Author: Robert Booth UK technology editor

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster city council investigate whether data has been compromised At least two London councils have been hit by a cyber-attack and have invoked emergency plans as they investigate whether any data has been compromised. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City council, which share some … Read More “Two London councils enact emergency plans after being hit by cyber-attack  – Data and computer security | The Guardian” »

Enterprises today are expected to have at least 6-8 detection tools, as detection is considered a standard investment and the first line of defense. Yet security leaders struggle to justify dedicating resources further down the alert lifecycle to their superiors. As a result, most organizations’ security investments are asymmetrical, robust detection tools paired with an … Read More “When Your $2M Security Detection Fails: Can your SOC Save You?  – The Hacker News” »

The final season of “Stranger Things” is upon us, and 1980s nostalgia is at an all-time high. The clunky control panels at Hawkins Lab help set the stage for the show. The unfortunate reality is that similar legacy systems still exist in operational technology (OT) environments today. Just as Hawkins Lab spawned a monstrous compendium … Read More “‘Stranger Things’ emerge when OT security is stuck in the past  – CyberScoop” »

Bitdefender Labs found fake Battlefield 6 pirated copies and trainers spreading aggressive malware, C2 agents, and infostealers, designed to steal player data and crypto-wallets.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

If you’re using community tools like Chocolatey or Winget to keep systems updated, you’re not alone. These platforms are fast, flexible, and easy to work with—making them favorites for IT teams. But there’s a catch… The very tools that make your job easier might also be the reason your systems are at risk. These tools … Read More “Webinar: Learn to Spot Risks and Patch Safely with Community-Maintained Tools  – The Hacker News” »

The threat actors behind a malware family known as RomCom targeted a U.S.-based civil engineering company via a JavaScript loader dubbed SocGholish to deliver the Mythic Agent. “This is the first time that a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed by SocGholish,” Arctic Wolf Labs researcher Jacob Faires said in a Tuesday report. The … Read More “RomCom Uses SocGholish Fake Update Attacks to Deliver Mythic Agent Malware  – The Hacker News” »

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that cybercriminals are impersonating financial institutions with an aim to steal money or sensitive information to facilitate account takeover (ATO) fraud schemes. The activity targets individuals, businesses, and organizations of varied sizes and across sectors, the agency said, adding the fraudulent schemes have led to more … Read More “FBI Reports $262M in ATO Fraud as Researchers Cite Growing AI Phishing and Holiday Scams  – The Hacker News” »

As legitimate businesses purchase AI tools from some of the largest companies in the world, cybercriminals are accessing  an increasingly sophisticated underground market for custom LLMs designed to  assist with lower-level hacking tasks. In a report published Tuesday, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 looked at how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and … Read More “Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’   – CyberScoop” »

An independent forensic investigation is underway to determine the extent of the intrusion into customer management software Gainsight’s systems and whether the breach has spread beyond Salesforce to other third-party applications. Despite this ongoing analysis, the company maintains that the impact on customer data stored within connected services is limited and largely contained. “While Salesforce … Read More “Gainsight CEO downplays impact of attack that spread to Salesforce environments  – CyberScoop” »

Artificial intelligence (AI) helps us in doing small and big things that are important in our daily lives.…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Horsham, United Kingdom, 25th November 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Everest claims large breaches at Iberia and Air Miles España with major data taken from both travel platforms placing millions of users at risk.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

New research has found that organizations in various sensitive sectors, including governments, telecoms, and critical infrastructure, are pasting passwords and credentials into online tools like JSONformatter and CodeBeautify that are used to format and validate code. Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs said it captured a dataset of over 80,000 files on these sites, uncovering thousands of  … Read More “Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys  – The Hacker News” »

In episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why his AI-generated country music career hasn’t yet paid for even a Tesco Meal Deal. Anthropic claims it has caught the first … Read More “The AI Fix #78: The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud  – Graham Cluley” »

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a “critical” Windows security update. “Campaign leverages fake adult websites (xHamster, PornHub clones) as its phishing mechanism, likely distributed via malvertising,” Acronis said in … Read More “JackFix Uses Fake Windows Update Pop-Ups on Adult Sites to Deliver Multiple Stealers  – The Hacker News” »

