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Uncle Sam indicts alleged ransomware kingpin tied to $18B in damages

The Register - Wed, 10/09/2025 - 12:30
Prosecutors claim Ukrainian ran LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ops – $11M bounty on his head

A Ukrainian national faces serious federal charges and an $11 million bounty after allegedly orchestrating ransomware operations that caused an estimated $18 billion in damages across hundreds of organizations worldwide.…

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Flu jab email mishap exposes hundreds of students' personal data

The Register - Wed, 10/09/2025 - 11:13
One parent expressed concern for their child's safety

A clumsy data breach has affected hundreds of children at a Birmingham secondary school.…

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Cybercrooks ripped the wheels off at Jaguar Land Rover. Here's how not to get taken for a ride

The Register - Wed, 10/09/2025 - 09:00
Are you sure you know who has access to your systems?

Feature  Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is the latest UK household name to fall victim to a major cyberattack. IT systems across multiple sites have been offline for over a week after what the company described as a "severe disruption."…

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This Patch Tuesday, SAP is the worst offender and Microsoft users can kinda chill

The Register - Wed, 10/09/2025 - 04:31
ERP giant patches flaw that allows total takeover of NetWeaver, Microsoft has nothing under attack for once

September’s Patch Tuesday won’t require Microsoft users to rapidly repair rancid software, but SAP users need to move fast to address extremely dangerous bugs.…

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More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change

The Register - Tue, 09/09/2025 - 22:41
Miscreants cost victims time rather than money

During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz researchers. But crypto-craving crims did little more than annoy defenders.…

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New cybersecurity rules land for Defense Department contractors

The Register - Tue, 09/09/2025 - 21:06
Now if only someone would remember to apply those rules inside the DoD

It's about to get a lot harder for private companies that are lax on cybersecurity to get a contract with the Pentagon, as the Defense Department has finalized a rule requiring contractor compliance with its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.…

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Defense Dept didn't protect social media accounts, left stream keys out in public

The Register - Tue, 09/09/2025 - 18:53
'The practice… has since been fixed,' Pentagon official tells The Reg

The US Department of Defense, up until this week, routinely left its social media accounts wide open to hijackers via stream keys - unique, confidential identifiers generated by streaming platforms for broadcasting content. If exposed, these keys can allow attackers to output anything they want from someone else's channel.…

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No gains, just pains as 1.6M fitness phone call recordings exposed online

The Register - Tue, 09/09/2025 - 18:00
HelloGym's data security clearly skipped leg day

Exclusive  Sensitive info from hundreds of thousands of gym customers and staff – including names, financial details, and potentially biometric data in the form of audio recordings – was left sitting in an unencrypted, non-password protected database, according to a security researcher who shut it down.…

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