It was one of the offenders’ final warning Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.… READ MORE HERE…

Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers’ customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.… READ MORE HERE…

Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist Exclusive  Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK’s NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.… READ MORE HERE…

Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist Exclusive  Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK’s NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.… READ MORE HERE…

‘BrowserVenom’ is pure poison Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called “BrowserVenom”.… READ MORE HERE…

FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters – a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks – with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.… READ MORE HERE…