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Article: Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries - published 12 days ago. Content: A single npm user on Thursday published 14 malicious packages within a four-hour window, all mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DevOps, and environment-configuration libraries, according to Microsoft. It’s the latest in a seemingly never-ending string of supply chain attacks targeting developer tools, and stealing cloud credentials and CI/CD pipel... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/29/14-malicious-npm-packages-impersonated-opensearch-elasticsearch-libraries/5248792 Published: 2026 05 29 21:46:34 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:12 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen - published 9 days ago. Content: The British government wants stronger protection for subsea internet cables following a surge in Russian activity near UK waters, but its latest proposals lean heavily on fines and prison sentences rather than direct defensive action. Plans - outlined in a speech by Baroness Liz Lloyd, Minister for Digital Economy ahead of a consultation - include tougher p... https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/01/putin-sends-submarines-to-survey-britains-subsea-cables-uk-deploys-royal-navy-mobilizes-parliamentary-draftsmen/5248978 Published: 2026 06 01 10:48:11 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:12 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks - published 9 days ago. Content: Password manager Dashlane has disabled a number of user accounts as a precaution amid a spate of brute force attacks. It didn't specify the scale of the attack, although scores of users have queried the reason for receiving emails informing them of account suspensions. “Your account has been temporarily suspended for security reasons as someone has attempte... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/password-manager-dashlane-suspends-customer-accounts-amid-brute-force-attacks/5248991 Published: 2026 06 01 11:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:11 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation - published 9 days ago. Content: Palo Alto customers are being been told to patch yet another internet-facing security flaw after researchers caught attackers bypassing GlobalProtect authentication and gaining unauthorized VPN access. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, affects PAN-OS deployments using GlobalProtect authentication override cookies under specific configurations. Palo Alto d... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/01/palo-alto-vpn-bug-graduates-from-advisory-to-active-exploitation/5249114 Published: 2026 06 01 12:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:10 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying - published 9 days ago. Content: Grand Theft Auto cheat users have discovered that even the people selling ways around the rules struggle to follow some basic security ones. According to breach notification site Have I Been Pwned, the operators of Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike 2, suffered a data breach in May that exposed information belonging to ten... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/gta-cheat-service-atlas-menu-hacked-as-attacker-alleges-screenshot-spying/5249192 Published: 2026 06 01 14:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:10 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Election interlopers register 5K+ domains, hope to catch some voting phish - published 9 days ago. Content: The biggest threat to America’s midterm elections in November likely isn’t foreign attackers hacking US voting machines. Phishing and election-official impersonation are the bigger risks, according to Check Point, which documented more than 5,000 election-themed domains registered between April and May. These domains can be used by attackers for phishing, i... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/5k-election-domains-registered-ahead-of-us-midterms/5249764 Published: 2026 06 01 19:46:47 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:10 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Shai-Hulud malware worms Red Hat npm package versions downloaded 80K times a week - published 9 days ago. Content: Security researchers on Monday found dozens of Red Hat npm package releases infected with the Mini Shai-Hulud worm that TeamPCP cybercriminals recently open-sourced. The new supply chain attack hit at least 32 npm package releases published under the Red Hat Cloud Services namespace, according to security researchers from Google-owned Wiz, who traced the ma... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/shai-hulud-malware-infects-red-hat-npm-packages-downloaded-80k-times-weekly/5249803 Published: 2026 06 01 21:54:07 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:09 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers - published 8 days ago. Content: The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is warning the public to be wary of scammers spoofing its switchboard number in an attempt to profit by calling marks from a "trustworthy" number. A member of the public reported an attempted scam on Monday afternoon. A phone call came in from what appeared to be the PSNI’s switchboard number, and the caller pre... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/02/northern-ireland-cops-issue-psa-after-official-phone-number-spoofed-by-scammers/5249999 Published: 2026 06 02 10:46:12 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:09 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage - published 8 days ago. Content: Updated Claude has gone offline on the day after its maker Anthropic filed for what is expected to be a blockbuster IPO. The popular chatbot and coding tool suffered an outage from around 0600 UTC on Tuesday, with Anthropic saying the team was investigating the issue. By 1042 UTC, the status page said a fix had been implemented and the technical team was mo... https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/claude-celebrates-anthropics-stock-market-float-with-blockbuster-outage/5250071 Published: 2026 06 02 11:54:08 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:09 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher - published 8 days ago. Content: Microsoft has moved to calm an increasingly noisy backlash from the security community after appearing to threaten legal action against a researcher who spent the past several weeks dumping Windows zero-days onto the internet. In a statement published on Monday, Redmond said it has "no intention to pursue action against individuals conducting or publishing ... