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Today β€” February 1st 2026The Register - Security

AI security startup CEO posts a job. Deepfake candidate applies, inner turmoil ensues.

'I did not think it was going to happen to me, but here we are'

Nearly every company, from tech giants like Amazon to small startups, has first-hand experience with fake IT workers applying for jobs - and sometimes even being hired. …

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January blues return as Ivanti coughs up exploited EPMM zero-days

Consider yourselves compromised, experts warn

Ivanti has patched two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) product that are already being exploited, continuing a grim run of January security incidents for enterprise IT vendors.…

Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach

Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits

Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states.…

Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves

Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…

Maybe CISA should take its own advice about insider threats hmmm?

The call is coming from inside the house

opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.…

To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide

The Chocolate Factory strikes again, targeting the infrastructure attackers use to stay anonymous

Crims love to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses, and they do so by using residential proxy networks. Now, Google says it has "significantly degraded" what it believes is one of the world's largest residential proxy networks.…

AV vendor goes to war with security shop over update server scare

eScan lawyers up after Morphisec claimed 'critical supply-chain compromise'

A spat has erupted between antivirus vendor eScan and threat intelligence outfit Morphisec over who spotted an update server incident that disrupted some eScan customers earlier this month.…

Seven habits that help security teams reduce risk without slowing delivery

The right habits change everything

Sponsored Post Security teams are under pressure from every direction: supply chain threats are rising, regulatory expectations are tightening, and development cycles aren’t getting any slower. Yet for many organizations, the practical work of improving software security still comes down to the same challenge β€” how do you reduce exposure without constantly battling developers, delaying releases, or piling on process?

That’s where a more consistent set of habits can make a measurable difference.
Rather than treating software supply chain security as a one-off initiative, many teams are shifting toward repeatable practices they can build into everyday workflows. The goal isn’t perfection; it’s improving baseline security in ways that actually stick, across teams and tool chains.

Chainguard is hosting an upcoming webinar-style event designed to help security and engineering leaders identify the habits that matter most. The session exploresΒ seven practical approachesΒ for building more secure software pipelines, with a focus on reducing risk while keeping delivery moving.…

ShinyHunters swipes right on 10M records in alleged dating app data grab

Extortion crew says it's found love in someone else's info as Match Group plays down the impact

ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world's most widely used swipe-based dating platforms.…

Patch or perish: Vulnerability exploits now dominate intrusions

Apply fixes within a few hours or face the music, say the pros

What good is a fix if you don't use it? Experts are urging security teams to patch promptly as vulnerability exploits now account for the majority of intrusions, according to the latest figures.…

Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold

Close call after an apparently deliberate attempt to starve a country of energy at the worst time

Cybersecurity experts involved in the cleanup of the cyberattacks on Poland's power network say the consequences could have been lethal.…

Ransomware crims forced to take off-RAMP as FBI seizes forum

Cybercrime solved. The end

Ransomware crims have just lost one of their best business platforms. US law enforcement has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum's dark web and clearnet domains.…

Everybody is WinRAR phishing, dropping RATs as fast as lightning

Russians, Chinese spies, run-of-the-mill crims …

Come one, come all. Everyone from Russian and Chinese government goons to financially motivated miscreants is exploiting a long-since-patched WinRAR vuln to bring you infostealers and Remote Access Trojans (RATs).…

Fortinet unearths another critical bug as SSO accounts borked post-patch

More work for admins on the cards as they await a full dump of fixes

Things aren't over yet for Fortinet customers – the security shop has disclosed yet another critical FortiCloud SSO vulnerability.…

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses

Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature

Microsoft patched a bevy of bugs that allowed bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection before the feature was made available earlier this month.…

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust

Users of Meta's WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature that combines multiple security settings under a single, toggleable option. …

Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim

Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO

ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that's just the yeast of everyone's problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmunds, in addition to three other organizations it posted to its blog last week.…

China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers' aides – for years

Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk

Chinese state-linked hackers are accused of spending years inside the phones of senior Downing Street officials, exposing private communications at the heart of the UK government.…

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

French govt says state-run service 'Visio'Β will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before?

France has officially told Zoom, Teams, and the rest of the US videoconferencing herd to take a hike in favor of its own homegrown app.…

Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds

Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case

Updated Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil's devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB).…

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep

Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law

The High Court will hear from privacy campaigners this week who want to reshape the way the Metropolitan Police is allowed to use live facial recognition (LFR) tech.…

Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch

Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes.

Updated Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in real world attacks.…

Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign

Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets

ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself.…

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool

The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including sexualized images of children.…

Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB

US sports brand launches probe after extortion crew WorldLeaks claims it stole huge dataset

Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and posted samples on its leak site.…

Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland’s power grid, experts say

Cyber sleuths believe Sandworm up to its old tricks with a brand-new sabotage toy

Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland's power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim.…

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit

Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea

Britain's Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud edge infrastructure to operate AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.…

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card

Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification

The UK government has revealed some thinking about digital identity in response to written questions from MPs, while continuing to say next to nothing about the scheme's cost.…

Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 uncovers 76 zero-days, pays out more than $1M

Also, cybercriminals get breached, Gemini spills the calendar beans, and more

infosec in brief T'was a dark few days for automotive software systems last week, as the third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition uncovered 76 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in targets ranging from Tesla infotainment to EV chargers.…

UK border tech budget swells by Β£100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings

Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels

The UK Home Office is spending up to Β£100 million on intelligence tech in part to tackle the so-called "small boats" issue of refugees and irregular immigrants coming across the English Channel.…

