Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insurance The UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for how Britain handles major cyber crises.…
Sysdig details how threat actors exploited a critical CVE in Langflow in less than a day
Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Opinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID checks.…
The National Crime Agency’s director general warns that technology is rapidly reshaping crime
He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB On Call Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…
Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety It turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps and developers on Android after all. In the face of sustained community dissatisfaction with its developer verification requirement, Google has given Android users an out.…
Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.…
Hastalamuerte leaks The Gentlemen RaaS ops: FortiGate exploits, BYOVD evasion, Qilin split tactics
Mobile banking malware targets over 1200 financial apps globally, shifting fraud to user devices
The UK’s financial regulator has issued new rules to make incident and third-party reporting clearer
Notorious ransomware group Interlock has been exploiting a Cisco zero-day bug since January, AWS says
35% of security leaders working in the UK’s critical infrastructure said regulatory requirements are the primary influence on their security programs
Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.…
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.…
Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…
CVE-2026-3888 Ubuntu snap flaw lets local users escalate to root via timing-based exploit
ShieldGuard Chrome extension posed as a crypto security tool but stole wallets and drained user data
Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.…
Rapid7 says median time from publication to CISA KEV inclusion dropped to five days