Election workers fear 2026 threats without feds’ support • The Register
Feature Bill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election. "That's when we became pariahs within the Republican Party because we were not willing to...
Typhoon-adjacent crew breaking into Taiwanese web host • The Register
A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos reports. Talos tracks the...
Max-severity Cisco firewall management bug leads to RCE • The Register
Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability, tracked as...
Colt Telecom attack claimed by WarLock ransomware, data up for sale
UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services is dealing with a cyberattack that has caused a multi-day outage of some of the company's operations, including hosting and porting services, Colt Online, and Voice API platforms. The British...
Cisco warns of max severity flaw in Firewall Management Center
Cisco is warning about a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the RADIUS subsystem of its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. Cisco FCM is a management platform for the vendor’s Secure Firewall products, which provides a...
Microsoft reminds of Windows 10 support ending in two months
Microsoft has reminded customers that Windows 10 will be retired in two months after all editions of Windows 10, version 22H2 reach their end of servicing on October 14. On the same date, Windows 10 2015 LTSB and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2015 will also...
Dutch prosecution service attack keeps speed cameras offline • The Register
The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country. The Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder Courant has reported that dozens of Speed cameras remain offline...
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline • The Register
Updated Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a "cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a number of days. It told The Register that the attack targeted one of its internal systems, which is separate...
US sanctions Grinex crypto-exchange, successor to Garantex
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced sanctions against Grinex, the successor to Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which was previously sanctioned for helping ransomware gangs launder their money. A TRM Labs report, released in April,...
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft • The Register
A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’ personal data, even by attackers with "minimal technical expertise”, thanks to "system prompt" customization...