
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
Cybersecurity Editor at The Register
Cybersecurity Editor @TheRegister / @SitPub Not posting on X but you can find me at Bluesky: @jessicalyons.bsky.social
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2 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
An IT services company, a European media group, and a South Asian government entity are among the more than 75 companies where China-linked groups have planted malware to access strategic networks should a conflict break out. SentinelLABS, the threat intel and research arm of security shop SentinelOne, uncovered these new clusters of malicious activity when the suspected Chinese spies tried to break into SentinelOne's own servers in October.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
Fake IT workers possibly linked to North Korea, Beijing-backed cyber operatives, and Russian malware slingers are among the baddies using ChatGPT for evil, according to OpenAI's latest threat report. The AI giant said it quashed 10 operations using its chatbot to conduct social engineering and cyber snooping campaigns, generate spammy social media content, and even develop a multi-stage malware campaign targeting people and organizations around the globe.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
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.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
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. "It is not uncommon for cybercriminals to re-package previously disclosed data for financial gain," an AT&T spokesperson told The Register.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
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. Cairncross is a former White House advisor from Trump's first term and a former Republican National Committee official.
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RT @iainthomson: Reported this too, and it's a shameful rip off from a good interview by @JessicaHrdcstle. https://t.co/TrkQXe4JlX This k…

This YouTube video plagiarized my story and used a an AI-generated image of @AletheDenis, that is clearly not Alethe. None of this is OK.

Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes https://t.co/wsYs4qSKwi via @theregister