Employees connect nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrency

The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the incident as a potential security breach.
Valve patches recent Steam zero-days, calls turning away researcher 'a mistake'

Valve also updates bug bounty rules to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Chrome devs propose Privacy Sandbox to balance ad targeting and user privacy

New technical spec will allow advertisers to track users in groups and categories, rather than individually.

UK cybersecurity agency warns devs to drop Python 2 due to looming EOL & security risks

NCSC likens companies continuing to use Python 2 past its EOL to tempting another WannaCry or Equifax incident.
Phishing: These are the companies that hackers impersonate when they try to steal your data

Just got an email warning that you are locked out of an important account? It might be cyber criminals trying to trick you.
Open-source spyware makes it on the Google Play Store

Spyware based on two-year-old AhMyth RAT makes past Play Store's scans, despite not being anything special.

US military veterans swindled out of millions by former army employee

Millions of dollars were stolen from those who have served after their PII was taken.
AEMO 'concerned' about nation-state attacks on power grids

Distributed energy resources such a rooftop solar will create 'a fairly wicked supply chain issue'. How will the sector address organisation culture issues as IT and operational ...
A botnet has been cannibalizing other hackers' web shells for more than a year

Neutrino botnet is hijacking servers by taking over other hackers' PHP and Java web shells.

Excel flaw used in cyberattack

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