July 2025
As ransomware gangs threaten physical harm, ‘I am afraid of what’s next,’ ex-negotiator says
Crims warned 40% of respondents that they and their families would suffer Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.…
Gene scanner pays $9.8 million to get feds off its back in security flap
Illumina allegedly lied about its testing devices meeting government standards Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it has been selling the feds genetic testing systems riddled with security vulnerabilities the…
Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake
No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.…
Beijing summons Nvidia over alleged backdoors in China-bound AI chips
H20 silicon under the microscope after slipping through US export bans China's internet watchdog has hauled Nvidia in for a grilling over alleged backdoors in its H20 chips, the latest twist in the increasingly paranoid semiconductor spat between Washington and Beijing.…
Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says
Russia spying on foreign embassies? Say it ain't so Russian cyberspies are abusing local internet service providers' networks to target foreign embassies in Moscow and collect intel from diplomats' devices, according to a Microsoft Threat Intelligence warning.…
Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says
US court docs reveal that infamous Chinese snoops filed IP papers like tax returns Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied to Beijing's Silk Typhoon espionage crew.…
Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with ‘strategic market status’
Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them.…
Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords
Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…
Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack
'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack' Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul.…
Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk
The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today.…