tue, 08/07/2025 - 16:00
Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline

Partner content  Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025.…

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SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious

The Register - Tue, 08/07/2025 - 14:27
Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposure

Linux veteran SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty.…

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Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff

The Register - Tue, 08/07/2025 - 12:47
Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled

A man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy.…

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