Joe Tidy reports: After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him in a Colorado prison, I hear the door click open before I see him walk into the room. I stand up ready to give this former cyber-crime kingpin a professional hello. But, like a cheeky cartoon character, he…
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Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown
Martin Matishak reports: A deal to reopen the U.S. government would also renew an expired cybersecurity information sharing law until the end of January. The Senate on Sunday advanced legislation to end a weeks-long shutdown stalemate that includes a provision to reauthorize the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act through January 30. The law, which incentivizes…
Android Hit by 0-Click RCE Vulnerability in Core System Component
Divya reports: Google has released an urgent security alert addressing a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Android devices worldwide. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-48593, exists in Android’s System component and requires no user interaction for exploitation, making it an exceptionally dangerous threat. The flaw affects Android versions 13 through 16 and demands immediate attention from device…
Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told
MM News reports: In a shocking revelation, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told that hackers have defrauded several members of Parliament of hundreds of thousands of rupees through online scams. During the committee meeting, chaired by Senator Faisal Saleem, it was disclosed that hackers managed to deceive various parliamentarians, extracting large sums of…
“Louvre” as a password, outdated software, impossible updates… Ten years of IT security breaches at the world’s leading museum
The headline, and the text that follows, is a machine translation of an article by Brice Le Borgne that appeared in Liberation on November 1, 2025: “The museum’s security systems did not fail,” insisted Culture Minister Rachida Dati shortly after the spectacular burglary at the Louvre Museum on October 19. Ten days later, the tone had changed. On…
Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says
Tom Schuba reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the…