UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary Senior officials have been summoned to the UK’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee after a previously secret 2023…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary Baltimore’s accounts payable department paid more than $1.5 million to a fraudster who impersonated a vendor employee and succeeded…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting: law enforcement takedowns of major operations (LockBit, BlackCat/AlphV, Hive) have scattered affiliates and fuelled a…
Summary Australian developer Click Studios has issued Passwordstate build 9972 to fix two security issues: a clickjacking vulnerability in its browser extension and a critical authentication bypass affecting the Emergency…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon reported it disrupted a watering-hole campaign run by Russia-linked APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that injected malicious…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services used by the…
Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots Summary White-hat researcher Bobdahacker discovered that Pudu Robotics, a major Chinese maker of service robots, had left…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing suggests the UK Home Office’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says its investigation found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update and the SSD/HDD failures and…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp patched a serious vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) in its iOS and Mac apps that was being exploited together with…
