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Covid-style financial support? Nothing to confirm yet, say MPs

The chair of the UK's business and trade committee says the situation at Jaguar Land Rover is likely to get "harder and harder over the next week or two," but stopped short of confirming that the government might intervene with financial support.…

AI attacks on the rise

A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year, either by the use of prompt injection attacks or faking out their systems using phony audio or video generated by AI.…

Security vendor's no good, very bad week year

SonicWall on Monday released a firmware update that the security vendor says will remove rootkit malware deployed in recent attacks targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 appliances.…

Or maybe 3 strikes, you're out?

SolarWinds on Tuesday released a hotfix - again - for a critical, 9.8-severity flaw in its Web Help Desk IT ticketing software that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to run commands on a host machine. …

Rapid7 warns flaw could let any app peek at your SMS, but smartphone vendor won't pick up

Security researchers report that OnePlus smartphone users remain vulnerable to a critical bug that allows any application to read SMS and MMS data — a flaw that has persisted since late 2021.…

Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers

The US Secret Service has dismantled a network of SIM farms in and around New York City it claims was behind multiple incidents targeting senior government officials and had enough power to disrupt entire cellular networks.…