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UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project

The Register - Tue, 07/10/2025 - 09:30
Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations

The UK's Home Office is inviting tech suppliers to take part in a £60 million "market engagement" for an application that uses data from automated number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.…

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Credential stuffing: £2.31 million fine shows passwords are still the weakest link

The Register - Tue, 07/10/2025 - 09:00
How recycled passwords and poor security habits are fueling a cybercrime gold rush

Partner Content  If you're still using "password123" for more than one account, there's a good chance you've already exposed yourself to credential stuffing attacks — one of the most prevalent and damaging forms of automated cybercrime today. Just ask the 6.9 million users of 23andMe who discovered their personal details were compromised when cybercriminals used recycled credentials from other breaches to infiltrate their accounts.…

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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs

The Register - Mon, 06/10/2025 - 16:41
Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game'

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.…

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Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game

The Register - Mon, 06/10/2025 - 14:20
Ransomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compass

First they targeted a preschool network, now new kids on the ransomware block Radiant Group say they've hit a hospital in the US, continuing their deplorable early cybercrime careers.…

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Thieves steal IDs and payment info after data leaks from Discord support vendor

The Register - Mon, 06/10/2025 - 13:18
Outsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else's breach becomes your problem

Discord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.…

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Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall

The Register - Mon, 06/10/2025 - 11:28
No confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming days

Jaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg.…

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Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day

The Register - Mon, 06/10/2025 - 10:40
Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion

Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abused for data theft and extortion.…

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Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings

The Register - Mon, 06/10/2025 - 09:55
Plus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammers

Infosec in brief  On August 29, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its CISO, CIO, and 22 other staff for incompetence but insisted it wasn't in response to an online attack. New material suggests FEMA's claim may be false.…

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Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 15:42
Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched

What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with data.…

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Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 14:49
Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement

Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – apparently bowing to government pressure.…

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Munich Airport chaos after drone sightings spook air traffic control

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 13:58
Overnight shutdown leaves thousands stuck as Oktoberfest crowds stretch city security

Munich Airport was temporarily closed last night following reports of drones buzzing around the area.…

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UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 13:05
Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched

The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition calling for it to be ditched.…

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Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 12:38
Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs

Oracle has finally broken its silence on those Clop-linked extortion emails, but only to tell customers what they already should have known: patch your damn systems.…

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Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 09:55
Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt

Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked.…

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Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 18:04
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order

A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain.…

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Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 13:45
Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach

Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Big Red's E-Business Suite, according to researchers.…

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EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 13:02
Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate

An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.…

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Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 10:25
570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective

A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …

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US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 20:48
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register

The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews.…

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'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 20:35
Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?

A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.…

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