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Yep, cell carriers didn't have to do this before

The FCC's updated reporting requirements mean telcos in America will have just seven days to officially disclose that a criminal has broken into their systems.…

Pulls part of system offline as Black Basta docs suggest the worst

Willis Lease Finance Corporation has admitted to US regulators that it fell prey to a "cybersecurity incident" after data purportedly stolen from the biz was posted to the Black Basta ransomware group's leak blog.…

Experts also put an end to social media security updates

The Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) and the experts it drafted to help clean up the mess caused by a January cyberattack still can't figure out whether members' data was stolen.…

PLUS: Juniper's support portal leaks customer info; Canada moves to ban Flipper Zero; Critical vulns

Infosec In Brief  Nearly half the citizens of France have had their data exposed in a massive security breach at two third-party healthcare payment servicers, the French data privacy watchdog disclosed last week.…

Some useful indicators of compromise right here

More than 70,000 presumably legit websites have been hijacked and drafted into a network that crooks use to distribute malware, serve phishing pages, and share other dodgy stuff, according to researchers.…

Software company's claim of there being no active exploits also being questioned

In disclosing yet another vulnerability in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways, Ivanti has confused the third-party researchers who discovered it.…

An orchestra of fails for the security vendor

We've had to write the word "Fortinet" so often lately that we're considering making a macro just to make our lives a little easier after what the company's reps will surely agree has been a week sent from hell.…

Should you be paying more attention to securing your AI models from attack?

Webinar  As artificial intelligence (AI) technology becomes increasingly complex so do the threats from bad actors. It is like a forever war.…

Reserve Bank also wants a national 2FA framework

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced on Thursday it would make its digital currency programmable, and ensure it can be exchanged when citizens are offline.…

That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code

Singapore-based infosec firm Group-IB has detected a group that spent the last two months of 2023 stealing personal info from websites operated by jobs boards and retailers websites across Asia.…

Honor among thieves about to be put to the test

The US government has placed an extra $5 million bounty on Hive ransomware gang members – its second such reward in a year. And it also comes a little over 11 months since the FBI said it had shut down the criminal organization's network.…

Never mind the court orders obtained to thwart Volt Typhoon botnet

Analysis  The FBI's latest PR salvo, as it fights to preserve its warrantless snooping powers on Americans via FISA Section 702, is more big talk of cyberattacks by the Chinese government.…

No walled garden can keep out every weed, we suppose

LastPass says a rogue application impersonating its popular password manager made it past Apple's gatekeepers and was listed in the iOS App Store for unsuspecting folks to download and install.…

One of most important malware loaders to cybercrims who are jumping on vulnerabilities faster than ever

Researchers suspect the criminals behind the Raspberry Robin malware are now buying exploits for speedier cyberattacks.…

Security researcher buddies allegedly tag team a four-month virtual gift card heist at Cupertino tech giant

A cybersecurity researcher and his pal are facing charges in California after they allegedly defrauded an unnamed company, almost certainly Apple, out of $2.5 million.…

Security is a process, not a product. Nor a language

Memory-safety flaws represent the majority of high-severity problems for Google and Microsoft, but they're not necessarily associated with the majority of vulnerabilities that actually get exploited.…

Plan says to hand over keys to networks – and report intrusions within eight hours of discovery

Organizations that sell IT services to Uncle Sam are peeved at proposed changes to procurement rules that would require them to allow US government agencies full access to their systems in the event of a security incident.…

Presumably American TLAs are all over Beijing's infrastructure, too ... right?

Volt Typhoon isn't the only Chinese spying crew infiltrating computer networks in America's energy sector and other critical organizations with the aim of wrecking equipment and causing other headaches, the US government has said.…

The other half paid attention in class?

Half of infosec professionals polled by Kaspersky said any cybersecurity knowledge they picked up from their higher education is at best somewhat useful for doing their day jobs. On the other hand, half said the know-how was at least very useful. We're a glass half-empty lot.…

12 international govt agencies sound the alarm, critical infrastructure at the heart of threats

The US government today confirmed China's Volt Typhoon crew comprised "multiple" critical infrastructure org's IT networks in America – and Uncle Sam warned that the Beijing-backed spies are readying "disruptive or destructive cyberattacks" against those targets.…