Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority's employees into an office...
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough. A familiar repo. A useful installer. A harmless sync setting. Then the handoff goes bad, the box starts talking to someone else, and the damage moves faster than the explanation. Old bugs are back, weak defaults are earning...
Legacy systems, safety concerns, and critical infrastructure risks make OT vulnerability disclosure one of cybersecurity's most challenging balancing acts. The post Legacy Systems, Real-World Impacts: The Reality of OT Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
n8n, the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than one external token issuer, it matched an incoming JWT to a local user on the sub claim alone and ignored iss. A valid token from issuer A carrying...
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were prosecuted over a 2024 cyberattack targeting Transport for London (TfL). The post Two Scattered Spider Hackers Sentenced to Jail in UK appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI infrastructure introduces new security risks that traditional data center designs were never built to handle. The post AI Data Centers Are Being Built Faster Than They Can Be Secured appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that's been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. "The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular," Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said in a...
The new macOS malware has targeted at least 100 users to steal their passwords and cryptocurrency. The post ‘ClickLock Stealer’ Bypasses macOS Security With Social Engineering, Process Killing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim's refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a fake system dialog, and when the victim cancels, installs two LaunchAgents and...
The startup has built an AI-powered Identity Operating System that governs all identities across an organization’s environment. The post Oak Emerges From Stealth Mode With $60 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cyber Advisors are offering free 30-minute consultations to help small businesses get started with cyber security.
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before being notified by KrebsOnSecurity....
New advisory highlights Russian state cyber actors’ global exploitation of poorly configured routers
An alternate path to Cyber Essentials Plus certification, without compromising the integrity of the scheme.
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform...
Why the UK is pioneering an initiative to develop a national scale, sovereign defence capability
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks...
Pen testers suggest what organisations can do to make their job more difficult.