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Redmond threat intel maven talks explains this persistent pain to The Reg

A Chinese government-linked group that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0227 yesterday started targeting critical infrastructures organisations and US government agencies, according to Redmond's threat intel team.…

Damage likely limited to those running bots with private key access

Malware-poisoned versions of the widely used JavaScript library @solana/web3.js were distributed via the npm package registry, according to an advisory issued Wednesday by project maintainer Steven Luscher.…

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Children's hospital and cardiac unit say criminals broke in via shared 'digital gateway service'

Both National Health Service trusts that oversee the various hospitals hit by separate cyberattacks last week have confirmed they're still in the process of restoring systems.…

Sensitive data allegedly stolen from US subsidiary following Black Basta post

BT Group confirmed it is dealing with an attempted attack on one of its legacy business units after the Black Basta ransomware group claimed they broke in.…

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Stoli Group on the rocks in the US

Two US subsidiaries of alcohol giant Stoli Group filed for bankruptcy protection this week over financial difficulties exacerbated by an August ransomware attack.…

Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat

interview  While Chinese-government-backed spies maintained access to US telecommunications providers' networks for months – and in some cases still haven't been booted out – T-Mobile US thwarted successful attacks on its systems "within a single-digit number of days," according to the carrier's security boss Jeff Simon.…

Drugs, botnets, forged docs, and more generated fortune for platform sellers

German authorities say they have again shut down the perhaps unwisely named Crimenetwork platform and arrested a suspected admin.…

Installed the final non-security preview update of 2024? Best not hop onto the Dev Channel

Microsoft has pinned down why some eager Windows Insiders could not persuade the Recall preview to save any snapshots. It's all down to a pesky non-security preview.…

They took the red pill

French and Dutch police have taken down the Matrix chat app, which was designed by criminals for criminals to be a secure encrypted messaging tool.…

'Where we go is who we are' totally isn't a creepy ad slogan at all

The FTC has reached a settlement with two data brokerages over allegations they harvested precise location data that shows when people entered hospitals, places of worship, and even attended protests supporting the late George Floyd.…

20-year-old info disclosure class bug still pervades security software

It's time to rev up those patch engines after SailPoint disclosed a perfect 10/10 severity vulnerability in its identity and access management (IAM) platform IdentityIQ.…

ENGlobal customers include the Pentagon as well as major oil and gas producers

American energy contractor ENGlobal disclosed that access to its IT systems remains limited following a ransomware infection in late November.…

National cyber emergencies increased threefold this year

The number of security threats in the UK that hit the country's National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) maximum severity threshold has tripled compared to the previous 12 months.…

No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind bars

A Russian court has handed a life sentence to the head of the infamous online drugs souk Hydra, and 15 of his co-conspirators will also spend many years behind bars.…

Yet another result of the MOVEit mess

Hundreds of thousands of employees from major corporations including Xerox, Nokia, Koch, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others appear to be the latest victims in a massive data breach linked to last year's attacks on file transfer tool MOVEit.…

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The latest in an unusual change of fortune for group once protected by the Kremlin

An alleged former affiliate of the LockBit and Babuk ransomware operations, who also just happens to be one of the most wanted cybercriminals in the US, is now reportedly in handcuffs.…