July 2024
Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished
Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Updated Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims' cryptography, the company confirmed today.…
Navigating Europe’s digital identity crossroads
How to get ready for the future of digital identity in the European Union from eIDAS 1.0 to eIDAS 2.0 and beyond Partner Content : Opening a bank account, making or receiving a payment, instructing an accountant or booking a doctor's appointment. These everyday tasks depend on identity,…
Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts
Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the pandemic forced more business to go…
Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia ‘more effectively’ than Putin
Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles Updated At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin's internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them down.…
Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals
Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single…
Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler
There's also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months.…
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it's not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.…
Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown
Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn't touch China Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike.…
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia's Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country's services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption key to the government.…
Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef
Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied Keen meatheads better hope they haven't angered any cybersecurity folk before allowing their Traeger grills to update because a new high-severity vulnerability could be used for all kinds of high jinks.…