happy new year! i’m back on the cybersecurity desk at The Register from tomorrow, pls send me your tips & scoops (signal/email in bio)
Carly Page
@carlypage.bsky.social
Journalist & copywriter with 10+ years covering the tech industry, formerly senior cybersecurity reporter at TechCrunch. Bylines include IT Pro, LeadDev, The Register, The Telegraph, TIME, WIRED, & more. ☎️ Signal: carly.44 ✉️ carlypagewrites@gmail.com
Good morning! Last night @greenarcher.io released the newest issue of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar! Details about why I created this issue (edited by the extremely talented @carlypage.bsky.social) are in our newsletter. But, I wanted to tell you about the hacking group featured in this comic…
The Gr33n H0rm3tz Matter!
Just in time for the holiday, treat yourself to an all new Johnny Dollar adventure (stay tuned for a special offer)!
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Great story from colleague @carlypage.bsky.social Defra is department which made vets buy old laptops on eBay because it was the only way to access the system which recorded bovine TB
The Register@theregister.com · 9mo agoUK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support
Cops have seized the latest incarnation of Breach Forums, which had become the public-facing leak shop for Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest extortion campaign. The group claims the takedown has "no impact" on its planned leak of ~1 billion Salesforce records www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/c...
Cops seize Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' BreachForums domain
: US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce
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From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/h...
HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data
: Agency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers
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Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/a...
Alarms and timers KO’d in UK outage
: Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon’s AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms
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Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/l...
Russia blamed for US court hack and Norwegian dam drama
: Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates
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re-sharing as i'm on The Reg cyber desk a bunch over the next few weeks - send me your tips!
Carly Page@carlypage.bsky.social · last yr.news! i'm going to be doing some shifts on the cybersecurity desk at The Register. if you've got any tips/scoops/spicy stories, send them my way - Signal & email in bio. ty!
can't believe The Reg are already letting me get away with headlines like this www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/e...
Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu
Updated: French fashion house dishes out notices after hackers raided a client database – ShinyHunters suspected
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news! i'm going to be doing some shifts on the cybersecurity desk at The Register. if you've got any tips/scoops/spicy stories, send them my way - Signal & email in bio. ty!
hello! 👋 after being made redundant from TechCrunch, I took some much-needed time to hang out with my daughter, touch grass, and briefly forget how to write. good news: I think I’ve remembered, so do get in touch if you're looking for a tech journalist/writer/editor/mix of the above
some ✨personal news✨ i've been redundant and it's my last week at TechCrunch. i’m going to be returning to the world of freelance, so if you need an experienced tech journalist / copywriter / editor / or a mix of the above, please get in touch carlypagewrites@gmail.com
In a statement, Apple told me that it took action against fewer than 250 iCloud users that were affected by the breach at SpyX. Apple said when data breaches at other companies pose a risk to its customers, its security teams investigate & take action. More: techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/d...
Exclusive: Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users
Another consumer-grade spyware operation was hacked in June 2024, which exposed thousands of Apple Account credentials.
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NEW: North Korea is reportedly launching a new cybersecurity research unit called Research Center 227, which will be housed within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and will focus on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets. techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/n...
North Korea launches new unit with a focus on AI hacking, per report | TechCrunch
North Korea is reportedly launching a new cybersecurity unit called Research Center 227 within its intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).
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Hackers are ramping up attempts to exploit a trio of year-old ServiceNow vulnerabilities to break into unpatched company instances techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/h...
Hackers are ramping up attacks using year-old ServiceNow security bugs to target unpatched systems | TechCrunch
Threat intelligence startup GreyNoise says it has observed a ‘notable resurgence’ in attack activity
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The Pennsylvania State Education Association says hackers stole the sensitive personal and financial information of more than half a million of its members. PSEA said it “took steps” to ensure the stolen data was deleted, suggesting it paid a ransom demand techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/u...
US teachers' union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members | TechCrunch
PSEA says it "took steps to ensure" its stolen data was deleted, suggesting a ransom demand was paid
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NEW, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Citizen Lab have named several countries, including Canada, as potential customers of Paragon's Graphite spyware, weeks after WhatsApp notified 90 users — including a journalist and human rights defenders — that their devices were targeted by the Israeli-made spyware.
Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers | TechCrunch
The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.
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CISA is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/c...
CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs 'unlawful' | TechCrunch
Federal court rules U.S. cybersecurity agency must re-hire over 100 former employees
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Security researchers say hackers linked to the notorious LockBit gang are exploiting a pair of Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware on company networks techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/h...
Hackers are exploiting Fortinet firewall bugs to plant ransomware | TechCrunch
Security researchers say that a threat actor it calls Mora_001 has ‘close ties’ to the Russia-linked hacking group
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New, by me: Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist posts resurfaced (and was rehired soon after), violated Treasury rules when he sent an unencrypted email containing personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials. techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/d...
DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data | TechCrunch
Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.
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NEW: @journalistjagmeet.com confirmed that Indian police have arrested co-founder of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex Aleksej Besciokov. Police said arrest was under extradition law, suggesting it was on behalf of U.S. authorities who indicted Besciokov with money laundering crimes.
Garantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law | TechCrunch
Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India's Kerala on Tuesday under the country's extradition law.
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NEW by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: North Korean-linked hackers uploaded Android spyware to Google Play. The spyware, which collects an “extensive amount” of sensitive data, was downloaded more than 10 times before Google removed it, according to Lookout techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/n...
North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity firm Lookout found several samples of a North Korean spyware it calls KoSpy.
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the new yorker has proudly updated its style guidelines to get rid of anachronisms like "web site," "in box," and "the Internet." techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/t...
The New Yorker has finally embraced modernity | TechCrunch
When the first email was sent in 1971, Richard Nixon was president. The video game "Pong" was still in development. The Pittsburgh Pirates were a good
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Elon Musk’s DOGE has fired more than a hundred employees working for the CISA, including “red team” employees, two people affected by the layoffs confirmed to TechCrunch One of the affected employees said they are now looking for “DOGE-resistant gigs” techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/d...
DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ amid ongoing federal cuts | TechCrunch
Affected staff say more than 100 employees working to protect U.S. government networks were ‘axed’ with no prior warning
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A hacker compromised PowerSchool months before its massive data breach in December. The hacker used the same compromised credentials used in the December breach to access PowerSchool’s network in August, according to CrowdStrike techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/h...
Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach | TechCrunch
CrowdStrike says a hacker had access to PowerSchool's internal system as far back as August.
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NEW: After authorities took down the domains of Russian crypto exchange's Garantex, and charged two of its administrators for facilitating money laundering, the company is now inviting customers for “face-to-face meetings” at its headquarters. 🤔 techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/f...
Following takedown operation, Garantex invites customers to 'face-to-face' Moscow meeting | TechCrunch
Russian crypto exchange Garantex has yet to directly address the international law enforcement operation that resulted in the seizure of its domains, and criminal charges against two of its administra...
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NEW: The U.S. government has accused two administrators of Russian crypto exchange Garantex of facilitating money laundering for terrorists and cybercriminals. Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda allegedly knew they were helping ransomware hackers as well as DPRK's Lazarus Group.
US charges admins of Garantex for allegedly facilitating crypto money laundering for terrorists and hackers | TechCrunch
The administrators of Garantex, Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda, allegedly knew their crypto exchange was used to launder money, according to U.S. prosecutors.
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Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications says hackers stole the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack. It’s not yet known how many individuals had personal data stolen or who was behind the NTT breach techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/j...
Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations | TechCrunch
Unidentified hackers breached NTT Com’s network to steal personal information of employees at thousands of corporate customers
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