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Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period

Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it won't stop attacks outright.…

50,000 firewall devices still exposed

Nearly 50,000 Cisco ASA/FTD instances vulnerable to two bugs that are actively being exploited by "advanced" attackers remain exposed to the internet, according to Shadowserver data.…

Sharing links take seconds to create, but can last for years

Partner Content  Seamless collaboration through cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 has radically reshaped the modern workplace. In the span of an hour, you could go from uploading budget proposals to a project channel to live editing a joint presentation with a business partner, all while making lunch plans over Teams. From remote work to video calls, it’s never been easier to connect people, ideas, and information.…

Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year

The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by the London's Metropolitan Police in a suburb in the south of the city.…

Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas

London's Metropolitan Police has secured a "landmark conviction" following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.…

Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran

Opinion  There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…

The federal government's not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for -  the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…

MCP plus open source plus typosquatting equals trouble

A fake npm package posing as Postmark's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line of code that secretly copied outgoing messages to an attacker-controlled address.…

No personal info gulped as yet, but don't call for help

Japan's largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.…

Baroness Manningham-Buller cites Kremlin sabotage, cyberattacks, and assassinations as signs of an undeclared conflict

The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.…

Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation

The UK government should consider the possibility of leaving social media platform X, a high-profile minister has suggested.…

Attackers make contact but negotiations fall on deaf ears

Luxury London-based retailer Harrods is facing its second cybersecurity scandal in 2025, confirming criminals not only stole 430,000 customers' data in a fresh attack but have even made contact.…

Hundreds of thousands of workers in financial despair supported with landmark loan

The UK government is stepping in with financial support for Jaguar Land Rover, providing it with a hefty loan as it continues to battle the fallout from a cyberattack.…

Socio political backdrop is not what it once was....

Opinion  UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer directly addressed his new policy of mandatory digital ID in the country for 23 seconds in its effective launch speech.…

Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude?

Feature  The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly dying a few weeks later. 167 years on, the undersea cables connecting the UK to the outside world process £220 billion in daily financial transactions. Now, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has told the government that it has to do a better job of protecting them.…

We’re blind to malicious AI until it hits. We can still open our eyes to stopping it

Opinion  Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train an LLM to hide destructive behavior from its users, and how to find it before it triggered. The answers were unambiguously asymmetric — the first is easy, the second very difficult. Not what anyone wanted to hear.…

Alleges bias and security problems

US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…

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.…

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.…

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.…