More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches security If you're waiting for a sign to upgrade to a fixed version: this is it Cyber-crime11 Sep 2026 | 1
AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle cyber-crime Phone shop staffer claimed he was paid less than $4,000 for attacks leading to combined intended losses of $600,000 Cyber-crime11 Sep 2026 | 3
Ukrainian lawyer's second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars CYBER-CRIME Swapping legal work for malware development ended in extradition and a guilty plea Cyber-crime11 Sep 2026 | 7
Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script security Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel! Cyber-crime10 Sep 2026 | 6
Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree cyber-crime Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups Cyber-crime10 Sep 2026 | 6
Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist cyber-crime Stolen funds bought mansions, private jets, and supercars – now he faces up to 20 years Cyber-crime09 Sep 2026 | 16
Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years cyber-crime Researcher believes overprivileged Iterable creds exposed 8.8M customer records – and could have enabled mass deletion Cyber-crime09 Sep 2026 | 16
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk security Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters Cyber-crime04 Sep 2026 | 19
Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes cyber-crime Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds Cyber-crime03 Sep 2026 | 1
Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes cyber-crime 23-year-old botnet down Cyber-crime01 Sep 2026 | 4
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans security Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit Cyber-crime01 Sep 2026 |
The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft cyber-crime Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped Cyber-crime01 Sep 2026 | 1
Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records Security McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M Cyber-crime31 Aug 2026 | 9
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled CYBER-CRIME It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background' Cyber-crime27 Aug 2026 | 3
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks Security 'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack' Cyber-crime26 Aug 2026 | 34
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack Security No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing Cyber-crime26 Aug 2026 | 4
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant Security No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg Cyber-crime24 Aug 2026 | 30
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach cyber-crime Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got Cyber-crime24 Aug 2026 | 1
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack cyber-crime Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in Cyber-crime24 Aug 2026 | 5
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it PATCHES Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf Cyber-crime21 Aug 2026 | 2
EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock Security Manufacturers must now disclose actively exploited flaws and severe security incidents through ENISA's new reporting platform
DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean AI and ML DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it
More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches security If you're waiting for a sign to upgrade to a fixed version: this is it
Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language devops Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows
Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution DATABASES Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor
Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script security Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm OFFBEAT Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades
Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment ON-PREM Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line DEVOPS Shopify acquisition will give open-source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand SYSTEMS Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree
SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in cybercrime Toronto org says it wasn’t the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability Cyber-crime21 Aug 2026 | 1
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials SECURITY Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware Cyber-crime21 Aug 2026 | 23
$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts cyber-crime Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication Cyber-crime21 Aug 2026 | 1
Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw CYBER-CRIME Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed Cyber-crime21 Aug 2026 | 17
Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists CYBER-CRIME Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with Cyber-crime20 Aug 2026 | 9
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator cyber-crime Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties Cyber-crime19 Aug 2026 | 1
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants SECURITY McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials Cyber-crime17 Aug 2026 | 8
1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack CYBER-CRIME Another one bites the dust Cyber-crime14 Aug 2026 | 10
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals CYBER-CRIME Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender Cyber-crime13 Aug 2026 | 4
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows CYBER-CRIME Exploit Wednesday's back, baby Cyber-crime12 Aug 2026 | 52
Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes cyber-crime Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act Cyber-crime12 Aug 2026 | 33
Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure security Newly minted RaaS crew breaks in through using internet-facing kit via known Fortinet flaws, then steals and scrambles data Cyber-crime11 Aug 2026 | 3
Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands cyber-crime Valve, Bol, ING, Ajax, and others affected as pwnage disrupts eight European warehouses Cyber-crime11 Aug 2026 | 2
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks Security Calling all defenders Cyber-crime07 Aug 2026 | 98
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses CYBER-CRIME Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’ Cyber-crime07 Aug 2026 | 24
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk security Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped Cyber-crime07 Aug 2026 | 3
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now security A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA Cyber-crime05 Aug 2026 | 7
Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education Databases03 Aug 2026 | 14
AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks security CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours Cyber-crime03 Aug 2026 | 2
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data CYBER-CRIME History suggests this was not wise Cyber-crime31 Jul 2026 | 24
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in cyber-crime APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft Cyber-crime31 Jul 2026 | 9
Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew cyber-crime Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts Cyber-crime30 Jul 2026 | 2
Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com Security Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda) Cyber-crime24 Jul 2026 | 8
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief security Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain Cyber-crime20 Jul 2026 | 6
Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents CYBER-CRIME Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged Cyber-crime20 Jul 2026 | 6
Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online cyber-crime HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details Cyber-crime20 Jul 2026 | 2
Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz CYBER-CRIME No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place Cyber-crime17 Jul 2026 | 16
C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest cyber-crime Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering Cyber-crime16 Jul 2026 | 27
Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack cyber-crime Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history Cyber-crime16 Jul 2026 | 31
Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas cyber-crime It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules Cyber-crime16 Jul 2026 | 19
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks CYBER-CRIME ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option Cyber-crime13 Jul 2026 | 11
An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals cyber-crime Leaked negotiations spill the tea Cyber-crime09 Jul 2026 | 15
Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul security Consulting giant says it has 'remediated ... source' after crook claims to offer source code, keys, and cloud creds for sale Cyber-crime09 Jul 2026 | 6
Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers Security Proofpoint researcher tells The Reg: 'We estimate the total volume of targets would be a few dozen' Cyber-crime08 Jul 2026 | 8
Microsoft Global Device Identifier fingers Scattered Spider suspect cyber-crime Along with other telemetry, Windows GDID makes online activity more traceable Cyber-crime07 Jul 2026 | 36
CAI cloud worm gives competitors' malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin security Dog-eat-dog world for credential-stealing attackers Cyber-crime07 Jul 2026 | 1
Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker SECURITY Greek lawsuit comes as rights campaigners lobby the EU to take firmer stance on spyware abuses Cyber-crime07 Jul 2026 |
Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker SECURITY Greek lawsuit comes as rights campaigners lobby the EU to take firmer stance on spyware abuses Cyber-crime07 Jul 2026 |
Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware Cybercrime Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan Cyber-crime07 Jul 2026 | 4
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage Security Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience. Cyber-crime05 Jul 2026 | 70
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway Cybercrime Left hand, meet right hand Cyber-crime02 Jul 2026 | 36
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released cyber-crime Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch Cyber-crime02 Jul 2026 | 3
EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought cyber-crime It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says Cyber-crime01 Jul 2026 | 8
Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo Security At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack Cyber-crime29 Jun 2026 | 16
Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds security Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations Cyber-crime26 Jun 2026 | 8
Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues Cyber-Crime Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security Cyber-crime25 Jun 2026 | 8
Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit security 200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down Cyber-crime24 Jun 2026 |
You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials Cyber-Crime Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate Cyber-crime24 Jun 2026 | 2
Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims Security As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations Cyber-crime22 Jun 2026 | 5
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert security Severe weather event alert platform buzzed devices across the country with the word 'misanthropy' Cyber-crime22 Jun 2026 | 6
Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific cyber-crime Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions Cyber-crime18 Jun 2026 | 9
Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls CYBER-CRIME Why are you even reading this?! Rotate your passwords!! Cyber-crime17 Jun 2026 | 30
Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory Security Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though Cyber-crime17 Jun 2026 | 2
Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real Cyber-crime 15-year-old among six arrested after Dutch cops target suspected bank fraud call center Cyber-crime17 Jun 2026 | 2
Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground CYBER-CRIME Bitter harvest for Australia's Mackay Sugar, attacked in peak cane crushing season Cyber-crime17 Jun 2026 | 7
Three critical Fortinet sandbox bugs splattered by unknown attackers Security All have patches, so make sure you upgrade to a fixed version Cyber-crime16 Jun 2026 |
Crooks found a new way to collaborate using Teams – by hiding command-and-control traffic Cyber-crime Custom malware routed communications through legitimate Microsoft services, making malicious activity look like routine corporate collaboration Cyber-crime16 Jun 2026 | 5
Cardiac monitor maker's security skips a beat as data thieves go for the jugular CYBER-CRIME Attackers used social engineering to access third-party business apps and steal patient information Cyber-crime16 Jun 2026 |
Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators cyber-crime More reasons to love social media and AI Cyber-crime16 Jun 2026 | 7
Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist CYBER-CRIME Joins the ranks of Nottingham Uni and 100 other unnamed victims Cyber-crime15 Jun 2026 | 1
ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day Security University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg Cyber-crime11 Jun 2026 | 2
Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day CYBER-CRIMe Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection Cyber-crime11 Jun 2026 | 24
Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack cyber-crime Crooks claim 40 GB haul as breach database pegs number of exposed email addresses at 455K Cyber-crime11 Jun 2026 | 12
Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source cyber-crime As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about Cyber-crime09 Jun 2026 |
Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records cyber-crime Two years on from ransomware attack, hospitals are still trying to identify and warn patients Cyber-crime09 Jun 2026 | 1
Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix cyber-crime Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7 Cyber-crime08 Jun 2026 | 2
Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation Cyber-crime Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack Cyber-crime08 Jun 2026 | 5
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks cyber-crime When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider Cyber-crime05 Jun 2026 | 18
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds CYBER-CRIME A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$ Cyber-crime04 Jun 2026 | 1
Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k cyber-crime Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act Cyber-crime04 Jun 2026 | 30
'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club' cyber-crime You don't infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries Cyber-crime02 Jun 2026 | 15
Election interlopers register 5K+ domains, hope to catch some voting phish Security Hacking voting machines is so 2017. Phishing, impersonation pose the real election risks Cyber-crime01 Jun 2026 | 4
Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation Cyber-crime Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users Cyber-crime01 Jun 2026 | 6
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak Cyber-Crime Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there Cyber-crime29 May 2026 | 1
Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach Cyber-Crime Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year Cyber-crime28 May 2026 | 7
Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token cyber-crime Script kiddies these days Cyber-crime27 May 2026 | 5
CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet cyber-crime Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days Cyber-crime27 May 2026 | 5
MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay cyber-crime Guess they could deny the alleged intrusion … like the 2020 election results Cyber-crime26 May 2026 | 26
A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets Security Hey, Gemini, how much can we earn from one pump-and-dump cycle? Cyber-crime22 May 2026 | 44
FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale Cyber-Crime MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M365 Cyber-crime22 May 2026 | 7