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Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap

The Register - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 15:16
Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop

Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…

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Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries

The Register - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 14:21
Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…

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Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz

The Register - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 11:19
US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce

US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…

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UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details

The Register - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 10:41
Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members

UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…

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It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

The Register - Thu, 09/10/2025 - 21:45
Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset

Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

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SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke

The Register - Thu, 09/10/2025 - 14:30
Affects users regardless of when their backups were created

SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted.…

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