Feds totally skipping infosec industry's biggest conference this year

But ex-CISA boss and new RSAC CEO Jen Easterly will be there

updated The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won't attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register. Sessions involving speakers from the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) have also disappeared from the agenda.…

Patch or die: VMware vCenter Server bug fixed in 2024 under attack today

If you skipped it back then, now’s a very good time

You've got to keep your software updated. Some unknown miscreants are exploiting a critical VMware vCenter Server bug more than a year after Broadcom patched the flaw.…

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys

updated If you think using Microsoft's BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption keys to unlock the laptops of Windows users charged in a fraud indictment.…

ShinyHunters claims Okta customer breaches, leaks data belonging to 3 orgs

'A lot more' victims to come, we're told

ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for an Okta voice-phishing campaign during which the extortionist crew allegedly gained access to Crunchbase and Betterment.…

AI-powered cyberattack kits are 'just a matter of time,' warns Google exec

Security chief says criminals are already automating workflows, with full end-to-end tools likely within years

CISOs must prepare for "a really different world" where cybercriminals can reliably automate cyberattacks at scale, according to a senior Googler.…

Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch

Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in

Fortinet has confirmed that attackers are actively bypassing a December patch for a critical FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication flaw after customers reported suspicious logins on devices supposedly fully up to date.…

London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack

Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming

Hammersmith & Fulham Council says payments are now being processed as usual, two months after a cyberattack that affected multiple boroughs in the UK's capital city.…

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start

Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1%

More than 15,000 former members of the UK's armed forces have successfully applied for a digital version of their veterans ID card since its launch in October, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS). …

Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams

Teach a crook to phish…

Criminals can more easily pull off social engineering scams and other forms of identity fraud thanks to custom voice-phishing kits being sold on dark web forums and messaging platforms.…

Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails

Logging in, not breaking in

Unknown attackers are abusing Microsoft SharePoint file-sharing services to target multiple energy-sector organizations, harvest user credentials, take over corporate inboxes, and then send hundreds of phishing emails from compromised accounts to contacts inside and outside those organizations.…

FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft

Admins say attackers are still getting in despite recent patches

FortiGate firewalls are getting quietly reconfigured and stripped down by miscreants who've figured out how to sidestep SSO protections and grab sensitive settings right out of the box.…

Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force

GDPR fines pushed past the Β£1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400Β data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that suggests the post-plateau era of enforcement has well and truly arrived.…

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls

Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row

Concerned about the orgs that safeguard your money? The UK's annual cybersecurity review for 2025 suggests you should be. Despite years of regulation, financial organizations continue to miss basic cybersecurity safeguards.…

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade

A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is "trivial" to exploit, experts say.…

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day

The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover

Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that's already being weaponized in the wild, and which CISA previously flagged as an emergency priority.…

Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild

Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality

AI agents arrived in Davos this week with the question of how to secure them - and prevent agents from becoming the ultimate insider threat - taking center stage during a panel discussion on cyber threats.…

Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam

Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords

updated Password managers make great targets for attackers because they can hold many of the keys to your kingdom. Now, LastPass has warned customers about phishing emails claiming that action is required ahead of scheduled maintenance and told them not to fall for the scam. …

Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data

Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) says 72.7 million accounts registered with Under Armour were affected by an alleged ransomware attack in November.…

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others

The European Commission (EC) wants a revised Cybersecurity Act to address any threats posed by IT and telecoms kit from third-country sources, potentially forcing member states to confront the thorny issue of suppliers such Huawei in their national networks.…

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Its very own Snooper’s Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion

The Irish government is planning to bolster its police's ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use.…

Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture

Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice

Britain's digital economy minister has sent forth a raft of companies as "ambassadors" to help organizations across the land embrace the UK's Software Security Code of Practice.…

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming β€˜silly' ones

The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contributions.…

Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers

ACME validation had a challenge-request hole

Cloudflare has fixed a flaw in its web application firewall (WAF) that allowed attackers to bypass security rules and directly access origin servers, which could lead to data theft or full server takeover.…

Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it

AI + skilled malware developers = security threat

VoidLink, the newly spotted Linux malware that targets victims' clouds with 37 evil plugins, was generated "almost entirely by artificial intelligence" and likely developed by just one person, according to the research team that discovered the do-it-all implant.…

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP

Two "easy-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in the popular open-source AI framework Chainlit put major enterprises' cloud environments at risk of leaking data or even full takeover, according to cyber-threat exposure startup Zafran.…

Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution

Prompt injection for the win

Anthropic has fixed three bugs in its official Git MCP server that researchers say can be chained with other MCP tools to remotely execute malicious code or overwrite files via prompt injection.…

For the price of Netflix, crooks can now rent AI to run cybercrime

Group-IB says crims forking out for Dark LLMs, deepfakes, and more at subscription prices

Cybercrime has entered its AI era, with criminals now using weaponized language models and deepfakes as cheap, off-the-shelf infrastructure rather than experimental tools, according to researchers at Group-IB.…

Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone

OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech

Interview When Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently threatened to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not disrupting pirate video streams, rival CDN provider Akamai’s CEO Dr. Tom Leighton fired back with what reads a lot like thinly veiled criticism.…

CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage

Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again

A group of CrowdStrike shareholders who sued the company over losses sustained following its 2024 global outage will have to head back to the drawing board if they hope to recoup losses, as a Texas judge has deemed they failed to adequately state a claim.…

Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing

Feras Albashiti faces 10 years after $20,000 in sales to undercover agent exposed ransomware ties

A Jordanian national faces sentencing in the US after pleading guilty to acting as an initial access broker (IAB) for various cyberattacks.…

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