JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns Continue reading JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
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Ex-soldier’s telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments Continue reading Ex-soldier’s telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes Continue reading Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline Continue reading OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Fake Google Security Team ad says ‘no script reading’ in voice phishing – then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast Continue reading Fake Google Security Team ad says ‘no script reading’ in voice phishing – then prints the script
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to ‘protect our business’
Data theft and extortion biz, that is Continue reading ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to ‘protect our business’
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app Continue reading Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime … to the surprise of nobody Continue reading Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record. Continue reading Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
Operator’s AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan Continue reading Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs