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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t exist
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.…
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears
Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security.…
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers’ trap
Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world…
Microsoft warns of ‘payroll pirate’ crew looting US university salaries
Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…
Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz
US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris…
UK techies’ union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details
Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…
It’s trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic
Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …
SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke
Affects users regardless of when their backups were created SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were…
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort
CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…
Germany slams brakes on EU’s Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest
Berlin's opposition likely kills off Brussels' bid to scan everyone's messages Germany has committed to oppose the EU's controversial "Chat Control" regulations following huge pressure from multiple activists and major organizations.…