Great story from colleague @carlypage.bsky.social Defra is department which made vets buy old laptops on eBay because it was the only way to access the system which recorded bovine TB

Cops have seized the latest incarnation of Breach Forums, which had become the public-facing leak shop for Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest extortion campaign. The group claims the takedown has "no impact" on its planned leak of ~1 billion Salesforce records www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/c...

From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/h...

Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/a...

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/l...

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can't believe The Reg are already letting me get away with headlines like this www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/e...

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In a statement, Apple told me that it took action against fewer than 250 iCloud users that were affected by the breach at SpyX. Apple said when data breaches at other companies pose a risk to its customers, its security teams investigate & take action. More: techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/d...

NEW: North Korea is reportedly launching a new cybersecurity research unit called Research Center 227, which will be housed within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and will focus on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets. techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/n...

Hackers are ramping up attempts to exploit a trio of year-old ServiceNow vulnerabilities to break into unpatched company instances techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/h...

The Pennsylvania State Education Association says hackers stole the sensitive personal and financial information of more than half a million of its members.  PSEA said it “took steps” to ensure the stolen data was deleted, suggesting it paid a ransom demand techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/u...

NEW, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Citizen Lab have named several countries, including Canada, as potential customers of Paragon's Graphite spyware, weeks after WhatsApp notified 90 users — including a journalist and human rights defenders — that their devices were targeted by the Israeli-made spyware.

CISA is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/c...

Security researchers say hackers linked to the notorious LockBit gang are exploiting a pair of Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware on company networks techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/h...

New, by me: Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist posts resurfaced (and was rehired soon after), violated Treasury rules when he sent an unencrypted email containing personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials. techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/d...

NEW: @journalistjagmeet.com confirmed that Indian police have arrested co-founder of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex Aleksej Besciokov. Police said arrest was under extradition law, suggesting it was on behalf of U.S. authorities who indicted Besciokov with money laundering crimes.

NEW by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: North Korean-linked hackers uploaded Android spyware to Google Play. The spyware, which collects an “extensive amount” of sensitive data, was downloaded more than 10 times before Google removed it, according to Lookout techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/n...

the new yorker has proudly updated its style guidelines to get rid of anachronisms like "web site," "in box," and "the Internet." techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/t...

Elon Musk’s DOGE has fired more than a hundred employees working for the CISA, including “red team” employees, two people affected by the layoffs confirmed to TechCrunch  One of the affected employees said they are now looking for “DOGE-resistant gigs” techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/d...

A hacker compromised PowerSchool months before its massive data breach in December. The hacker used the same compromised credentials used in the December breach to access PowerSchool’s network in August, according to CrowdStrike techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/h...

NEW: After authorities took down the domains of Russian crypto exchange's Garantex, and charged two of its administrators for facilitating money laundering, the company is now inviting customers for “face-to-face meetings” at its headquarters. 🤔 techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/f...

NEW: The U.S. government has accused two administrators of Russian crypto exchange Garantex of facilitating money laundering for terrorists and cybercriminals. Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda allegedly knew they were helping ransomware hackers as well as DPRK's Lazarus Group.

Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications says hackers stole the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack. It’s not yet known how many individuals had personal data stolen or who was behind the NTT breach techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/j...

The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to US corporate executives techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/f...

New, by me: U.K. health giant HCRG, which was hacked last month, demanded a U.S.-based cybersecurity journalist who writes at DataBreaches.net "take down" their reporting, citing a U.K. court order. The journalist declined to comply, citing a lack of jurisdiction. techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/h...

NEW: U.S. Secret Service and other international law enforcement agencies have seized the website of Russian crypto exchange Garantex. Garantex had previously been sanctioned by U.S. government for being associated with ransomware gangs like Conti, and by EU government for ties to Russian banks.

The U.K. government has quietly scrubbed encryption advice from its government web pages. This comes just weeks after the U.K. government demanded backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service. from @carlypage.bsky.social: techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/u...

The UK government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages. The change comes just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/u...

NEW: A Barcelona court ruled that NSO Group co-founders Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, as well as former executive of two affiliate companies Yuval Somekh, can be charged for the alleged hacking of a lawyer. “We have no comment,” NSO Group told us. techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/c...

The Department of Justice has announced criminal charges against 12 Chinese government-linked hackers who are accused of hacking over 100 American organizations, including the U.S. Treasury, over the course of a decade techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/j...

New, by me: CIA Director John Ratcliffe has confirmed that the Trump administration paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, following the heated exchange between the two countries’ leaders on Friday. Ratcliffe said the pause "will go away," but didn't specify when. techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/c...

Broadcom is warning that a trio of VMware vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by hackers to compromise the networks of its corporate customers techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/b...

POLSA, Poland’s space agency, says it's working to restore services following a cyberattack techcrunch.com/2025/03/04/p...

New, by me: A month on from its ransomware attack, Lee Enterprises is still experiencing disruption and outages — including payments to freelancers and other outside vendors. One person, who is owed thousands of dollars, said have no idea when they are getting paid. techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/l...

The US has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports. The reported policy change comes just months after the US intelligence community said Russia poses an “enduring cyber threat” to US critical infrastructure techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/u...

NEW: Google fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android that were used by authorities to unlock phones with Cellebrite forensic tools. The fixes come after Amnesty alerted Google, following the analysis of a Serbian student protester's phone. techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/r...

The Belgian federal prosecutor's office confirmed to TechCrunch that it is investigating an alleged breach of its state security service (VSSE) by China-backed hackers.  The hackers reportedly used a Barracuda ESG vulnerability to access VSSE’s external mail server techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/b...

NEW: After security researchers and firms accused North Korea of the massive Bybit hack, the FBI follows suit. North Korean government hackers allegedly stoled more than $1.4 billion in Ethereum from the crypto exchange. techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/f...

NEW: Hacked crypto exchange Bybit is offering $140 million in bounties to anyone who can help locate and freeze the stolen ethereum. Bybit also disclosed preliminary results of investigations, which reveal hackers breached a developer’s device at a wallet platform Safe Wallet.

NEW: Cellebrite said it stopped authorities in Serbia from using of its cellphone forensic tools. Decision comes after cases where Serbian police and intelligence used Cellebrite to unlock activist and journalist phone to then install spyware on them. techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/c...

Australian IVF provider Genea confirms hackers have leaked patient data after Termite listed the firm on its dark web site. A court order prohibiting publication of the data reveals hackers breached Genea's network in January to steal more than 900GB of information techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/h...

Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/t...

DISA Global Solutions has confirmed a data breach affecting 3.3 million people. The Texas-based company, which provides services including drug and alcohol testing and background checks, said the stolen data includes individuals' SSNs and financial information techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/u...

Australia has become the latest country to ban government officials from using software made by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/a...

NEW: Multiple researchers — independent and crypto monitoring firms — are accusing North Korean hackers of stealing $1.4 billion in crypto from Bybit. Attribution is based on link to previous hacks and "characteristic pattern" of laundering the funds. techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/r...