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Like whitebox servers, rent-a-crew crime 'affiliates' have commoditized ransomware
Interview There's a handful of cybercriminal gangs that Jason Baker, a ransomware negotiator with GuidePoint Security, regularly gets called in to respond to these days, and a year ago only one of these crews — Akira — was on threat hunters' radars and infecting organizations with the same ferocity as it is today.…
Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine
Talks are underway between European leaders and Eutelsat about a possible replacement for Starlink in Ukraine.…
Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow
Following protracted negotiations, French outsourcer Atos has scooped up a £474.4 million ($612 million) contract without competition to build systems for a UK state bank at nearly three times the annual rate initially advertised three years ago.…
Glitchy taxi tech blew cover on steamy dispatch dalliance
On Call The week has ebbed away with embarrassing speed, so here we are again with a fresh installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that immortalizes tech support stories.…
Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty
A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines.…
SpaceX's ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now
SpaceX’s latest attempt to fly its Starship has again ended in a rapid unscheduled disassembly.…
Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least, after the company announced a big majority of its top 10,000 customers have decided to acquire its Cloud Foundation stack and posted strong growth.…
Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over
For the second time this week, a privately operated spacecraft has touched down on the Moon – but this one landed badly.…
The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids
Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the remote-controllable Badbox malware, and as many as a million infected Android devices running it to form a massive botnet.…
International cops seize ransomware crooks' favorite Russian crypto exchange
A coalition of international law enforcement has shut down Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, a favorite of now-defunct ransomware crew Conti and others criminals for money laundering.…
Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results
It was inevitable, really, but now it's official: Google is testing a new all-AI web search mode that leaves users entirely beholden to what Gemini thinks they'll want. …
Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens
The US government's Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is considering monitoring not just the social media posts of non-citizens coming into the country, but also all those already in America going through an immigration or citizenship process.…
JetZero teams up with Delta to drag aviation into the future
Airlines around the world continue to look for ways to be more sustainable and efficient without needing to reinvent the wheel – but in the case of Delta Air Lines' new partnership with JetZero, reinventing the wing is definitely on the table.…
Google Chrome Enterprise boosts business profile branding
Google Chrome Enterprise is rolling out browser changes designed to separate people's professional and personal activities, in addition to management enhancements.…
Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI 'Manhattan Project' and get MAIM'd
ANALYSIS Former Google chief Eric Schmidt says the US should refrain from pursuing a latter-day "Manhattan Project" to gain AI supremacy, as this will provoke preemptive cyber responses from rivals such as China that could lead to escalation.…
Still can't get to your Outlook mailbox? You aren't alone
Problems with Outlook.com are continuing, with users reporting being unable to access their emails or authenticate themselves.…
Toronto Zoo ransomware crooks snatch decades of visitor data
Toronto Zoo's final update on its January 2024 cyberattack arrived this week, revealing that visitor data going back to 2000 had been compromised.…
Up to $75M needed to address rural hospital cybersecurity
It will cost upward of $75 million to address the cybersecurity needs of rural US hospitals, Microsoft reckons, as mounting closures threaten the lives of Americans.…
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies
More science instruments are being shut down on the Voyager probes as engineers attempt to eke out the power and keep them running for years to come.…
Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players
Britain's competition regulator is facing biting criticism from local cloud providers for declining to act on Committed Spend Agreements (CSAs), the sales tools that AWS and Microsoft use to lure customers.…