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UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM Resorts cyberattack probe
17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will 'relentlessly pursue' miscreants around the globe Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las Vegas with ransomware last summer.…
CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear
Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday Kettle If you're an IT administrator with Windows boxes on your network, Friday can't have been a lot of fun. What's likely millions of systems were or still are stuck in blue-screen boot loop hell, mostly requiring manual intervention…
CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround Updated An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows globally.…
North Korea likely behind takedown of Indian crypto exchange WazirX
Firm halts trades after seeing $230 million disappear Indian crypto exchange WazirX has revealed it lost virtual assets valued at over $230 million after a cyber attack that has since been linked to North Korea.…
Beijing’s attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China
Run by the NSA, the FBI, and Five Eyes nations, who fooled infosec researchers, apparently China has wildly claimed the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact made up by the US intelligence community.…
Judge mostly drags SEC’s lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin
Russia-invaded software biz 'grateful for the support we have received' A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America's financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and the backdooring of its Orion product.…
Kaspersky challenges US government to put up or shut up about Kremlin ties
Stick an independent probe in our software, you won't find any Putin.DLL backdoor Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products – by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not backdoored by the Kremlin.…
Russia’s FIN7 is peddling its EDR-nerfing malware to ransomware gangs
Major vendors' products scuppered by novel techniques Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs.…
Maximum-severity Cisco vulnerability allows attackers to change admin passwords
You’re going to want to patch this one Cisco just dropped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to change the password of any user, including admins.…
Firms skip security reviews of major app updates about half the time
Complicated, costly, time-consuming – pick three Cyber security workers only review major updates to software applications only 54 percent of the time, according to a poll of tech managers.…