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/02/microsoft-reaches-for-olive-branch-after-public-dustup-with-0-day-researcher/5249945 Published: 2026 06 02 12:37:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:08 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices - published 8 days ago. Content: Russia's domestic spy agency says it has uncovered a sprawling foreign espionage operation that allegedly turned the smartphones of senior Russian officials into pocket-sized surveillance devices, though it has so far offered little in the way of evidence. In a statement Tuesday, the Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed foreign intelligence agencies impla... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/02/russian-spy-agency-says-foreign-spies-turned-officials-smartphones-into-surveillance-devices/5250099 Published: 2026 06 02 14:45:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:08 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered - published 8 days ago. Content: Bug hunting has become a whole lot more exciting in recent months with both Anthropic and OpenAI touting their latest models (that also happen to be super-scary exploit machines). On Tuesday, as Anthropic announced a fourfold expansion to its Mythos preview program, Cisco jumped into the fray, praising the transformative power of AI - but without disclosing... https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/cisco-praises-ai-bug-hunt-wont-reveal-flaw-tally/5250291 Published: 2026 06 02 18:35:24 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:08 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: 'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club' - published 8 days ago. Content: Even ransomware cartels make mistakes, and in this case, it was a biggie that could have landed the responsible crim in a Russian gulag: accidentally infecting a company located in a Commonwealth of Independent States country. In what threat-hunter Dominic Alvieri deemed the ransom “dumbass of the day,” Nova, the affiliate program for ransomware crew RAlord... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/02/dumbass-criminal-breaks-the-first-rule-of-ransomware-club/5250380 Published: 2026 06 02 21:58:34 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:08 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion - published 7 days ago. Content: Updated: UK banks are set to receive access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber after being excluded from Anthropic’s latest expansion of Project Glasswing. Project Glasswing, and access to the Mythos Preview model, is geared toward ensuring critical infrastructure providers are prepared to handle the threat posed by advanced AI models, once they inevitably make thei... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/03/anthropic-ups-glasswing-partner-count-4x-uk-banks-snubbed/5250450 Published: 2026 06 03 11:04:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:07 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures - published 7 days ago. Content: UPDATED Yet another aggrieved bug hunter has leaked a vulnerability affecting a Microsoft product after becoming disillusioned with the way the company handles security reports. Ammar Askar dropped a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) flaw within just an hour of disclosing it to “an old contact” at the open source platform, ac... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/03/another-bug-hunter-leaks-microsoft-exploits-in-defiance-of-companys-handling-of-vulnerability-disclosures/5250590 Published: 2026 06 03 14:30:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:07 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech - published 7 days ago. Content: Wireless jamming attacks are on the rise. Rice University researchers have shown how self-curving radio beams can make a jammer appear to be somewhere it isn't, potentially undermining some anti-jamming defenses. Jamming relies on flooding a wireless receiver with noise that denies service. Some modern receivers identify and block jamming attempts using dir... https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/03/curving-beams-could-fool-anti-jamming-tech/5250872 Published: 2026 06 03 20:57:39 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:07 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state - published 7 days ago. Content: AI-enabled cybercriminals have better tools and are inflicting more pain on their victims, wiping out virtual machines and hypervisors and leaving infrastructure in a "dark, dead" state after an attack, said Commvault Chief Technology Officer Brian Brockway. "The majority of cyber cases that we've seen in the customer base have moved well beyond the breakin... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/03/commvault-says-its-time-to-rethink-resiliency-as-ai-crooks-leave-victims-in-a-dark-dead-state/5250894 Published: 2026 06 03 22:31:29 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:06 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields - published 7 days ago. Content: PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we talk about weak security policies and how to avoid them. Hopefully, we can learn from others’ mistakes – or at least have a good laugh at them. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. This week, we hav... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/04/all-the-passwords-were-stored-in-active-directory-description-fields/5250820 Published: 2026 06 04 05:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:06 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine - published 7 days ago. Content: There's a lot of fear surrounding the bug-finding capabilities of super-advanced AI models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT 5.5-Cyber. But attackers are already using free, publicly available LLMs to hijack networks and worm through software supply chains at a much lower cost – to them at least. The latest example comes from University of Toronto re... https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/04/free-ai-model-powers-self-spreading-worm-in-enterprise-test-network/5250918 Published: 2026 06 04 07:09:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:06 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k - published 6 days ago. Content: Two former RAC workers in the UK have three months to pay more than £118,000 ($158,500) collectively after being convicted of selling crash victims’ data, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Debbie Okparavero and Maliha Islam, of Salford and Manchester respectively, were sentenced to six-month prison stints, suspended for 18 months, an... