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Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

The Register - 9 hours 52 sec ago
Time to start dropping SBOMs

FEATURE  Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if not more – organizations. We won't know the full blast radius for months.…

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Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard'

The Register - 11 hours 41 min ago
Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts

Hungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.…

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CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

The Register - Fri, 10/04/2026 - 13:53
Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers

Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…

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Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

The Register - Fri, 10/04/2026 - 12:30
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities

Opinion  Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…

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Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

The Register - Fri, 10/04/2026 - 12:01
Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime

The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.…

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Unpacking AI security in 2026 from experimentation to the agentic era

The Register - Fri, 10/04/2026 - 09:00
Cut through the noise and understand the real risks, responsibilities, and responses shaping enterprise AI today.

Webinar Promo  2025 was the year of AI experimentation. In 2026, the bills are coming due. AI adoption has moved from isolated pilots to autonomous, enterprise wide deployment, bringing with it a sophisticated new generation of security challenges.…

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Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 19:20
Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…

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'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 18:11
Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in

A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…

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Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 16:20
UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline

A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…

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Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 15:30
Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload

Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…

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Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 15:00
No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…

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Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 14:00
Wash your mouth out with digital soap

Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have shown.…

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Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 12:32
Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash

UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account.…

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Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 09:00
Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days

PWNED  Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as simple as fitness gear, there's no excuse for leaving security credentials lying around.…

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Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter

The Register - Thu, 09/04/2026 - 08:00
The time is maybe

Quantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it's both a pending threat and a technology of no immediate consequence for decryption.…

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Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 22:09
If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back

interview  It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware."…

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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 12:30
ChipSoft's website remains down but emails are functioning

A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say.…

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NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 11:00
Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised

Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.…

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Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 07:53
President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war

Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.…

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Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 00:50
Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way

For years, the infosec community’s biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the world’s secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities.…

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