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Trojanized ESET Installers Drop Kalambur Backdoor in Phishing Attacks on Ukraine 2025-11-06 at 19:09 By A previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity company ESET as part of phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. The campaign, detected in May 2025, is tracked by the security outfit under the moniker InedibleOchotense, describing it […]

Vibe coding named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant 2025-11-06 at 17:40 By Lindsay Clark It’s not a bug, it’s a feeling Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?… This

You’ll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will 2025-11-06 at 16:45 By Brandon Vigliarolo Most of you still can’t do better than 123456? 123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with another

Microsoft: Don’t let AI agents near your credit card yet 2025-11-06 at 16:45 By Richard Speed Shopping bots pick first option and ‘vulnerable to manipulation’, Magentic Marketplace trial finds Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces

Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence 2025-11-06 at 15:30 By Richard Speed Intune is where the party’s at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.… This article

Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge 2025-11-06 at 14:50 By Dan Robinson Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.… This article is an excerpt from

Boffins: cloud computing’s on-demand biz model is failing us 2025-11-06 at 14:50 By Lindsay Clark Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei’s Slack 2025-11-06 at 14:50 By Carly Page Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees’ chats, spilling info on staff and partners Japanese media behemoth Nikkei has admitted to a data breach after miscreants slipped into its internal Slack workspace, exposing the personal details of more than 17,000 employees and

Panelists to Discuss Crisis Management When Threats Overlap 2025-11-06 at 14:50 By The “Crisis Leadership in the Age of Polycrisis” panel at the 2025 SECURITY 500 Conference will feature security leaders discussing the intricacies of crisis management when threats overlap. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Tools in Malware, Botnets, GDI Flaws, Election Attacks & More 2025-11-06 at 14:50 By Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence like a service, and even trusted apps or social platforms

Bitdefender Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response 2025-11-06 at 14:50 By Bitdefender has once again been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) — marking the fourth consecutive year of inclusion. According to Gartner, more than 600

SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach 2025-11-06 at 14:26 By Carly Page Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups.… This

From Tabletop to Turnkey: Building Cyber Resilience in Financial Services 2025-11-06 at 13:59 By Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of cybersecurity,

UK space sector ‘lacks strategic direction,’ Lords warn 2025-11-06 at 11:51 By Richard Speed Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services The UK’s House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, “The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out,” declaring that the 2021 National

Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection 2025-11-06 at 10:28 By The threat actor known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technologies as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the adversary is said to have enabled the

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS 2025-11-06 at 08:37 By Simon Sharwood Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

The Silent Insider Threat: When Employees Undermine Cybersecurity Messaging 2025-11-06 at 08:37 By One of the most damaging vulnerabilities often sits inside the organization: inconsistent communication from employees. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach 2025-11-06 at 08:04 By SonicWall has formally implicated state-sponsored threat actors as behind the September security breach that led to the unauthorized exposure of firewall configuration backup files. “The malicious activity – carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor – was isolated to the unauthorized access

Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever 2025-11-06 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Zohran Mamdani taps Big Tech antagonist Lina Khan as co-chair of mayoral transition team 2025-11-06 at 03:23 By Thomas Barrabi Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of his transition team. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original