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Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others
Exclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers.…
OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias
OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…
Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI
ai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.…
Ransomware crims that exploited SharePoint 0-days add Velociraptor to their arsenal
The ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents.…
Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet
Five former members of Kyndryl's internal IT security team have sued the IBM spinoff alleging that they were terminated as part of a campaign targeting employees based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and whistleblowing activities.…
Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls
The US Senate has passed a provision that would give US firms first dibs on advanced chips, just as China tightens customs checks on Nvidia GPUs, leaving the company caught between competing policies across the Pacific.…
Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing
Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.…
Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot
Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest.…
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap
Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…
Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…
Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries
Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity
NASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…
Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America
Microsoft 365 services toppled over in North America last night due to an infrastructure misconfiguration.…
UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search
The UK's competition watchdog has officially slapped Google with "strategic market status," a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the search giant runs its empire.…
Former UK prime minster Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic
Rishi Sunak is ready to kick-start his career with a couple of openings in the tech industry, a year after the end of his internship as the prime minister of the world's sixth-largest economy.…
Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz
US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…
UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details
UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…
Microsoft hypes PCs with NPUs, still can't offer a good reason to buy one
Comment Microsoft has talked up the role played by neural processing units (NPUs) in making Windows more "intelligent," even though the silicon is not currently on the hardware requirements list.…
Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories from the frontlines of tech support.…
RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device
A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers, and other network devices, and then infect the buggy gear with malware.…