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Uncle Sam moves to seize $7.7M laundered by North Korean IT worker ring
The US is looking to finally capture the $7.74 million it froze over two years ago after indicting alleged money launderers it claims are behind North Korean IT worker schemes.…
Your ransomware nightmare just came true – now what?
Feature So, the worst has happened. Computer screens all over your org are flashing up a warning that you've been infected by ransomware, or you've got a message that someone's been stealing information from your server.…
Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending
The UK government employs just 15 commercial staff with direct expertise in digital procurement dedicated to dealing with the largest technical suppliers, according to a Parliamentary spending watchdog.…
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination
Jared Isaacman, former NASA Administrator nominee, has shared how the US space agency might have looked under his leadership and blamed his connections with Elon Musk for the abrupt withdrawal of his nomination.…
Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares reader-contributed tales of tech support terror and triumph.…
European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan
European leaders on Thursday announced an International Digital Strategy designed to help the bloc address technological change at a time of global political realignment.…
Toshiba realises it can build, power, and maintain datacenters – so builds a team to do it all
Japanese industrial giant Toshiba has created an internal organization to make itself more attractive to datacenter builders and operators.…
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to deliver strong revenue and margin growth, and the company expects demand for AI hardware will do likewise in coming years.…
Japan's latest Moon landing looks to have failed after ispace probe goes dark
Japanese firm ispace’s latest attempt to land a craft on the Moon appears to have failed, after its Hakuto-R lander, dubbed Reliance, went dark while approaching the lunar surface.…
Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on RedLine dev and Russia-backed cronies
The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov.…
AT&T not sure if new customer data dump is déjà vu
AT&T is investigating claims that millions of its customers' data are listed for sale on a cybercrime forum in what appears to be a re-release from an earlier hack.…
Senate dishes out second helping of SAMOSA to kill costly software licenses
Sloppy government software licensing practices are back on the menu in the US Senate. …
Trump official warns they're putting the squeeze on CHIPS Act winners
Chipmakers waiting on billions of dollars of CHIPS Act funding should be prepared to return to the negotiating table, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested during a Senate hearing this week.…
Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption
Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices.…
Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’
Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president's proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency.…
Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week speculated that “most people” would have assumed Artificial General Intelligence had arrived if they'd they seen ChatGPT in action before its arrival in 2020.…
Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line
Elon Musk has publicly broken with Donald Trump over the latter's budget reconciliation bill, calling it a "pork-filled … abomination" that would undermine the work his DOGE cost-cutting unit has done. But the bill also hits close to Tesla tycoon's pocketbook, and at least one expert thinks it spells terrible news for the US electric vehicle industry overall.…
BidenCash busted as Feds nuke stolen credit card bazaar
Uncle Sam has seized 145 domains tied to BidenCash, the notorious dark web market that trafficked in more than 15 million stolen credit cards.…
AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code.…
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user
Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands on malicious code.…