FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment The political consultant who admitted paying $150 to create a deepfake anti-Biden robocall has been indicted on charges of felony voter suppression and misdemeanor impersonation of a candidate.…

But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared data on the most impersonated companies in 2023, which include Best Buy, Amazon, and PayPal in the top three.…

An open and shut case, but the perps remain at large – whoever they are Justice is served… or should that be saved now that audio-visual software deployed in more than 10,000 courtrooms is once again secure after researchers uncovered evidence that it had been backdoored for weeks.…

We know IT admins have busy schedules but c'mon An improper access control bug in Apache Flink that was fixed in January 2021 has been added to the US government's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, meaning criminals are right now abusing the flaw in the wild to compromise targets.…

ShrinkLocker throws steel and vaccine makers into the hurt locker Updated  Yet more ransomware is using Microsoft BitLocker to encrypt corporate files, steal the decryption key, and then extort a payment from victim organizations, according to Kaspersky.…

Mandiant CTO chats to The Reg about the looming fate of this ransomware crew Interview  The cyberattacks against Las Vegas casinos over the summer put a big target on the backs of prime suspects Scattered Spider, according to Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal.…