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Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed Thursday that it had been hacked in a $6.3 billion cyber heist that blockchain investigators ar…
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest c…
A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over…
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers.…
James Hopkin reports: The Sault’s police chief says it’s currently unclear how many anonymous tips received by Crime Stoppers locally were potentially exposed …
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-dr…
Hetzner says customers using PXE boot should hold off on server restarts.
Some Apache Kafka servers could accept a made-up identity and give an attacker access as that user.
John Rupolo reports: University of New Mexico Health is addressing concerns after a cyberattack on Monday, with reports surfacing this week that a ransomware g…
Eric Weiss reports: The Florida Department of Education says a breach of its student financial aid website may have exposed personal information, including Soc…
One cyber firm listed a half-dozen exploitations of the PHP2Shell bugs, and another identified a well targeted, suspected Chinese campaign that breached U.S. "…
Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guid…
Lukas Brandt writes: Criminals using the Amadey malware lost control of about 180,000 infected computers after operators from the Australian Signals Directorat…
Kalleigh Lane reports: If your school district used Frontline Central or School Health Management, your Social Security number, date of birth, or government ID…
General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 36 state attorneys general who alleged the company unlawfully sold inform…
David DiMolfetta reports: Searchable records identifying more than 41,000 current and former Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors were pub…
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trust…
A newly identified advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-11473 was observed exploiting CVE-2026-20127, an authentication-bypass flaw in Cisco C…
"No data was extracted,” a spokesperson for BAE Systems, a federal contractor, told Recorded Future News about its probe into a cyberattack against its systems…
A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's …
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Cla…
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security f…
AI agents can control authenticated browsers, interact with corporate applications, and access sensitive data while appearing to act as legitimate employees. K…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug that at…