Cybersecurity
Spy turned startup CEO: ‘The WannaCry of AI will happen’
Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year Interview "In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day," Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said.…
Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture
Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world's music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify and offer it up for free as what…
Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim
Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that he conned.…
Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency
On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs Romania's cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country's water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still ongoing.…
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea's government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.…
NIST tried to pull the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around Boulder, Colorado, led to errors.…
ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US
Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as "a ruthless terrorist organization" faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions of dollars.…
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack
Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls WatchGuard is in emergency patch mode after confirming that a critical remote code execution flaw in its Firebox firewalls is under active attack.…
Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo
Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people The University of Sydney is ringing around thousands of current and former staff and students after admitting attackers helped themselves to historical personal data stashed inside one of its online code repositories.…
HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10
Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform Hewlett Packard Enterprise has told customers to drop whatever they're doing and patch OneView after admitting a maximum-severity bug could let attackers run code on the management platform without so much as a login prompt.…