Alexander Martin reports: Two British teenagers charged with Computer Misuse Act offenses over a cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) last year pleaded not guilty during a court appearance on Friday. Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, were arrested at their homes in East London and Walsall, respectively, by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA)…
Zack Whittaker reports: A Russian telecom company that develops technology to allow phone and internet companies to conduct web surveillance and censorship was hacked, had its website defaced, and had data stolen from its servers, TechCrunch has learned. Founded in Russia, Protei makes telecommunications systems for phone and internet providers across dozens of countries, including……
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of continued risks posed by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware known as XorDDoS, with 71.3 percent of the attacks between November 2023 and February 2025 targeting the United States. “From 2020 to 2023, the XorDDoS trojan has increased significantly in prevalence,” Cisco Talos researcher Joey Chen said in a Thursday analysis.
There’s an update to an indictment announced by the DOJ in April 2021. In today’s reminder of the insider threat, DOJ announced: A federal jury in Cleveland convicted a Texas man today for writing and deploying malicious code on his former employer’s network. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Davis Lu, 55,…
Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. “When you turn on Identity Check, your device will require explicit biometric authentication to access certain sensitive resources when you’re outside of trusted locations,” Google said in a post announcing…
Stephen Withers reports: Regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (Apra’s) CPS 230 standard have led organisations to become “really obsessed” with the 72-hour notification window following a data breach, according to Shannon Murphy, global security and risk strategist at Trend Micro. However, this focus means many are still……
A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad. “The attacker targeted Windows Servers with WSUS enabled, exploiting CVE-2025-59287 for initial access,” AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) said in a report published last week. “They then used PowerCat, an open-source
