Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff...
Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines The Royal Navy has conducted the first flight of a helicopter-sized autonomous drone that is...
A data breach involving Agricultural University of Athens was reported in January 2026. See incident details, impact on customers, and security measures.
A data breach involving Agricultural University of Athens was reported in January 2026. See incident details, impact on customers, and security measures.
A data breach involving Colis Privé was reported in January 2026. See incident details, impact on customers, and recommended security measures.
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 19th January, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Spanish energy company Endesa has disclosed a...
Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of “Who Me?”, The Register’s Monday column that shares your mistakes and celebrates your escapes.…
PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia's child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more! Asia In Brief Microsoft is hiring senior managers to ensure its...
We were engaging in some routine clustering on untagged or only-generically-tagged HTTP traffic when a fun pattern jumped out: thousands of requests hitting /wp-content/plugins/*/readme.txt. It...
PLUS: Navy spy sent to brig for 200 months in brig; Black Axe busted again; Bill aims to crimp ICE apps; and more Infosec In Brief PLUS: Google’s security outfit Mandiant last week released tools...
In December 2025, data from France's Pass'Sport program was posted to a popular hacking forum. Initially misattributed to CAF (the French family allowance fund), the data contained 6.5M unique...
Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. In addition, the...
OpenAI on Friday said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, as the artificial intelligence (AI) company...
Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due...
Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.
On 2026-01-17, a campaign was reported, involving an unknown actor, gaining initial access via Dangling resource,.
Unit 42 breaks down a payroll attack fueled by social engineering. Learn how the breach happened and how to protect your organization from similar threats. The post Anatomy of an Attack: The...
The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that's designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to...
Authorities linked the 40-year-old to multiple crimes by tracing the email address he used for a cybercrime forum to the same account he used to apply for a U.S. visa in 2016. The post Jordanian...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five new malicious Google Chrome web browser extensions that masquerade as human resources (HR) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms like...
Major setbacks for Black Axe and BreachForums, researchers expose new Copilot attack, and PluggyApe malware targets Ukraine's armed forces.
Are agentic browsers the new Flash? A 2025 review of new attacks, vendor security layers, and a roadmap for navigating AI browser risks.
Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch...
You lock your doors at night. You avoid sketchy phone calls. You’re careful about what you post on social media. But what about the information about you that’s already out there—without your...
German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware. Nefekov, 35, is accused of spearheading the Black Basta...
Security experts have disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted U.S. government and policy entities using politically themed lures to deliver a backdoor known as LOTUSLITE. The...
In his final annual address outlining his priorities, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is “brimming with conflict, impunity, inequality and unpredictability”...
Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for...
Senators are scrambling to find a way forward on key cryptocurrency legislation after the Senate Banking Committee postponed a highly anticipated markup following the loss of a major industry...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already...