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

22 January 2026 at 20:18

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.…

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

21 January 2026 at 19:10

Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords

updatedΒ  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. …

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

20 January 2026 at 19:48

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.…

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

15 January 2026 at 23:15

What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see

What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President NicolΓ‘s Maduro.…

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

15 January 2026 at 16:00

And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg

A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz security researchers.…

Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack

13 January 2026 at 22:17

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group

Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.…

As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security

8 January 2026 at 23:09

Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely...

CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle to secure skyrocketing numbers of non-human identities, including AI agents.…

Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit

8 January 2026 at 19:43

No reports of active exploitation … yet

Cisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to access sensitive information - and warned that a public, proof-of-concept exploit for the flaw exists online.…

ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open

7 January 2026 at 19:02

Two weeks, two major data leaks … not a good look for the European Space Agency

exclusiveΒ  The European Space Agency on Wednesday confirmed yet another massive security breach, and told The Register that the data thieves responsible will be subject to a criminal investigation. And this could be a biggie.…

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