International Sting Takes Down SIM Box Criminal Network Summary Law enforcement agencies across Europe dismantled a major SIM-box cyber-as-a-service operation that helped criminals create almost 50 million fake online accounts.…
ColdRiver Drops Fresh Malware on Targets Summary Russia-linked ColdRiver (aka UNC4057, Star Blizzard, Callisto) rapidly replaced its exposed LOSTKEYS platform with a new malware toolkit after Google’s GTIG published details.…
AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane Summary Amazon Web Services suffered a major incident in its US-EAST-1 region that cascaded across global services. The outage began with increased…
China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world’s biggest bit burglar Summary China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has publicly accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of…
Salesforce breach: What IT leaders must know Summary A sophisticated extortion group known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters targeted organisations that use Salesforce by tricking employees into authorising malicious OAuth integrations…
Japanese retailer Askul halts online orders, shipments after ransomware attack Summary Tokyo-based Askul suspended online orders, new user registrations and product shipments after a ransomware attack over the weekend crippled…
Judge bars NSO from targeting WhatsApp users with spyware, reduces damages in landmark case Summary A federal judge in the Northern District of California has issued an injunction preventing NSO…
Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode Summary Microsoft has confirmed a bug introduced by security update KB5066835 (released 14 October) that prevents USB mice and…
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work? Summary Anthropic says it worked with the US Department of Energy and the National…
Why we still don’t understand the Universe — even after a century of dispute Summary Helge Kragh reviews Jim Baggott’s new book, Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant,…
