Special Features News • The Register

Special Features News • The Register

Special Features

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

Exclusive Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier

Malware Month05 Jul 2024 | 35

Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown

Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn't touch China

Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 7

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key

Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway

Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 34

Patelco banking services AWOL amid ransomware ruckus

Late fees? Don't worry, the credit union has you covered

Malware Month03 Jul 2024 | 2

No rest for the wiry as Cisco Nexus switches flip out over latest zero-day

Command injection bug being abused by suspected Chinese spies – patch up

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 6

Despite OS shields up, half of America opts for third-party antivirus – just in case

Wisdom of the oldies or just a traditional fear of malware?

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 48

Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank

Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 2

Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware

Notorious 'Andariel' crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 |

Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option

President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory

Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23

Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown

Updated No supply-chain attacks to see over here!

Research28 Jun 2024 | 28

UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns

Attacking the NHS is a very bad move

Malware Month25 Jun 2024 | 26

Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin

28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe

Malware Month13 Jun 2024 | 13

Ransomware crew may have exploited Windows make-me-admin bug as a zero-day

Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch

Malware Month12 Jun 2024 | 2

Akira: Perhaps the next big thing in ransomware, says Tidal threat intelligence chief

Interview Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs

Malware Month09 Jun 2024 | 3

FBI encourages LockBit victims to step right up for free decryption keys

The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments

Malware Month06 Jun 2024 | 6

7-year-old Oracle WebLogic bug under active exploitation

Experts say Big Red will probably re-release patch in an upcoming cycle

Malware Month06 Jun 2024 | 6

What is RansomHub? Looks like a Knight ransomware reboot

Malware code potentially sold off, tweaked, back at it infecting victims

Malware Month05 Jun 2024 | 1

Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains

Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol

Malware Month30 May 2024 |

Here's yet more ransomware using BitLocker against Microsoft's own users

Updated ShrinkLocker throws steel and vaccine makers into the hurt locker

Malware Month23 May 2024 | 4

RSA Conference 2024: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying

Kettle If there's one thing infosec needs right now, it's a little pick-me-up

Spotlight on RSA14 May 2024 | 3

Popular

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard

Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

Exclusive Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier

Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler

There's also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin

Updated Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles

AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours'

RSAC Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component

Spotlight on RSA13 May 2024 | 7

AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security

RSAC 'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out'

AI + ML13 May 2024 | 5

Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg

Interview As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs

Cyber-crime12 May 2024 | 43

Critical infrastructure security will stay poor until everyone pulls together

Interview Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks

Public Sector11 May 2024 | 12

Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst

Interview But China's the most technologically advanced

Spotlight on RSA10 May 2024 | 8

'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command

RSAC 'This was a no sh*tter'

Spotlight on RSA10 May 2024 | 4

Ex-White House election threat hunter weighs in on what to expect in November

Interview Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI

Public Sector09 May 2024 | 36

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web

IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit

Cyber-crime09 May 2024 | 35

America's enemies targeting US critical infrastructure should be 'wake-up call'

RSAC Having China, Russia, and Iran routinely rummaging around is cause for concern, says ex-NSA man

Spotlight on RSA09 May 2024 | 8

68 tech names sign CISA's secure-by-design pledge

RSAC Security's an uphill battle ... does this latest move have teeth?

Spotlight on RSA09 May 2024 | 14

VMware security advisories now behind bureaucratic Broadcom barricade

Updated If it ain't broke, make it less accessible

Spotlight on RSA09 May 2024 | 16

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets

Interview It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us

Networks08 May 2024 | 36

CISA boss: Secure code is the 'only way to make ransomware a shocking anomaly'

RSAC And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too

Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 | 58

One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800K people

Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool

Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 | 2

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack

China vehemently denies involvement

Cyber-crime08 May 2024 | 50

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

Interview On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Malware Month08 May 2024 | 24

From infosec to skunks, RSA Conference SVP spills the tea

Interview Keynotes, physical security, playlists … the buck stops with Linda Gray Martin

Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 |

UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection

Interview 'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA'

Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 | 25

America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss

RSAC Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc

Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 25

Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections

Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision

Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 34

CISA's early-warning system helped critical orgs close 852 ransomware holes

Interview In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe

Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 3

US State Department launches cyber and digital policy strategy

RSAC Part of the race with Beijing to set standards and advance norms

Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 4

Ransomware crooks now SIM swap executives' kids to pressure their parents

RSAC Extortionists turning to 'psychological attacks', Mandiant CTO says

Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 20

Fed-run LockBit site back from the dead and vows to really spill the beans on gang

Updated After very boring first reveal, this could be the real deal

Spotlight on RSA06 May 2024 | 8

UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine'

Updated Congress to hear how Citrix MFA snafu led to massive data theft, $870M+ loss

Malware Month30 Apr 2024 | 28

Russia's Cozy Bear dives into cloud environments with a new bag of tricks

Kremlin's spies tried out the TTPs on Microsoft, and now they're off to the races

Spotlight on Databases27 Feb 2024 | 4

Work to resolve binary babble from Voyager 1 is ongoing

You think your latency is bad? How about 45 hours to see if a command worked?

