December 2024
Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC annual review warns
National cyber emergencies increased threefold this year The number of security threats in the UK that hit the country's National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) maximum severity threshold has tripled compared to the previous 12 months.…
Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs
No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind bars A Russian court has handed a life sentence to the head of the infamous online drugs souk Hydra, and 15 of his co-conspirators will also spend many years behind bars.…
Data on 760K workers from Xerox, Nokia, BofA, Morgan Stanley and more dumped online
Yet another result of the MOVEit mess Hundreds of thousands of employees from major corporations including Xerox, Nokia, Koch, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others appear to be the latest victims in a massive data breach linked to last year's attacks on file transfer tool MOVEit.…
AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month
Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricing Re:Invent Amazon Web Services has a new incident response service that combines automation and people to protect customers' AWS accounts - at a hefty price.…
Discover the future of Linux security
Explore open source strategies to safeguard critical systems and data Webinar Linux security is a component that sits at the heart of today's IT landscape.…
Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI’s most wanted list
The latest in an unusual change of fortune for group once protected by the Kremlin An alleged former affiliate of the LockBit and Babuk ransomware operations, who also just happens to be one of the most wanted cybercriminals in the US, is now reportedly in handcuffs.…
Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone’s getting burned
The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians Opinion Here's a front-page headline you won't see these days: CHINA'S SPIES ARE TAPPING OUR PHONES. Not that they're not – they are – but, like the environment, there's so much cybersecurity horror in the…
Interpol nabs thousands, seizes millions in global cybercrime-busting op
Also, script kiddies still a threat, Tornado Cash is back, UK firms lose billions to avoidable attacks, and more Infosec in brief Interpol and its financial supporters in the South Korean government are back with another round of anti-cybercrime arrests via the fifth iteration of Operation HAECHI, this…