Connor Jones

5 days ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

Community bank MainStreet Bancshares says thieves stole data belonging to some of its customers during an attack on a third-party provider. Showing how vendors along the supply chain are often the weak link, the holding company that primarily oversees MainStreet Bank told America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the snafu on Friday, saying it was made aware of a break-in at the provider back in March.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in a public park. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was the subject of an FBI investigation after law enforcers claim they received a tip that Laatsch had advertised his willingness to transmit intelligence to a "friendly foreign government" back in March.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a Thanksgiving 2023 cyberattack where criminals directly threatened cancer patients with swat attacks. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch) disclosed its November 2023 attack a month later, after it confirmed that criminals had made off with personal and sensitive data, including health insurance information, patients' treatments, diagnoses, lab results, and more.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access. Threat monitoring company GreyNoise discovered the botnet, which it dubbed AyySSHush, back in March and pointed interested onlookers to a Censys search which shows more than 8,000 infected hosts at the time of writing.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable. More than 93.7 billion of them are currently available for criminals to buy online and of those, between 7-9 percent are active, on average, according to NordVPN's breakdown of stolen cookies by country.