City of Osaka warns of data breach impacting 1 million as Japan reels from dozens of cyber incidents
Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, told its 2.8 million residents to be wary of suspicious emails purporting to come from the local government.
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Screen Connect Attacks Target at Least 288 Endpoints Across 48 Organizations With Rogue Clients
ConnectWise has taken the precautionary step of disabling five third-party extensions in partner environments following reports of unauthorized access. In an advisory posted on its site, the company said there is no evidence that the incident involves a...
Who Runs the Ransomware Group Qilin?
The cybercrime group Qilin has emerged as the world's most active ransomware affiliate program, claiming at least 365 victim organizations in the past three months alone. But even top Russian hackers make operational security mistakes, and the...
Finally, Payment by Bank Transfer Comes to Have I Been Pwned
This is simultaneously the most boring yet exciting blog title I've written in a long time. How you pay for services isn't exactly a sexy topic, but it solves a problem that's been a massive bugbear for a long time. Here's a
Weekly Update 529: Kids Social Media Bans (and Everything Else)
The kids-and-social-media discussion is just dumb. It's not the premise of delaying their access until 16, but the inability of those who should know better to grasp where the responsibility for enforcement lies. Here's our PM's explainer after the laws passed
Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?
Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian...
Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies
Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user's Internet connection out to strangers and conducts...
Weekly Update 528: Reading AI-generated Code & the Economics of Solar
By pure timing coincidence, the Proton CEO's AI @ Proton, Engineering Manifesto made headlines around the same time as this week's video. The guy's management style and choice of language have really rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way, and deservedly so, IMHO.
Siemens Mendix SAML Module
View CSAF Summary Mendix SAML module contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access by replaying a valid SAML assertion in IdP-initiated authentication flows. Siemens has...
Inside Key Drift: Analyzing historical UAT-11473 activity on Cisco SD-WAN
Talos has identified UAT-11473, a highly sophisticated APT, who exploited CVE-2026-20127, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst Controller instances to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to affected systems to...
Weekly Update 527: Cybergeddon News v. Reality
As the news from last week has settled down, it would seem this headline was pretty spot on. The foretold apocalypse didn't eventuate, and there were no internet-destroying outages. In fact, it took days before I could find a single story of PHP2Shell...
19th October – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 19th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES CenterPoint Energy, a US utility company serving Texas and several other states, has disclosed a data...
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran Shiny Hunters Extortion Site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion...
Weekly Update 526: Building HIBP AI/SI First
I have this sense that we've passed the point where "vibe coding" is a derogatory term. I have no empirical evidence for this; it's more a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted the inevitability and are just getting with the program.
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are...
Weekly Update 525: AI Data Breach Hyperbole
I remember the name of that AI doco now - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist . I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the other day, and what I found particularly engrossing was the polar-opposite opinions from a bunch of people: "it'
What to do when a data breach notice doesn't say much
Data breach notifications are telling victims less than ever. What the company leaves out can still shape what you do next.
Shiny Hunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the...
Weekly Update 524: Live From Copenhagen
I'm in Denmark! Well, just, I'm now at Copenhagen airport ready to begin the long trek home, with the final event at GOTO now done and going just perfectly. This week, there are two ShinyHunters arrests in the news: Pepijn in the Netherlands and then Saif
Weekly Update 523: Live From a Norwegian Fjord
How's that view?! With NDC Oslo now done, it's a little bit of sightseeing before heading to Denmark for GOTO in Copenhagen for Scott's and my "Cyber-broken" talk. In the meantime, this week is mostly about the ShinyHunters trajectory targeting both
Weekly Update 522: Live From Oslo with Scott Helme
Heads up: the first 7 mins is a bit quiet until we worked out the external mic was misbehaving - sorry! But get through that and have a listen to Scott's experiences with how Report URI is identifying malware-infected machines within orgs, all due to CSP...
Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality
I think what really resonates with me this week is being able to completely turn the tables on perceptions around things like AI being the big bad hacking tool the news would have you believe. There's the stat I talk about where it's had literally 0%
Risky Bulletin: Anthropic agents went hacking again
Anthropic agents went hacking again, South Korea increases its data breach fines, Apple notifies three Turkish ministers of mercenary spyware attacks, and CISA is ready to hire 250 staff. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Anthropic agents went hacking again
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition
I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bit more interesting. And on that note, the imagery it&
Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity
It does feel like I've bitten off too much and am now chewing like crazy this week. The 3D printing talk with Elle in Oslo, the "normal" NDC infosec talk, the cyber-broken talk with Scott in Copenhagen and then those ratbag hackers keep dumping more
A Cautionary Tale About Data Breach Claims, Verification and Carhartt
You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here: 🚨Cyber
Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with Uni Fi
I genuinely think I've nailed the IoT door lock situation! Well, Ubiquiti has, but I think I've worked out how to put it all into a residential house and have it make sense. There are a few basic tenets: Main power (never have to rely on
Welcoming the Sri Lankan Government to Have I Been Pwned
Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against the data in HIBP, helping identify exposed government accounts and respond...
Srsly Risky Biz: Data extortion is booming. Hooray!
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the cybercrime ecosystem shifting towards data theft extortion, stealing sensitive data and extracting ransoms from victims by threatening to leak it. For organisations whose reputation is very important to them, data...
Risky Bulletin: NSA Tailored Access Operations is back
The NSA’s Tailored Access Operations team is back, India bans an app used to hack e-rickshaws, Accenture has another data breach, and a leak exposes a suspected Chinese cyber contractor. The Risky Bulletin newsletter and podcast will be on an editorial...