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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.…

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".…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

The clipboard warriors are coming. Time to check on your password management

Sponsored feature  It's 2025, and credential theft is a thing of the past.…

Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal'

While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies — and even Chipotle Mexican Grill — in tjeor web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains that security researchers say look a lot like phishing websites used by the criminal crews.…

NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence

Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched.…

Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned

A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers.…

Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more

Infosec In Brief  A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 user accounts. …

SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors

Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack.…

¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds

Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.…

Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along

A mysterious piece of "under development" code is playing havoc with the Windows Firewall after the latest preview update for Windows 11 24H2.…

The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it

Young Consulting's cybersecurity woes continue after the number of affected individuals from last year's suspected ransomware raid passed the 1 million mark.…

'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then?

Meta has come out swinging following the European Commission's decision that its pay-or-consent model falls foul of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).…

Don't let their kind words sway you – leaders are still up to no good

Ransomware gang Hunters International has shut up shop and offered decryption keys to all victims as a parting favor.…