2024
Belgian ale legend Duvel’s brewery borked as ransomware halts production
Company reassures public it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage.…
VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws
Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are not quite so inviolable as it might…
Here’s something else AI can do: expose bad infosec to give cyber-crims a toehold in your organization
Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year.…
US lawmakers want ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban
The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property – or see it banned in the US.…
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google
Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams.…
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets
Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly A now-former Google employee has been charged with stealing the ad giant’s AI trade secrets while quietly working for two Chinese companies – after easily defeating whatever security controls Big G had in place.…
FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks
Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon Digital crimes potentially cost victims more than $12.5 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report. …
Apple’s trademark tight lips extend to new iPhone, iPad zero-days
Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4 Apple's latest security patches address four vulnerabilities affecting iOS and iPadOS, including two zero-days that intel suggests attackers have already exploited.…
Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss
Additional cuts announced, sparking fears of further layoffs Outsourcing giant Capita today reported a net loss of £106.6 million ($135.6 million) for calendar 2023, with the costly cyberattack by criminals making a hefty dent in its annual financials.…
Chip lobby group SEMI to EU: Export restrictions should only be used in self-defense
Please don't scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff? SEMI, an industry association representing 3,000 chip vendors, would really appreciate it if the European Union would back off plans to impose export controls on China, arguing that they should only be used…