> TODAY'S SUMMARY (13 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights significant threats and trends in the cybersecurity landscape. A major cyber heist at French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions amounting to $133 million, showcasing the risks posed by service provider vulnerabilities. Additionally, scammers are exploiting trusted brands through fake gift card schemes to harvest personal information, emphasizing the need for consumer vigilance. The rise in hacks targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices has raised alarms about critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, SonicWall has issued patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including a serious SSL-VPN authentication bypass flaw that has already been exploited. Lastly, sensitive credentials, such as passwords and API keys, have been found exposed in public GitHub repositories, highlighting the persistent issue of poor security practices among developers.
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Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports have linked to the FBI's ongoing crackdown on the ShinyHunters hacking group. [...]
Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No malware payload, no locked files, just phone calls and social engineering aimed almost entirely at law firm...
The cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month were launched by a Chinese hacker using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents. [...]
Details of the case align with the investigation into ShinyHunters’ attack on FBI IT systems.
The post Canadian cybersecurity executive arrested in federal extortion case appeared first on CyberScoop.
Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP introduces AITEM, an AI-powered approach that connects exposure discovery with investigation, risk prioritization, and response. [...]
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.
The post Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can on...
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites.
The AI company said it identified four broad categories...
The Traffic Light Protocol (TLP)[1], which is now in its second incarnation, is a wonderful standard that enables one to easily communicate whether information may be shared further (and if so, how far).
Multiple security issues were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed document files are processed. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in
Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a dark web marketplace can become a major criminal business, bringing together drug trafficking, stolen c...
Raheim Hamilton, 30, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a drug conspiracy charge and agreed to forfeit more than $100 million worth of Bitcoin and several properties in Virginia.
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSec...
Un incident présumé a perturbé les paiements de factures de services publics via CUSI (Continental Utility Solutions Inc.), une société basée en Arkansas. L'incident, qui a débuté le 10 octobre 2026, a bloqué l'accès aux comptes et forcé les clients dans plusieurs États (Texas, Illinois, Californie,...
Les Seetelhotels, situés sur Usedom, ont été victimes d'une cyberattaque par ransomware. L'incident a été détecté le week-end du 10 octobre 2026 et le système a été immédiatement isolé. Une enquête forensique est actuellement menée pour déterminer l'étendue de l'attaque et si des données personnelle...
New mutt packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.
Une cyberattaque a été confirmée contre le centre de commandement des pompiers de Wolsfeld (Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm). Les hackers ont réussi à accéder à plusieurs ordinateurs. L'incident a été découvert lorsqu'un responsable a reçu une notification de serveur hors ligne. Les équipements affectés ont...
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information.Â
This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with ICE, and then attempted data-driven purge...