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U.S. places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind
By Sunny Grimm published
Volodymyr Tymoshchuk is accused of masterminding ransomware that disrupted 250 companies in the United States alone.

Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices'
By Mark Tyson last updated
Ethical hackers have detailed how they uncovered 'catastrophic' vulnerabilities in various Burger King systems.

Console repairer encounters Xbox 360 that Microsoft banned over 'bad debt' from unpaid bills — Microsoft MVP chimes in with an elegant official solution
By Mark Tyson published
A Microsoft Xbox 360 console that refuses to play due to ‘bad debt’ has raised more than a few eyebrows.

Intel Outside: Researcher downloaded data on all 270,000 Intel employees from an internal business card website
By Mark Tyson published
Security researcher Eaton was inspired to do some gentle prying of Intel websites, after considering the company's hardware security reputation.

Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky
By Nathaniel Mott published
A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.

Russia hacked and took control of a Norwegian dam, police chief claims
By Mark Tyson published
Moscow is to blame for a cyberattack on a dam, which remotely opened the floodgates for a period of around four hours, says Norway's security chief.

ChatGPT agent casually brushes aside ‘I am not a robot’ captcha
By Mark Tyson published
A Redditor has demonstrated the ability of the recently launched ChatGPT agent to casually swat away a captcha, so that it can complete its assigned task(s).

Microsoft says China-based hackers exploiting critical SharePoint vulnerabilities to deploy Warlock ransomware
By Nathaniel Mott published
Microsoft said that critical vulnerabilities in SharePoint are being exploited by a potentially China-linked threat actor, Storm-2603, to deploy ransomware.

Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request
By Nathaniel Mott published
A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device.

This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action
By Mark Tyson published
Team Group's new M.2 2280 SSD comes with a big red button. Hold it one second too long, and it destroys your NAND instead of just erasing the data.
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