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/04/duo-who-sold-car-crash-victims-data-must-repay-118k/5251075 Published: 2026 06 04 11:13:05 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:05 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets - published 6 days ago. Content: MI5 and its international allies are once again warning that China is shopping for state secret leakers on popular recruitment platforms, including LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork. In a fresh advisory published on Wednesday evening, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence agency said China is using an increasing number of platforms to recruit those who have acc... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/04/five-eyes-china-expanding-state-secret-recruitment-campaign/5250978 Published: 2026 06 04 11:57:22 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:05 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds - published 6 days ago. Content: The next threat your server faces may have been helped along by a bot. OpenAI's Codex agent helped uncover a remote denial-of-service (DoS) exploit that can be launched from a single machine to render vulnerable web servers inaccessible in seconds, according to Calif security researchers. The attack works on default HTTP/2 configurations of major web server... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/04/openais-codex-chains-decade-old-dos-techniques-into-http/2-bomb/5251377 Published: 2026 06 04 19:08:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:05 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds - published 6 days ago. Content: UPDATED A new extortion brand called Pink – which may be a rebrand of BlackFile – uses voice phishing and fake help-desk calls to gain initial access to organizations’ IT environments, steal their sensitive data, and threaten to leak it unless the victims pay a ransom demand. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 first spotted the gang, which it tracks as cluster CL-... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/04/pink-is-the-latest-goon-squad-to-use-fake-helpdesk-calls-to-steal-creds/5251434 Published: 2026 06 04 22:16:55 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:05 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder - published 6 days ago. Content: A City of York Council email mishap exposed the email addresses of hundreds of Blue Badge holders in the ancient Viking capital, inadvertently revealing their status as disabled residents and triggering a data breach investigation. The council confirmed to The Register that it’s investigating what it described as a "personal data breach" after emails sent t... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/council-in-uks-city-of-york-outs-hundreds-of-disabled-residents-with-a-single-email-blunder/5251214 Published: 2026 06 05 10:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:04 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families - published 5 days ago. Content: Humanitarian organization World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its systems was breached, and around 600,000 Gazan households receiving aid had their details improperly accessed. Its announcement, made via Telegram on May 31, confirmed there was “a security incident” in the self-registration application used by Gazans to register for aid and applicants’ na... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families/5251605 Published: 2026 06 05 13:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:04 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight - published 5 days ago. Content: The threat is real. Unknown miscreants are exploiting a high-severity, zero-day bug in Cisco’s SD-WAN management software, and the networking giant hasn’t said when it will patch the flaw. Cisco issued an advisory on Thursday for the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, and it sounds like attackers have been exploiting this secu... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/yet-another-cisco-sd-wan-0-day-under-attack-and-no-patch-in-sight/5251855 Published: 2026 06 05 17:27:42 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:04 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks - published 5 days ago. Content: If they don't get you online, they'll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident r... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/05/if-you-dont-fall-for-these-extortionists-calls-theyll-show-up-with-usb-sticks/5251891 Published: 2026 06 05 21:18:42 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:04 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach - published 5 days ago. Content: Oxford University students seeking work will be dismayed to learn that crooks have breached a second external platform provider for the university in as many months. The institution’s CareerConnect platform, provided by Group GTI, was the target of the intrusion, which exposed users’ full names and email addresses. Those who don’t use single sign-on (SSO) h... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/06/oxford-university-data-pwned-again-by-career-platform-breach/5251754 Published: 2026 06 06 07:28:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:03 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting - published 2 days ago. Content: Meta has asked a federal judge to hold Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in contempt of court after claiming it caught the surveillance vendor targeting WhatsApp users again despite a permanent injunction ordering it to stop. In a blog post on Monday, Meta said it had disrupted "NSO-linked social engineering attempts" after investigating reports from users. A... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/nso-group-back-in-metas-crosshairs-after-alleged-whatsapp-targeting/5252105 Published: 2026 06 08 12:10:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:03 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections - published 2 days ago. Content: Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm in the latest open source supply chain attack. The code shack took down 73 repos within the space of 105 seconds after its alarms were tripped on Friday, June 5, after detecting signs of the Miasma worm infecting its projects, according to StepSecurity’s co... