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AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp

The Register - Mon, 25/08/2025 - 01:57
PLUS: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage

Infosec in brief  PLUS…

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Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it

The Register - Sun, 24/08/2025 - 09:28
For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it

feature  Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…

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Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown

The Register - Fri, 22/08/2025 - 22:07
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers

Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations.…

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Kidney dialysis giant DaVita tells 2.4M people they were snared in ransomware data theft nightmare

The Register - Fri, 22/08/2025 - 20:05
Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gang

Ransomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita's labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people's personal and health-related information.…

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Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach

The Register - Fri, 22/08/2025 - 16:54
The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software

Exclusive  A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.…

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Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware

The Register - Fri, 22/08/2025 - 16:32
ClickFix tricks

Microsoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.…

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