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Valencia Ransomware crew explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims 2024-09-20 at 02:31 By Jessica Lyons Boasts ‘appear to be credible’ experts tell El Reg A California city, a Spanish fashion giant, an Indian paper manufacturer, and two pharmaceutical companies are the alleged victims of what looks like a new […]

No way? Big Tech’s ‘lucrative surveillance’ of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom 2024-09-20 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that’s far

Iran’s cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them 2024-09-20 at 00:03 By Jessica Lyons To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap The Iranian cyber snoops who stole files from the Trump campaign, with the intention of leaking those documents, tried to slip the data to the Biden camp

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS 2024-09-19 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue The European Commission intends to force Apple to open its walled garden.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Wherever There’s Ransomware, There’s Service Account Compromise. Are You Protected? 2024-09-19 at 21:46 By Until just a couple of years ago, only a handful of IAM pros knew what service accounts are. In the last years, these silent Non-Human-Identities (NHI) accounts have become one of the most targeted and compromised attack surfaces. Assessments report that

Starlink’s new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals 2024-09-19 at 20:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes The second generation of Starlink satellites being lobbed into orbit by SpaceX might not reflect as much sunlight as the old ones, yet astronomers say they’re leaking

Hackers Exploit Default Credentials in FOUNDATION Software to Breach Construction Firms 2024-09-19 at 19:31 By Threat actors have been observed targeting the construction sector by infiltrating the FOUNDATION Accounting Software, according to new findings from Huntress. “Attackers have been observed brute-forcing the software at scale, and gaining access simply by using the product’s default credentials,”

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage 2024-09-19 at 19:21 By Connor Jones Many left reeling from July’s IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike’s outage in July are dropping

Liars in the wires: Getting the most from GenAI without getting duped 2024-09-19 at 19:21 By How can organizations get the most from GenAI without getting duped?  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Torvalds weighs in on ‘nasty’ Rust vs C for Linux debate 2024-09-19 at 18:18 By Richard Speed This is like vi vs Emacs with ‘religious overtones,’ project chief laughs Linux is 33 years old. Its creator, Linus Torvalds, still enjoys an argument or two but is baffled why the debate over Rust has attracted so

New TeamTNT Cryptojacking Campaign Targets CentOS Servers with Rootkit 2024-09-19 at 17:31 By The cryptojacking operation known as TeamTNT has likely resurfaced as part of a new campaign targeting Virtual Private Server (VPS) infrastructures based on the CentOS operating system. “The initial access was accomplished via a Secure Shell (SSH) brute force attack on the

New Brazilian-Linked SambaSpy Malware Targets Italian Users via Phishing Emails 2024-09-19 at 17:31 By A previously undocumented malware called SambaSpy is exclusively targeting users in Italy via a phishing campaign orchestrated by a suspected Brazilian Portuguese-speaking threat actor. “Threat actors usually try to cast a wide net to maximize their profits, but these attackers are

Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations 2024-09-19 at 17:18 By Connor Jones Better check your widgets, people Security researchers say that thousands of companies are potentially leaking secrets from their internal knowledge base (KB) articles via ServiceNow misconfigurations.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it 2024-09-19 at 16:16 By Lindsay Clark Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Over the last 20 years, ERP is the category of enterprise software deemed slowest to modernize because of priority given to sexier front office applications and senior decision-makers’ aversion to

52% of consumers have an increased fear of becoming a fraud victim 2024-09-19 at 16:16 By A recent study found that the majority of people worldwide (58%) are more fearful of becoming fraud victims now than they were two years ago.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe 2024-09-19 at 16:01 By Richard Speed Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has declared it needs fresh powers after the European Commission elected not to investigate Microsoft’s acquihire of AI startup Inflection.…