2025
M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump
Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total.…
Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees
A ‘three-letter person’ experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he's given it a favorable report.…
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s security falls apart amid layoffs
Security program fails to meet federal standards as government cuts drain resources The infosec program run by the US' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) "is not effective," according to a fresh audit published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).…
Invasion of the message body snatchers! Teams flaw allowed crims to impersonate the boss
Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history Microsoft Teams, one of the world's most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat…
Cybercrooks getting violent more often to secure big payouts in Europe
France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally Researchers are seeing a "dramatic" increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…
OpenAI API moonlights as malware HQ in Microsoft’s latest discovery
Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI's Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware.…
China’s president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones
South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.…
Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo
Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks on freight companies.…
Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests
But question marks remain over the tech’s biases London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says the hundreds of live facial recognition (LFR) deployments across the Capital last year led to 962 arrests, according to a new report on the controversial tech's use.…
The race to shore up Europe’s power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage
Ukraine first to demo open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement Feature It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours.…