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We could tell you no for free The UK government will spend about £630,000 running a discussion panel on its digital identity card plans, which minister James Frith said will “consider different perspectives and debate trade-offs” alongside a formal con… Continue reading ‘People’s Panel’ to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K
ESET says factory outages, lost revenue, and supply chain disruption are becoming routine Nearly 80 percent of British manufacturers say they’ve been hit by a cyber incident in the past year, as new research suggests disruption on the factory floor is … Continue reading UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks
How to avoid social engineering attacks? Employee training tops the list Be careful what you click on. Miscreants are abusing WhatsApp messages in a multi-stage attack that delivers malicious Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages, allowing criminals to co… Continue reading Don’t open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns
Researchers say some targets correlate with cities hit by Iranian missile strikes Suspected Iran-linked threat actors are conducting password-spraying attacks against hundreds of organizations, primarily Middle Eastern municipalities, in campaigns that… Continue reading Iran targets M365 accounts with password-spraying attacks
Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios Updated One of npm’s most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer’s account… Continue reading Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines
Check Point says outbound controls blocked web traffic but overlooked DNS OpenAI talks up data security for its AI services, yet Check Point says that ChatGPT allowed data to leak through a DNS side channel before the flaw was fixed.… Continue reading OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS
Also, EU probes Snapchat, RedLine suspect extradited, AstraZeneca leak claim surfaces, and more infosec in brief The cybercrime crew linked to the Trivy supply-chain attack has struck again, this time pushing malicious Telnyx package versions to PyPI … Continue reading Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach
Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxes In-the-wild exploitation of a critical Citrix NetScaler bug has begun less than a week after disclosure, with researchers warning that attackers are already poking and pillaging vulnerable … Continue reading Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat
Brussels notifying ‘Union entities’ whose data may’ve been snatched in websites breach The European Commission has admitted that attackers broke into its public-facing web infrastructure and siphoned off data in a bare-bones disclosure that answers the… Continue reading European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else
Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences Who, Me? The week before Easter may be a short one for many in the Reg-reading world, but that won’t stop us from opening it with a fresh installment of Who, Me? It’s the reade… Continue reading Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew’s viral indifference