Tag: computer
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Healthcare Disruption, Critical Software Flaws, and Exposed PLCs Show How Quickly Cyber Risk Becomes Business Risk
Tags: business, computer, cyber, cyberattack, data-breach, flaw, healthcare, Internet, phone, risk, softwareAnMed temporarily closed 79 of its 106 facilities after a cyberattack disrupted computer systems, phone lines, and internet connectivity. Appointments were postponed, elective procedures faced uncertainty, and the health system had to coordinate care while teams worked to restore access. For a healthcare provider, that kind of disruption reaches far beyond technology. It affects how……
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Inside police plans to share intelligence and crime data across the UK
Computer Weekly examines how UK police will use Palantir’s AI tools to dramatically increase intelligence sharing between forces, enabling investigators to analyse mobile phone data and sensitive information at scale First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645965/Inside-police-plans-to-share-intelligence-and-crime-data-across-the-UK
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Fake IT Calls on Microsoft Teams Lead to GoGRPC Backdoor Infections
Fake helpdesk callers use Microsoft Teams and Quick Assist to access employee computers, where attackers install new GoGRPC backdoor in suspected ransomware operations First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fake-it-calls-microsoft-teams-gogrpc-backdoor/
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Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people
Healthcare billing company Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) has disclosed that a 2025 network breach exposed the sensitive information of more than 1.2 million people. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-breach-at-medical-billing-firm-mcbs-affects-126-million-people/
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Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for spyware attack against UK dissidents, top UK court rules
The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366646130/Bahrain-cannot-claim-sovereign-immunity-for-spyware-attack-against-UK-dissidents-top-UK-court-rules
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UK court rejects Bahrain immunity claim in spyware case
The alleged hacking by officials in Bahrain “allowed access to and exfiltration of information on the computers, interception of communications conducted using the computers and use of the computers’ microphones and cameras to surveil the respondents,” according to the court opinion. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-court-rejects-bahrain-immunity-claim-spyware-case
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Dysphoria IoT Botnet Adds Blockchain C2 and Victim Relays After JackSkid Disruption
Dysphoria, an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet line tracked by CNCERT and XLab, has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure. The researchers say the design makes the botnet harder to disrupt.CNCERT, China’s national computer emergency response team, and XLab, the threat-intelligence lab of Chinese First seen…
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Steam forum ClickFix attacks infect gamers with XMRig cryptominers
Steam discussion forums are being abused in ClickFix attacks that pretend to be fixes for game and computer problems but actually infect devices with cryptominers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/steam-forum-clickfix-attacks-infect-gamers-with-xmrig-cryptominers/
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Illinois Man Pleads Guilty to Phishing 4,500 Snapchat Users to Steal Private Photos
An Illinois man has pleaded guilty to a phishing and account-compromise scheme that targeted thousands of Snapchat users, leading to the theft of private images from numerous women. Federal prosecutors stated that Kyle Svara, 27, of Oswego, Illinois, admitted to charges including aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and…
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Google’s newest sign-in method asks you to look at the camera
Google’s selfie video sign-in option verifies that an account owner is a real person and that the account wasn’t created or used by computer programs or bots for the purpose … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/24/google-selfie-video-sign-in-verification/
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Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that’s dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems.The activity has been attributed by the agency to a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0099, a Russia-aligned group that has previously observed…
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Ukraine warns fake CAPTCHAs are being used to make you hack yourself
Ukraine’s computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, has warned that the Kremlin-backed Sandworm hacking group is leveraging fake CAPTCHA checks on compromised websites that persuade users to run malicious code. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ukraine-fake-captchas-hack-yourself
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UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware.According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm, an advanced hacking unit affiliated with GRU, Russia’s First seen on…
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Selfish Bravado Behind TfL Cyber-Attack, Judge Says as Pair Jailed
The perpetrators of the 2024 TfL cyber-attack have been jailed for five and a half years each after pleading guilty to Computer Misuse Act offences First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/selfish-bravado-behind-tfl/
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Interview: Lucie Audibert, solicitor in MP Jess Asato’s Grok case
AWO solicitor Lucie Audibert speaks with Computer Weekly about representing Labour MP Jess Asato’s legal claim against xAI’s chatbot Grok, its nudification capabilities and how this case may define what liability for developers of AI tools look like First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645620/Interview-Lucie-Audibert-solicitor-in-MP-Jess-Asatos-Grok-case
