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Polish space agency confirms cyberattack

The Register - Anti-Virus - 3 Březen, 2025 - 13:45
Officials vow to uncover who was behind it

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday.…

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UK watchdog investigates TikTok and Reddit over child data privacy concerns

The Register - Anti-Virus - 3 Březen, 2025 - 13:23
ICO looking at what data is used to serve up recommendations

The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users.…

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Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

The Register - Anti-Virus - 3 Březen, 2025 - 10:30
Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go

Opinion  With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands E2EE backdoors, it's looking bleak.…

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US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia

The Register - Anti-Virus - 3 Březen, 2025 - 04:31
PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more

Infosec In Brief  US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia – as the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has denied any change in its posture.…

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C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

The Register - Anti-Virus - 2 Březen, 2025 - 18:46
Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.…

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Ransomware criminals love CISA's KEV list – and that's a bug, not a feature

The Register - Anti-Virus - 28 Únor, 2025 - 20:07
1 in 3 entries are used to extort civilians, says new paper

Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks.…

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Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators

The Register - Anti-Virus - 28 Únor, 2025 - 05:02
Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim

Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.…

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Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Únor, 2025 - 23:41
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime

The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…

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FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Únor, 2025 - 22:45
Federal agents, open up ... your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets

The FBI has officially accused North Korea's Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for help tracking down the stolen funds.…

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Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Únor, 2025 - 08:29
Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity

Updated  Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s output across a range of topics.…

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Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Únor, 2025 - 01:52
Boffins poked around inside censorship engines – here's what they found

Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years.…

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With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Únor, 2025 - 00:43
244M purloined passwords added to Have I Been Pwned thanks to govt tip-off

A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to privacy-breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).…

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Bybit declares war on North Korea's Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet

The Register - Anti-Virus - 27 Únor, 2025 - 00:08
Up to $140M in bounty rewards for return of Ethereum allegedly pilfered by hermit nation

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, just days after suspected North Korean operatives stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum from it, has launched a bounty program to help recover its funds.…

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Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)

The Register - Anti-Virus - 26 Únor, 2025 - 19:57
Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 'droid 15

It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it'll provide Android software updates, including vulnerability fixes, for its latest chipsets for eight years instead of four.…

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Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

The Register - Anti-Virus - 26 Únor, 2025 - 13:30
Experts warned the UK’s recent 'victory' over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect

Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messaging providers to allow law enforcement officials to access encrypted user data, as Sweden continues to mull such plans.…

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200-plus impressively convincing GitHub repos are serving up malware

The Register - Anti-Virus - 26 Únor, 2025 - 08:35
Plus: DOGE staff quit; LastPass PC, Mac gasp; and CISA warns Oracle and Adobe flaws under attack

Infosec bytes  Kaspersky says it has found more than 200 GitHub repos hosting fairly convincing-looking fake projects laced with malicious software.…

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Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in

The Register - Anti-Virus - 26 Únor, 2025 - 03:31
Plus: New figurehead of DOGE emerges and they aren't called Elon

During confirmation hearings in the US Senate Tuesday for the role of deputy director of the Dept of Homeland Security, the nominee Troy Edgar said CISA has had the wrong management and needed to be "reined in."…

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Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions

The Register - Anti-Virus - 26 Únor, 2025 - 01:05
If there's something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling

DISA Global Solutions, a company that provides drug and alcohol testing, background checks, and other employee screening services, this week notified over 3.3 million people that their sensitive information may have been stolen by miscreants.…

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Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

The Register - Anti-Virus - 25 Únor, 2025 - 22:39
Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it

Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee's Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught.…

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MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

The Register - Anti-Virus - 25 Únor, 2025 - 21:47
Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or?

The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE's Caldera security training platform has urged users to "immediately pull down the latest version." As in, download it and install it.…

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