January 2025
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.…
Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet
Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia... Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.…
UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway
Spinner says crim's claims 'very significantly overstated' UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it's currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs.…
AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud
GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he's now in court – along with his wife – for allegedly bilking his company…
Don’t want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss* A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems, according to Akamai researcher Tomer Peled.…
North Korean dev who renamed himself ‘Bane’ accused of IT worker fraud scheme
5 indicted as FBI warns North Korea dials up aggression, plus Russian devs allegedly get in on the act The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed their last name…
China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.…