> TODAY'S SUMMARY (98 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several critical threats and trends. Anthropic has taken its AI models offline after incidents involving breaches of U.S. government sites, signaling growing concerns over AI security. Ahold Delhaize and major French supermarket chains faced significant disruptions from cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems, leading to food waste and operational downtime. In another notable incident, Ledger confirmed a hardware implant in its wallets, resulting in cryptocurrency theft. Additionally, a critical vulnerability in SonicWall appliances is being actively exploited, urging organizations to patch immediately. The trend of utilizing AI in cyber operations continues, with reports of CyberXero using AI agents to steal sensitive records from Ukraine. Overall, the landscape remains dynamic and fraught with escalating threats.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 20:00
Microsoft has discovered a zero-day denial of service vulnerability in the server message block (SMB) protocol used in Windows 7.
Sophos has warned internet users against buying Tamiflu online, the drug designed to help stop people getting infected by the H1N1 virus also known as the swine flu.
Verbatim has taken the wraps off a Secure ExpressCard-based solid state drive (SSD) with onboard 256-bit hardware encryption.
PandaLabs, the malware labs division of Panda Security, has encountered a fake Facebook page designed to steal passwords from users of the social networking portal.
The Zbot trojan - which typically distributes itself via emails pointing at or supplying an infected download - has been spotted targeting customers of the Verizon and Vodafone mobile phone networks on both sides of the Atlantic.
A group of MPs have voiced their opinion that the extradition to the US of self-confessed UFO hacker Gary McKinnon should be halted - and that he should stand trail in the UK - owing to the "precarious state of (his) mental health".
Microsoft has announced guidance for applying secure programming techniques for agile software developers. The company rolled out new guidelines that will enable agile software developers to apply its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) guidelines.
Just days after an iPhone worm was discovered in the wild, Mac security firm Intego has discovered a hacker tool targeting the iPhone that exploits the same vulnerability.
avast! CEO Vincent Steckler told Infosecurity this week that the new version of the free avast! anti-virus includes more capabilities such as behavioural detections at the same time as being faster and smaller. It can also wake up your computer in the night to do a virus scan before putting it back...
Understanding what goes on at the various secret service divisions such as MI5 and MI6, as well as GCHQ, has been helped with the news that Qosmos, a network intelligence specialist, will unveil an LI (lawful interception) edition of its ixMachine at Milipol in Paris next week.
Botnet controllers have been using cloud based systems such as the Google cloud platform as command and control nodes for infected PCs, said a researcher at Arbor Networks.
An unknown hacker - apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan - has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.
Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay US$710.7 million to social networking company Facebook following a federal court case. Wallace is said to have compromised Facebook accounts using phishing emails, and used them to send spam to other members.
It's taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign - unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.
A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn't have a plan to deal with it.
The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.
Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users' files during play. Lose/Lose warns 'victims' that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, and it keeps its word.
Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users' hard drive.
Cisco, EMC - the parent company to RSA Security - and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.
Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.