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If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you
Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim GCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices.…
Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies
Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."…
France’s ‘Secure’ ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records
Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.…
Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges
Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly…
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot
Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks
CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.…
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets
Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more than 200 extensions.…
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords
Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same.…
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account
CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M Vercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with "surprising velocity" and a deep understanding of the company's infrastructure.…