2025
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project
Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations The UK's Home Office is inviting tech suppliers to take part in a £60 million "market engagement" for an application that uses data from automated number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to ‘endlessly harass’ execs
Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game' Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.…
Radiant Group won’t touch kids’ data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game
Ransomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compass First they targeted a preschool network, now new kids on the ransomware block Radiant Group say they've hit a hospital in the US, continuing their deplorable early cybercrime careers.…
Thieves steal IDs and payment info after data leaks from Discord support vendor
Outsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else's breach becomes your problem Discord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.…
Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall
No confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming days Jaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg.…
Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day
Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abused for data theft and extortion.…
Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft
Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with data.…
Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat
Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – apparently bowing to government pressure.…
Munich Airport chaos after drone sightings spook air traffic control
Overnight shutdown leaves thousands stuck as Oktoberfest crowds stretch city security Munich Airport was temporarily closed last night following reports of drones buzzing around the area.…
UK government says digital ID won’t be compulsory – honest
Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition calling for it to be ditched.…