2025
HMRC: Crooks broke into 100k accounts, stole £43M from British taxpayer in late 2024
It’s definitely not a cyberattack though! Really! The UK's tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.…
AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010 A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.…
China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help
The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Thursday published a report in which it claims…
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…
Crims stole 40,000 people’s data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises
Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.…
UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict
Government details latest initiative following announcement last week Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says "there are pockets of excellence" but improvements must be made to ensure the country's capability meets the needs of national defense.…
Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones
Why? There's a war in Europe, Finland has a belligerent neighbor, and cyber is a settled field Interview Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he's moving onto drone warfare.…
‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator.…
Crooks fleece The North Face accounts with recycled logins
Outdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewhere.…
Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma
Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code.…