Security News

US Navy sailor charged in horrific child sextortion case
2025-05-23 00:15

Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm The FBI has filed an affidavit detailing how it identified a US Navy man who was allegedly distributing child sex abuse...

Claude 4 benchmarks show improvements, but context is still 200K
2025-05-22 23:17

Today, OpenAI rival Anthropic announced Claude 4 models, which are significantly better than Claude 3 in benchmarks, but we're left disappointed with the same 200,000 context window limit. [...]

How lean security teams can build resilient defenses
2025-05-22 23:00

Improving security on a budget with continuous monitoring Partner content Most security teams face a staggering challenge. They're tasked with protecting themselves against the same advanced...

Feds finger Russian 'behind Qakbot malware' that hit 700K computers
2025-05-22 22:26

Agents thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again Uncle Sam on Thursday unsealed criminal charges and a civil forfeiture case against a Russian national accused of leading...

US indicts leader of Qakbot botnet linked to ransomware attacks
2025-05-22 20:16

The U.S. government has indicted Russian national Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, the leader of the Qakbot botnet malware operation that compromised over 700,000 computers and enabled ransomware...

Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos
2025-05-22 18:21

Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole A suspected Chinese crew has been exploiting a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Trimble Cityworks to break into US...

Hackers use fake Ledger apps to steal Mac users’ seed phrases
2025-05-22 16:45

Cybercriminal campaigns are using fake Ledger apps to target macOS users and their digital assets by deploying malware that attempts to steal seed phrases that protect access to digital...

Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts
2025-05-22 16:01

Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over The Irish Data Protection Commission has cleared the way for Meta to begin slurping up the data of European citizens...

Police arrests 270 dark web vendors, buyers in global crackdown
2025-05-22 15:42

Police arrested 270 suspects following an international law enforcement action codenamed 'Operation RapTor' that targeted dark web vendors and customers from ten countries. [...]

Unpatched Windows Server vulnerability allows full domain compromise
2025-05-22 15:34

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Server 2025 can be used by attackers to compromise any user in Active Directory (AD), including Domain Admins. “The [“BadSuccessor”] attack exploits...