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The personal data of at least 68,000 people was reportedly exposed in breaches of at least seven financial institutions, with officials saying they believe a C…
Eduard Kovacs reports: The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor over a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of bureau employees, Reute…
Osaka Metropolitan University said on Tuesday that the outage left its internal network, email and a range of administrative and academic systems unavailable.
CERT-UA found fake Cloudflare verification pages that led visitors into a now-familiar ClickFix trap. This time the goal was to infect machines with an infoste…
JiJi reports: Japanese police have captured a Russian national believed to be a key member of the “Qilin” international hacker group and extradited him to Germ…
Rescana’s new report on a breach affecting the Denmark Central Person Register (CPR) summarizes the situation: On October 5, 2026, Danish authorities publicly …
Sarah Butler reports: ASOS is investigating after users of its mobile app received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” the online fashion r…
The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful …
Over the weekend, Japanese publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that unknown attackers recently breached two employee email accounts and used one to send thousand…
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of device…
OpenSSL issued fixes on Sep 29, 2026 for an OpenSSL vulnerability that can send unrelated program memory to another party during secure connection setup.
Beyond the potential misuses of its services, Wikimedia said activity by AI agents can be a drain on web platforms that are already operating with limited reso…
Saif al-Din Khader is cooperating with the FBI, reports said, as the bureau responds to a massive breach that exposed employee data.
Ukraine’s largest grocery store chain, ATB, confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack after hackers posted an extortion demand on its website.
A ransomware attack that affected the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine resulted in the theft of some information from its servers.
Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) is warning of a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 8.8 million registered individua…
Colombia’s largest health-promoting entity, Nueva EPS, has allegedly been hacked by an individual demanding $15 million not to leak the data. Colombia’s health…
South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) held an emergency meeting following a series of cyberattacks targeting financial institutions in the country.…
A blank field. A public repo. One reply to an email. A box left exposed. None of this sounds dramatic, which is partly the problem. This week’s threats keep fi…
Seen on Homeland Security Today: FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as …
Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi report that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s second-largest brokerage and investment banking firm, is responding to a breach at one…
Luis Monzon reports: Ransomware-as-a-service group The Gentlemen threatened to leak data belonging to insurance companies LegalWise and Samwumed, with more Sou…
Lee Hyo-jin reports: President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday ordered a thorough investigation into a string of recent data breaches at financial institutions, as art…
The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, has been responding to a security incident since September 3. On October 2, Kairos threat acto…