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/github-nukes-70-microsoft-repos-amid-suspected-worm-attack/5252169 Published: 2026 06 08 13:56:50 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:03 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation - published 2 days ago. Content: An Illinois high school won't reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after suffering a ransomware attack on Sunday, June 7. Evanston Township High School (ETHS), located 14 miles north of Chicago, said it would be closed today and tomorrow, and that the closure also affected summer school, sports camps, and on-campus activities, which are all canceled. "Upo... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/08/ransomware-attack-shuts-illinois-high-school-until-wednesday/5252322 Published: 2026 06 08 15:46:52 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:03 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix - published 2 days ago. Content: Check Point released an emergency fix on Monday for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments - but attackers, including ransomware criminals, got a month-long head start. Attacks against the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-50751, began on May 7, according to Check Point VP of research Lotem Finkel... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/08/attackers-had-month-long-head-start-on-patched-check-point-vpn-zero-day/5252438 Published: 2026 06 08 17:10:31 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:02 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto - published 2 days ago. Content: There's another likely North Korean-linked scam hitting developers and their employers, while snarfing up credentials and cryptocurrency - and this one doesn't even involve embedding IT workers at high-profile tech giants. A previously unseen phishing crew, suspected to have DPRK ties, sent more than 250 emails to people working in almost 100 organizations,... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/suspected-norks-send-250-fake-dev-job-pitches-to-steal-crypto/5252526 Published: 2026 06 08 22:13:20 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:02 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records - published 1 day ago. Content: The patient tally from the Synnovis ransomware attack continues to grow two years later, with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust confirming it was caught up in the breach. The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing. The disclosure follows a similar ... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/09/qilin-nhs-breach-tally-grows-as-essex-trust-confirms-stolen-records/5252663 Published: 2026 06 09 09:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:02 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack - published 1 day ago. Content: French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light on June 7 when France's National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) detected suspicious activity on Tchap, the government's homegrown messaging service used acr... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/france-probes-compromise-of-gov-messaging-platform-after-account-hijack/5252717 Published: 2026 06 09 11:27:55 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:02 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year - published 1 day ago. Content: Google has fixed its fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, and this one earned its finder a $55,000 bounty. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, is an out-of-bounds memory access bug in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Google confirmed that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, but has disclosed little beyond the bare technical details... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/chromes-zero-day-whac-a-mole-continues-with-fifth-exploited-bug-of-the-year/5252689 Published: 2026 06 09 12:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:01 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all' - published 1 day ago. Content: Signal insists that plans to compel tech companies to scan devices for nude images of children announced by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at London Tech Week "will not keep children safe." "It endangers us all," the encrypted messaging platform said, adding that the mechanism required to implement it would be "dangerous." And it wouldn't be a pro... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/signal-uks-child-nude-block-threat-wont-protect-children/5252761 Published: 2026 06 09 12:41:03 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:01 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech - published 21 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-going-through-a-trump-fueled-breakup-with-big-tech/ Published: 2026 05 21 06:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:01 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale - published 21 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/ Published: 2026 05 21 09:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:00 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: ‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says - published 20 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/creepy-listening-tool-for-targeted-ads-didnt-actually-work-ftc-says/ Published: 2026 05 21 21:35:52 Received: 2026 06 09 15:01:00 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers - published 19 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-fbi-license-plate-reader-real-time-access/ Published: 2026 05 23 10:30:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:00:59 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race - published 17 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race/ Published: 2026 05 25 10:30:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:00:59 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows - published 16 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/ Published: 2026 05 26 09:30:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:00:59 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout - published 15 days ago. Content: https://www.wired.com/story/internet-in-iran-starts-to-return-after-3-month-blackout/ Published: 2026 05 26 17:31:25 Received: 2026 06 09 15:00:58 Feed: Wired.com – Security Feed Source: Wired Category: News Topic: Cyber Security |
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