The Reg in Space08 Feb 2024 | 34

You could have heard a pin drop: Virgin Galactic reports itself to the FAA

Updated Everything's fine, but a fastening fell off when it shouldn't have

The Reg in Space06 Feb 2024 | 28

40 years ago, an astronaut first took flight from the Space Shuttle

Look Ma: no tether!

The Reg in Space05 Feb 2024 | 9

Rocket Lab is a David among Goliaths in the space race

Interview CEO Peter Beck on the future of commercial launches and not raining debris over national reserves

The Reg in Space05 Feb 2024 | 13

Space exploitation vs space exploration: Humanity has much to learn from the Voyager probes

Interview When 'what's the value to the economy?' wasn't front of mind

The Reg in Space01 Feb 2024 | 57

Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light

SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars

The Reg in Space30 Jan 2024 | 5

Japan's lander wakes up, takes blurry snap of Moon

~~Winter~~ Night is coming

The Reg in Space29 Jan 2024 | 15

Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices

Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security'

Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 11

SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack

Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors

Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 9

Bug bounty hunters load up to stalk AI and fancy bagging big bucks

Google offers AI-specific rewards, HackerOne sees more specializations

Cybersecurity Month27 Oct 2023 | 1

Telcos should compensate phished subscribers, suggests Singapore

Regulator reckons letting scam texts through is a culpable act

Cybersecurity Month26 Oct 2023 | 6

Seiko watches 60K personal data records tick away in BlackCat ransomware heist

Investigations ongoing as full extent of July breach is questioned

Cybersecurity Month25 Oct 2023 |

Spanish phisherfolk caught in cops' net in multi-million-euro catch

Crooks swindled about €3 million from victims

Cybersecurity Month25 Oct 2023 | 1

After six days and thousands of pwned users, Cisco poised to patch IOS XE flaw

Security in brief ALSO: SolarWinds using plaintext passwords; North Korea attacks TeamCity; Critical vulns, and more

Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2023 | 3

International Criminal Court blames spies for 'targeted and sophisticated attack'

Tell us it's Russia without telling us it's Russia

Cybersecurity Month21 Oct 2023 | 13

Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token

Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2023 | 38

‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence

Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 51

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests

Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 30

Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app

Incidentally, Windows 11 has native rar support now

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22

Critical Citrix bug exploited by data thieves weeks before being patched

Updated Time to close those active sessions

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 |

Governments resent their dependence on Big Tech

Singapore summit hears how private sector's constant security sins create risk for sovereigns

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22

Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels

Spies come in from the cold for their first public chinwag

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 31

Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough

Researchers say ransomware could be on the horizon if success continues

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 2

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

Annual fee won't be profitable, will require registration of phone number

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 69

Cisco's critical zero-day bug gets even worse – 'thousands' of IOS XE devices pwned

Good news: There's a free scanner to check your kit. Bad news: Still no fix

Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2023 | 15

Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited

We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 12

Signal shoots down zero-day rumors, finds 'no evidence' of device takeover

Looks to be related to critical libwebp bug found — and fixed — last month

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 5

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 18

EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states

What could possibly go wrong?

Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge

Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 82

Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach

Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more

Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 11

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety

Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38

Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms

Turns out secrecy doesn't breed security

Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 26

Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data

House always wins, er, wait ...

Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 13

Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole

Meanwhile, Exchange Online is on the fritz

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 13

CISOs' salary growth slows – with pay gap widening

We still doubt any infosec leaders will be going without heating this winter

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 2

From chaos to cadence: Celebrating two decades of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

Feature IT folks look back on 20 years of what is now infosec tradition

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 17

Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software

PhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 15

Vietnam accused of Predator spyware attack on EU and US politicians

Awkward, seeing as the US and Vietnam just announced a refreshed relationship

Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2023 | 1

FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year

Internet considered harmful

Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2023 | 68

Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration

Analysis The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions

Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 17

China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears

Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle

Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 12

Improving defense of US space assets isn't rocket science. Oh wait

Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years?

Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 4

Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei

Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel

Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2

FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today

Updated Americans are used to drills :(

Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 62

North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware

LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways

Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 4

Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator

Putin Zuck out of business is one goal of this repeat effort to close off internet tunnels

Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 39

Arm patches GPU driver bug exploited by spyware to snoop on targets

As Qualcomm warns of similar fixes coming for its chips

Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 5

Microsoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware

Just because you're paranoid…

Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 8

Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses

CYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools

Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 |

US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors

Updated End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting

Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 9

Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends in alert to industry

Better late than never, we guess

Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 6

Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers

Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results

Cybersecurity Month26 Sep 2023 | 21

Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist

Cloud provider blamed for loss of 20% of exchange's capital

Cybersecurity Month25 Sep 2023 | 37

The Register icon Biting the hand that feeds IT

About Us

Our Websites

Your Privacy

Situation Publishing

Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024