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Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info
If you're gonna come at the mouse, you need to be better at hiding your tracks A disgruntled ex-Disney employee has been arrested and charged with hacking his former employer's systems to alter restaurant menus with potentially deadly consequences. …
Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive
The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia's foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and the spies are using a novel info-gathering technique.…
Beijing claims it’s found ‘underwater lighthouses’ that its foes use for espionage
Release the Kraken! China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets.…
Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware
Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer. …
Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code
'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher OpenAI's language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model's built-in security guardrails and abuse the AI for evil purposes, according to…
Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting
US also charges an alleged Redline dev, no mention of an arrest International law enforcement officials have arrested two individuals and charged another in connection with the use and distribution of the Redline and Meta infostealer malware strains.…
The story behind the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act
Health care breaches lead to legislation Partner Content Breaches breed regulation; which hopefully in turn breeds meaningful change.…
Admins better Spring into action over latest critical open source vuln
Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem If you're running an application built using the Spring development framework, now is a good time to check it's fully updated – a new, critical-severity vulnerability has just been disclosed.…
Merde! Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
It's not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava.…
Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again
Only took 'em a year to dish up some scary travel advice, and a Secure Innovation … Placemat? Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes nations have delivered on a promise to offer tech startups more guidance on how to stay secure.…