by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 2, 2025 | IT Security
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). In volumetric DDoS attacks, attackers overwhelm the target with massive...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 2, 2025 | IT Security
Huawei’s business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks. In its latest profit and loss accounts for the year ended December 31, 2024, Huawei...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 1, 2025 | IT Security
Cybersecurity company Zscaler warns it suffered a data breach after threat actors gained access to its Salesforce instance and stole customer information, including the contents of support cases. This warning follows the compromise of Salesloft Drift, an AI chat agent...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 1, 2025 | IT Security
Researchers have disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored threat group Midnight Blizzard, which sought access to Microsoft 365 accounts and data. Also known as APT29, the hacker group compromised websites in a watering hole campaign to redirect...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 1, 2025 | IT Security
Norway has ordered British-made Type 26 frigates in a contract valued at roughly £10 billion to the UK economy, but this may delay the introduction of the Royal Navy’s own desperately needed ships. The agreement announced yesterday will see at least five of the...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 1, 2025 | IT Security
Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn’t pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she built a career out of murder that out-bloodied Jack the Ripper. It’s a fair bet...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 31, 2025 | IT Security
Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta’s WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.” Meta made that alarming admission last week in a security advisory that disclosed CVE-2025-55177, which it described as allowing...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 31, 2025 | IT Security
OpenAI is working on a new feature called the Thinking effort picker for ChatGPT. With the Thinking effort picker, you can choose how hard ChatGPT can think. When a model thinks harder, it doesn’t necessarily mean a great response. You might not want the model...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 30, 2025 | IT Security
Threat actors have been using multiple websites promoted through Google ads to distribute a convincing PDF editing app that delivers an info-stealing malware called TamperedChef. The campaign is part of a larger operation with multiple apps that can download each...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 29, 2025 | IT Security
A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command. Pudu Robotics is a Chinese robot manufacturer with over 100,000...