AI security firm AISLE revealed CVE-2025-13016, a critical Firefox Wasm bug that risked 180M users for six months. Learn how the memory flaw allowed code execution.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Discover why reliability, scalability, and local support matter more than cost when choosing Australian web hosting for your tech stack.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed adopting new methods to obtain access to corporate email data belonging to target companies, including using a custom tool dubbed TCSectorCopy. “This attack allows them to obtain tokens for the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol using the user’s browser, which can be used outside the perimeter of … Read More “ToddyCat’s New Hacking Tools Steal Outlook Emails and Microsoft 365 Access Tokens  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that has leveraged Blender Foundation files to deliver an information stealer known as StealC V2. “This ongoing operation, active for at least six months, involves implanting malicious .blend files on platforms like CGTrader,” Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said in a report shared with The Hacker News. … Read More “Hackers Hijack Blender 3D Assets to Deploy StealC V2 Data-Stealing Malware  – The Hacker News” »

2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns. The Storm on the Horizon Global world instability, coupled with rapid technological advancement, will force security teams to adapt not … Read More “3 SOC Challenges You Need to Solve Before 2026  – The Hacker News” »

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications. “These cyber actors use sophisticated targeting and social engineering techniques to deliver spyware and gain unauthorized access to a victim’s messaging app,  … Read More “CISA Warns of Active Spyware Campaigns Hijacking High-Value Signal and WhatsApp Users  – The Hacker News” »

Security researchers and authorities are warning about a fresh wave of supply-chain attacks linked to a self-replicating worm that attackers have injected into almost 500 npm (node.js package manager) software packages, exposing more than 26,000 open-source repositories on GitHub. The trojanized npm packages, which were first discovered late Sunday by Charlie Eriksen, security researcher at … Read More “Shai-Hulud worm returns stronger and more automated than ever before  – CyberScoop” »

According to Anthropic, its large language model Claude is designed to be a “harmless” and helpful assistant. But new research released by the company Nov. 21 shows that when Claude is taught to cheat in one area, it becomes broadly malicious and untrustworthy in other areas. The research, conducted by 21 people — including contributors … Read More “New research finds that Claude breaks bad if you teach it to cheat  – CyberScoop” »

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned Monday about threat groups using commercial spyware to target messaging apps, and urged users to take protective steps. “CISA is aware of multiple cyber threat actors actively leveraging commercial spyware to target users of mobile messaging applications (apps),” the agency said in a brief online notice. “These cyber … Read More “CISA alert draws attention to spyware’s targeting of messaging apps  – CyberScoop” »

On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix, ESPN and Hulu, all for a one-time fee of around $400. But security experts warn these TV boxes require intrusive … Read More “Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?  – Krebs on Security” »

X (formerly known as Twitter) has added a new location detail in its account transparency section. It shows…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

The Shai Hulud worm’s “Second Coming” has compromised over 26,000 public repositories. We detail the attacker’s mistake, the target packages, and mandatory security tips.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source and lightweight telemetry agent, that could be chained to compromise and take over cloud infrastructures. The security defects “allow attackers to bypass authentication, perform path traversal, achieve remote code execution, cause denial-of-service conditions, and manipulate tags,” Oligo Security said in  – Read More  – … Read More “New Fluent Bit Flaws Expose Cloud to RCE and Stealthy Infrastructure Intrusions  – The Hacker News” »

Some cybersecurity advice has been around for ages: Frequently change passwords, avoid public Wi-Fi. But most experts say a lot of that knowledge is rooted in myth. On Monday, an initiative launched to counter those stubborn misconceptions, on the notion that their persistence is actually harmful to what keeps people secure. Bob Lord, a former … Read More “This campaign aims to tackle persistent security myths in favor of better advice  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity firm Checkmarx Zero, in collaboration with Microsoft, removed a malicious ‘prettier-vscode-plus’ extension from the VSCode Marketplace. The fake coding tool was a Brandjacking attempt designed to deploy Anivia Stealer malware and steal Windows user credentials and data.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Tel Aviv, Israel, 24th November 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Tel Aviv, Israel, 24th November 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates. Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast — stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, … Read More “⚡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploit, Chrome 0-Day, BadIIS Malware, Record DDoS, SaaS Breach & More  – The Hacker News” »

Multiple security vendors are sounding the alarm about a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner that’s reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack. The new supply chain campaign, dubbed Sha1-Hulud, has compromised hundreds of npm packages, according to reports from Aikido, HelixGuard, Koi Security, Socket, and Wiz. “The campaign introduces a new … Read More “Second Sha1-Hulud Wave Affects 25,000+ Repositories via npm Preinstall Credential Theft  – The Hacker News” »

Certo Software found RadzaRat, an Android RAT disguised as a file manager that has a 0/66 detection rate on VirusTotal. It keylogs passwords and steals files.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China. “We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it  – Read More  … Read More “Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Generates Insecure Code When Prompts Mention Tibet or Uyghurs  – The Hacker News” »