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Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins
Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing their Elastic Container Service (ECS) and their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources, in an ongoing operation that started on November 2.…
Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics
The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance is calling for standardized ways to measure energy consumption, saying that the industry cannot deliver on its efficiency and sustainability goals without them.…
Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon
Just when you thought 2025 couldn't get any weirder, Trump Media and Technology Group - best known for Truth Social - is jumping into the still-nascent but heavily funded nuclear fusion industry via a planned merger with TAE Technologies.…
Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025
North Korea's yearly cryptocurrency thefts have accelerated, with Kim's state-backed cybercriminals plundering just over $2 billion worth of tokens in 2025.…
Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit
SonicWall has warned customers of a zero-day flaw in its SMA 1000 remote-access appliance that's being actively exploited, potentially allowing attackers to escalate privileges and take over boxes.…
FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation
US feds have dismantled a crypto laundering service that they say helped cybercrooks wash tens of millions of dollars in dirty digital cash, seizing its servers and unsealing charges against an alleged Russian operator.…
Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt
NASA has a new administrator. Billionaire and space tourist Jared Isaacman was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 67 to 30.…
NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems
An NHS tech supplier is investigating a cyberattack that affected its systems in the early hours of Sunday.…
React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines
Microsoft says attackers have already compromised "several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations" via the React2Shell flaw, using the access to execute code, deploy malware, and, in some cases, deliver ransomware.…
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI
The UK government wants the BBC to help Brits understand AI and develop basic technology skills as part of the public broadcaster's next charter period.…
DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in
The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has appointed a new chief exec to tackle spiraling waits for practical driving tests with bots overrunning its aging booking system.…
UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns
The UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) has several regulatory gaps that must be plugged in future legislative reforms, according to Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPC) Sir Brian Leveson.…
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions
If UK readers are perplexed by the country's seemingly shambolic state of broadband and telecoms, relative to other European nations, insight can be gleaned from a one-off evidence session conducted by Parliament.…
United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday reached consensus on a review of the world’s internet governance arrangements and preserved the current multi-stakeholder model that means governments are just one of many voices that debate the future of the internet.…
Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future
Memory-maker Micron Technology has predicted that RAM shortages are here to stay, meaning higher prices for servers probably are, too.…
ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow
In October, Salesforce debuted Agentforce IT in a direct challenge to ServiceNow’s ITSM product, and analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst Charles Betz rated it the “most credible threat” ServiceNow has ever faced.…
Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement
Purdue University last week said it will require incoming undergraduate students to meet an "AI working competency" requirement in order to graduate.…
Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November
Suspected Chinese-government-linked threat actors have been battering a maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day vulnerability in some Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances for nearly a month, and there's no timeline for a fix.…
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns
interview No good idea - like rewarding open source software developers and maintainers for their contributions - goes unabused by cybercriminals, and this was the case with the Tea Protocol and two token farming campaigns.…
Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists
In today's episode of "Amazon Kremlinology," AWS has put out a press release that shows a significant shuffle of one of AWS's most storied leaders.…