2024
Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers’ designs
Kim Jong Un's all in for home-built silicon says warning North Korean government spies have broken into the servers of at least two chipmakers and stolen product designs as part of attempts to spur Kim Jong Un's plans for a domestic semiconductor industry, according to Seoul's security agency.…
German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco’s WebEx
Officials can't tell whether the tape was edited, but fear Kremlin has more juicy bits to release in the future The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war efforts in Ukraine, leaked by Russian media, is legitimate.…
Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday
Increasingly clear number of permanent solutions is narrowing Global law enforcement authorities' attempts to shutter the LockBit ransomware crew have sparked a fresh call for a ban on ransomware payments to perpetrators.…
LockBit’s contested claim of fresh ransom payment suggests it’s been well hobbled
ALSO: CISA warns Ivanti vuln mitigations might not work, SAML hijack doesn't need ADFS, and crit vulns Infosec in brief The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been busy in the ten days since an international law enforcement operation took down many of its systems. But despite its posturing,…
Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats
Misinformation is rife, AI makes it easier to create, and 42 percent of the planet’s inhabitants get to vote this year Feature Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation's ability to counter these…
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker
Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US court on Monday.…
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
/* Hope no one ever reads these functions lmao */ NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for "all relevant spyware" with Meta's WhatsApp.…
Iranian charged over attacks against US defense contractors, government agencies
$10M bounty for anyone with info leading to Alireza Shafie Nasab's identification or location The US Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment accusing an Iranian national of a years-long campaign that compromised hundreds of thousands of accounts and attempting to infiltrate US defense contractors and multiple government…
In the vanguard of 21st century cyber threats
Everything you need to know about quantum safe encryption Webinar The quantum threat might seem futuristic, more like something you'd encounter in a science fiction film. But it's arguably already a danger to real cyber security defences.…
Cops visit school of ‘wrong person’s child,’ mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed up two people's personal data for…