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Canada's WestJet says 'expect interruptions' online as it navigates cybersecurity turbulence

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 17:15
Flights still flying - just don't count on the app or website working smoothly

Canadian airline WestJet is warning of "intermittent interruptions or errors" on its app and website as it investigates a cybersecurity incident.…

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Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 15:28
Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.…

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Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 14:19
6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks

A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.…

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Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 13:42
But lose your code and it's gone for good

Updated  Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps and websites.…

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Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 11:41
Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'

A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency.…

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How collaborative security can build you a better business

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 09:00
Getting employees on board can do more than prevent breaches; it can send profitability soaring

Sponsored Post  Here's a sobering reality: 95% of data breaches involve human error. So, why do most organizations still throw technology at a fundamentally human problem? It's like trying to fix a leaky roof by buying better buckets.…

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Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme

Mon, 16/06/2025 - 03:45
PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more

Asia In Brief  Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.…

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Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain

Sun, 15/06/2025 - 23:01
PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more!

Infosec In Brief  A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US government funding for the scheme.…

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Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US

Fri, 13/06/2025 - 23:07
With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.…

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Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

Fri, 13/06/2025 - 19:20
Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links

Both Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this fact readily known to people downloading the apps.…

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Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks

Fri, 13/06/2025 - 16:24
Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent

Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.…

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Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD

Fri, 13/06/2025 - 14:36
Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2

Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment efforts, says industry training and cert issuer ISC2.…

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Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

Fri, 13/06/2025 - 09:29
It was one of the offenders' final warning

Four staffers at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.…

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Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks

Fri, 13/06/2025 - 00:55
Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo

Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.…

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'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes

Thu, 12/06/2025 - 11:29
Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist

Exclusive  Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.…

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DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out

Thu, 12/06/2025 - 00:42
'BrowserVenom' is pure poison

Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…

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Hire me! To drop malware on your computer

Wed, 11/06/2025 - 19:24
FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters

In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.…

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Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks

Wed, 11/06/2025 - 19:02
The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant

Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking.…

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Asia dismantles 20,000 malicious domains in infostealer crackdown

Wed, 11/06/2025 - 16:36
Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru

Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime.…

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Analysis to action: Operationalizing your threat intelligence

Wed, 11/06/2025 - 16:00
Timing is everything in the war against ransomware thieves, says Prelude Security

Partner content  When a new security advisory drops or an alarming new ransomware campaign makes the news, the question from leadership inevitably follows: "Are we covered?"…

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