May 2025
Good luck to Atos’ 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers If at first you don't succeed, transform, transform, and transform again is the corporate motto at Atos these days. The lumbering French-based megacorp has created another blueprint to return to its glory days, and it…
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already
AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason Sponsored feature From the written word through to gunpowder and email, whenever an enabling technology comes along, you can be sure someone will be ready to use it for evil. Most tech is…
Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI
They're smishing, they're vishing The FBI has warned that fraudsters are impersonating "senior US officials" using deepfakes as part of a major fraud campaign.…
Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores
DragonForce-riding ransomware ring also has 'shiny object syndrome' so will likely move on to another sector soon Interview The same miscreants behind recent cyberattacks on British retailers are now trying to dig their claws into major American retailers' IT environments – and in some cases possibly even deploying…
Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a breach disclosure…
One expert tells us: 'It is the most unique breach disclosure I've ever seen' Coinbase says some of its overseas support staff were paid off to steal information on behalf of cybercriminals, and the company is now being extorted for $20 million.…
Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore
Sometimes, less information is more In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.…
Snowflake CISO on the power of ‘shared destiny’ and ‘yes and’
Lessons learned from last year's security snafu interview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.…
Here’s what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer
Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.…
Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play
Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scrapped a highly lucrative cybersecurity contract originally awarded to Leidos following a legal challenge from rival bidder Nightwing, yet insists the pushback had nothing to do with…
Ivanti patches two zero-days under active attack as intel agency warns customers
Vendor says vulns are linked with 2 mystery open source libraries integrated into EPMM product Australia's intelligence agency is warning organizations about several new Ivanti zero-days chained for remote code execution (RCE) attacks. The vendor itself has said the vulns are linked to two mystery open source libraries…