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Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia

The Register - Mon, 29/09/2025 - 02:09
PLUS: Interpol recoups $439M from crims; CISA criticizes Feds security; FIFA World Cup nets dodgy domain deluge

Infosec In Brief  Police in the Netherlands arrested two 17-year-olds last week over claims that Russian intelligence recruited them to spy on the headquarters of European law enforcement agencies.…

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Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline

The Register - Sun, 28/09/2025 - 23:59
PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!

Asia In Brief  Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…

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Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign

The Register - Sat, 27/09/2025 - 12:06
Not to be confused with all the other reports of Chinese intruders on US networks that came to light this week

RedNovember, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberspy group, targeted government and critical private-sector networks around the globe between June 2024 and July 2025, exploiting buggy internet-facing appliances to deploy a Go-based backdoor called Pantegana and other offensive security tools, including Cobalt Strike and SparkRAT.…

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Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up

The Register - Sat, 27/09/2025 - 09:38
Chinese giant maps out datacenters across Europe and beyond, yet US chip curbs cast a long shadow

Analysis  Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions of dollars, a revamped LLM lineup, and plans for AI datacenters in Europe. But it also prompted a flurry of questions over how it will achieve all this in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape, when critical resources are in short supply.…

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Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government

The Register - Fri, 26/09/2025 - 22:00
Act passed in 2015 is due to lapse unless a continuing resolution passes - and that's unlikely

Barring a last-minute deal, the US federal government would shut down on Wednesday, October 1, and the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would lapse at the same time, threatening what many consider a critical plank of US cybersecurity policy.…

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