January 27, 2025
US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies
Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international computer security policies.…
DeepSeek suspends new registrations amid cyberattack
Chinese AI startup grapples with consequences of sudden popularity China's DeepSeek, which shook up US AI companies with the debut of its R1 model family, has limited new signups due to ongoing cyberattack.…
Google takes action after coder reports ‘most sophisticated attack I’ve ever seen’
Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost Google says it's now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.…
Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage
NATO increasing patrols in the Baltic as region awaits navy drones Swedish authorities have "seized" a vessel – believed to be the cargo ship Vezhen – "suspected of carrying out sabotage" after a cable running between Sweden and Latvia in the Baltic Sea was damaged on the morning of…
CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy
Also, Subaru web portal spills user deets, Tornado Cash sanctions overturned, a Stark ransomware attack, and more Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare's content delivery network to approximate the locations of users of apps like Signal, Discord, and others.…
British Museum says ex-contractor ‘shut down’ IT systems, wreaked havoc
Former freelancer cuffed a week after being dismissed by UK's top visitor attraction The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some onsite IT systems.…