September 2025
SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC
Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers The US Secret Service has dismantled a network of SIM farms in and around New York City it claims was behind multiple incidents targeting senior government officials and had enough power to disrupt entire cellular networks.…
Kaspersky: RevengeHotels checks back in with AI-coded malware
Old hotel scam gets an AI facelift, leaving travellers’ card details even more at risk Kaspersky has raised the alarm over the resurgence of hotel-hacking outfit "RevengeHotels," which it claims is now using artificial intelligence to supercharge its scams.…
OpenSSF warns that open source infrastructure doesn’t run on thoughts and prayers
Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone's gotta pay the bills The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has had enough of being the unpaid janitor of the world's software supply chain.…
EU’s cyber agency blames ransomware as Euro airport check-in chaos continues
Airport staff revert to manual ops as travellers urged to use self-service check-in where possible The EU's cybersecurity agency today confirmed that ransonmware is the cause of continued disruption blighting major airports across Europe.…
Car giant Stellantis says customer data nicked after partner vendor pwned
Automaker insists only names and emails exposed, no financials Car giant Stellantis is admitting that attackers targeted one of its third-party partners, spilling its own customers' details in the process.…
FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security
Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech - yet trying to do so in a way that the data of its 28 million customers is kept away…
Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs
The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…
Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic
‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.…
ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt
Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.…
Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says
Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…