Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer’s systems
A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer’s Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that…
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Chemist Warehouse runs AI on HR shared inbox
Chemist Warehouse is running AI on a shared email inbox for human resources queries from its 30,000 employees and store owners, using it to detect…
Apple discloses actively exploited zero-day affecting iOS, iPadOS and macOS
Apple rushed an emergency software update to its customers Wednesday to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting the software powering the company’s most popular…
Colt confirms customer data stolen as Warlock ransomware auctions files
UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services confirms that customer documentation was stolen as Warlock ransomware gang auctions files. The British telecommunications and network services provider…
Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw
Apple has pushed another update to its mobile operating systems, iOS and iPadOS, to address a newly-discovered zero-day that is already being exploited by threat…
House lawmakers take aim at education requirements for federal cyber jobs
The top lawmakers on a key House cybersecurity panel are hoping to remove a barrier to entry for cyber jobs in the federal government. Introduced…
Threat Actors Exploiting Victims’ Machines for Bandwidth Monetization
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing campaign where threat actors exploit the critical CVE-2024-36401 vulnerability in GeoServer, a geospatial database, to remotely execute code and…
Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI
Threat actors linked to the Russian government are falling back on a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco equipment that was first uncovered in 2018, according to…
AI browsers fall for scams and phishing, security researchers say
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) web browsers that can act autonomously on users’ behalf appear to be extremely gullible and unsafe to use, falling for hoary…
Hackers Weaponize QR Codes With Malicious Links to Steal Sensitive Data
Quishing, a powerful form of phishing that uses malicious hyperlinks contained in QR codes to expose user credentials and sensitive data, has surfaced in the…
Scale of MoD Afghan data breaches widens dramatically
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted there have been more than 12 times as many data breaches linked to its Afghan Relocations and Assistance…
CrowdStrike warns of uptick in Silk Typhoon attacks this summer
The Chinese state-backed threat group Silk Typhoon has raised the pace of attacks targeting government, technology, legal and professional services in North America since late…