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Debra Ahmed reports: An unprotected database linked to India-based AI software development and IT services company Vibetech exposed 13.7 million records contai…
A cyberattack on Britain’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) stole far older and broader records than the government previously disclosed.
A long-running Traffic Distribution System (TDS) known as Help TDS to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka, which appears to be a rebrand of a t…
Guru Baran reports: Ransomware gangs are moving beyond locked files and stolen data. Criminals now threaten employees, executives, and their families to force …
Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data …
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sa…
The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, acco…
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached…
The majority of Linux breaches don't begin at root.
Audrey Liza M. Nolasco reports: Japan is confronting a mounting cybersecurity crisis, with a ransomware attack disrupting hundreds of organisations and a serie…
AI-powered penetration testing can uncover complex attack paths, but safety restrictions and network limitations leave many assets and vulnerabilities untested…
Customers of Russian travel website Anywayanyday were unable to book tickets or hotel rooms as the company responded to a cyberattack.
Bojan Lepic reports: A cyber extortion group has threatened to publish data it claims it stole from 38 shipping, port, and logistics companies unless they pay …
Luis Monzon reports: Ampath Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, has been hit by a cyberattack, with the attacker claiming …
An Ohio-based company charged individuals thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams, but the operation itself was fraudulent, according to a Federal Trade…
TFG London detected a cybersecurity incident that impacted IT systems used by the Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles premium fashion brands.…
The new research, published by AI security startup AIR, found that a network filtering flaw in Vercel Sandbox — a tool used to run code in isolated environment…
Attackers continue exploiting gaps in MFA coverage, using stolen credentials to access VPNs, RDP, and Windows systems that still rely on passwords alone. Speco…
One of St. Petersburg's major internet providers said its network had been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since October 6, affecting servi…
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Xandr, an advertising unit owned by Microsoft, €8.6 million ($9.62 million) for illegally relaying Gri…
UpGuard provides another entry for our “No need to hack when it’s leaking” files. This time, it’s Liberating Research. On August 31, Greg Pollock from UpGuard …
The South African retail giant The Foschini Group (TFG) disclosed a cyberattack that disrupted IT systems at three of its British fashion brands, leaving some …
Back in the day, when my co-author and I would conduct training workshops on neurobehavioral disorders in children and teens, we would always introduce our pre…
The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance…