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What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia
Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.…
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day
Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it.…
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
London cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir's technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers.…
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops
Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.…
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.…
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.…
ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.…
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.…