German phone repair biz collapses following 2023 cyberattack • The Register
The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023. Wilhelm Einhaus, who heads up Hamm-based Einhaus Group,...
Lazarus Group rises again, this time with fake FOSS • The Register
Infosec In Brief North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software. Software supply chain management vendor Sonatype last week published research in which it claimed that Lazarus Group has created hundreds of...
Silent Push CEO talks cybercrime takedowns with The Register • The Register
interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain...
Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins
A threat actor has been abusing link wrapping services from reputed technology companies to mask malicious links leading to Microsoft 365 phishing pages that collect login credentials. The attacker exploited the URL security feature from cybersecurity company...
OpenAI prepares new open weight models along with GPT-5
OpenAI isn't just working on GPT-5. It looks like OpenAI is also preparing to release new open-source weights, living up to its name, "OpenAI." As spotted on X, two new open-source weights, "gpt-oss-20b" and "gpt-oss-120b," have been spotted on HuggingFace,...
Anthropic says OpenAI engineers using Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch
Anthropic says it has revoked OpenAI's access to the Claude API after ChatGPT's engineers were found using Claude's coding tools. Claude Code is better than any other coding tool in the AI coding industry, also known as "Vibe coding." With Claude, you can...
CISA, USCG make example out of organization they audited • The Register
CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong. The US cybersecurity agency, along with experts from the US Coast Guard (USCG), identified...
OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option • The Register
OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information. The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in search results, an...
OpenAI may be testing a cheaper paid plan for ChatGPT
OpenAI is reportedly working on a new plan called 'Go,' which would be cheaper than the existing $20 Plus subscription. Like every other AI chatbot, ChatGPT has two plans. One is Plus, which gives access to new models and a few features for $20, and the second...
Microsoft Recall can still nab credit cards, passwords, info • The Register
exclusive Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so you can search for it later, has a filter that's supposed to prevent it from screenshotting sensitive info like credit card numbers. But a The Register test shows that it...