Latest news as of 5/18/2026, 4:21:10 PM
Graham Cluley
A ransomware gang that claims to be a group of "investigative journalists"? Meet LeakNet - the group using fake CAPTCHA pages to trick employees into hacking themselves. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
The Register
Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID checks.… Opinion price estimate
Bleeping Computer
North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. [...]
Dark Reading
The cloud security startup's platform translates and enforces security policies across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle using provider-native controls.
Bleeping Computer
Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets to infect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. [...]
Dark Reading
Major providers are testing a quantum-safe version of HTTPS that shrinks certificates to a tenth their previous size, decreasing latency and adding transparency.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft says the March Windows 11 update breaks sign-ins with Microsoft accounts across multiple Microsoft apps, including Teams and OneDrive. [...]
The Register
He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB Each Friday offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.… On Call The Register
Bleeping Computer
A North Carolina man was found guilty of extorting a D.C.-based technology company while still being employed as a data analyst contractor. [...]
The Hacker News
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by several Internet of Things (IoT) botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation. The effort also saw authorities from Canada and Germany targeting the operators behind these botnets, with a number of private