September 2025
It looks like you’re ransoming data. Would you like some help?
AI-powered ransomware, extortion chatbots, vibe hacking … just wait until agents replace affiliates It's no secret that AI tools make it easier for cybercriminals to steal sensitive data and then extort victim organizations. But two recent developments illustrate exactly how much LLMs lower the bar for ransomware and…
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown
Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore.…
Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment
‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’ Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.…
How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach
Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted? The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.…
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight
Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning.…
Zscaler latest victim of Salesloft Drift attacks, customer data exposed
Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers' data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases.…
Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data
Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.…
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers
Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019 Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.…
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk
Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions.…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with…