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No one knows how many old shims can still bypass UEFI Secure Boot
The vast majority of UEFI computers carry a Microsoft certificate that will trust a small first-stage loader called a shim, a program Microsoft signs so that Linux and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/14/eset-uefi-secure-boot-bypass/
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Adaptive Malware Could Evade Signature Detection by Regenerating Its Attack Capabilities
Adaptive, AI-driven malware could challenge a foundational assumption in enterprise defense: that a malicious program’s exploitation logic remains fixed after deployment. New research on adaptive computer worms argues that a self-replicating agent paired with an onboard reasoning loop could assess different environments, select target-specific attack paths, and regenerate capabilities as older methods become less effective.…
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Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration.”The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory and exporting out a number of files, and finally creating AD_Report.html to measure the success of…
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NSA revives ‘Tailored Access Operations’ name for elite hacking unit
NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital community for a group with roots in the early 1990s. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/nsa-revives-tao-name-for-elite-hacking-unit
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New TrojPix technique uses screen pixels to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/new-trojpix-technique-uses-screen-pixels-to-exfiltrate-data-from-air-gapped-computers
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Spanish Police Arrest Man Linked to CARR, Z-Pentest, and NoName057(16)
Spain arrested a suspected CARR and Z-Pentest collaborator in an FBI-led probe for aiding pro-Russian hackers, coordinating attacks, and using crypto. Spanish National Police arrested a man in Palencia last March on charges of membership in and collaboration with a terrorist organization, glorifying terrorism, and computer damage. The investigation, carried out jointly with the FBI,…
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The industries being reimagined by AI
Throughout human history, technology has changed what we think is possible. Once, communication meant sending a letter. Now, we are all buried under a constant stream of emails, messages and notifications. AI marks another major inflection point. For the first time, ordinary people can communicate with computers in natural language, not code. That shift is…
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Complaint urges ban on ‘unlawful’ Europol processing of personal data
Migration campaign group Front-Lex has filed a complaint to Europe’s data protection watchdog, calling for a ban on Europol’s data processing operations that do not comply with EU law, following an investigation by Computer Weekly, Solomon and Correctiv First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645384/Complaint-urges-ban-on-unlawful-Europol-processing-of-personal-data
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New TrojPix Attack Leaks Data From Air-Gapped Systems via Video Cable Emissions
Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them radiates a faint radio signal a nearby receiver can decode.But TrojPix works only…
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UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK technology
Computer Weekly has announced the 16th annual UKtech50 our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645297/UKtech50-2026-The-most-influential-people-in-UK-technology
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19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges
A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 1.Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S. and Estonian citizen, appeared in a Chicago federal court on June 30, where a judge…
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GuardFall Flaw Hits 10 of 11 Popular Open-Source AI Agents
Researchers found a shell injection flaw in 10 of 11 popular open-source AI agents, allowing attackers to bypass command filters. Adversa AI just published a survey, titled >>GuardFall: a universal shell injection vulnerability in open-source AI agents,<< of eleven open-source AI coding and computer-use agents, and the headline finding is uncomfortable: ten of them leave…
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GuardFall Exposes Open-Source AI Coding Agents to Decades-Old Shell Injection Risks
The safety check that is supposed to stop an AI coding agent from running a dangerous command can be walked straight past using a shell trick that has been public for decades.New research from Adversa AI, which is named the bypass GuardFall, found it works against ten of the eleven popular open-source coding and computer-use…
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Trafficked, beaten and raped: raids reveal scale of abuse of women in Asia’s cyberscam centres
As<strong> </strong>tens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly menLate one evening in October 2023, Sarah* felt labour pains starting. It was 11pm, but at the <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia”>cyberscam compound inside Laos’ Golden Triangle, workers were logging on for a long night shift, scamming…
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Trafficked, beaten and raped: raids reveal scale of abuse of women in Asia’s cyberscam centres
As<strong> </strong>tens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly menLate one evening in October 2023, Sarah* felt labour pains starting. It was 11pm, but at the <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia”>cyberscam compound inside Laos’ Golden Triangle, workers were logging on for a long night shift, scamming…