Apollo discloses data breach from ongoing wave of attacks hitting financial sector
The private equity firm said attackers broke into some of its cloud platforms during a five-day period in early July, compromising sensitive personal data. T...
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Lawmakers seek watchdog review of federal hacking of Americans
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep.
Early 764 member sentenced to 77 years, longest prison term to date for a nihilistic violent extremist
Kyle Spitze led an offshoot of the violent extremist collective and victimized dozens of girls, coercing them to degrade themselves under threats of doxing a...
Retail theft bill spurs ‘very large and very dangerous’ surveillance fears
The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act has won a big House vote and could be on the fast track in the Senate — and supporters say it could help fight cyber...
The push to designate AI as the next critical infrastructure sector
The designation would unlock a range of federal services, tools and resources for an industry that policymakers view as increasingly tied to national and eco...
AI-fueled attacks pose ‘active threat’ to water, other sectors, U.S. agencies warn
The agencies said the hackers are taking aim at Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers in what could be a first. The post AI-fueled attacks pose ‘a...
A California county wants to hire Tina Peters to help run its elections
After her prison sentence for felony election-related crimes was commuted, Peters is poised to once again administer critical election duties. The post A Cal...
The long tail of Clop’s PTC hack is just beginning to emerge
The data theft extortion group likely compromised a critical vulnerability affecting PTC’s product lifecycle management software in June, a month before it s...
Eight years later, federal authorities re-up charges against alleged Iranian hackers at Mabna Institute
The superseding indictment adds defendants and allegations against the Iranian firm accused of a massive cybertheft campaign against foreign universities and...
Medusa ransomware tallies hundreds of new victims, says updated advisory on group’s tactics
The updated warning from the FBI, CISA and HHS draws on a year’s worth of investigations to detail how the group gains initial access and what it does afterw...
Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies
BlackFile’s four affiliate groups are still targeting victims, including medical technology organizations. Several potential victims received new extortion d...
Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for AI sandbox escape incidents
In a post-mortem, the frontier AI testing company said internet access for models is necessary to fully test out their cybersecurity capabilities. The post I...
A bold new strategy or a dangerous precedent? Experts are divided on Trump’s memo.
The “philosophical shift” that the memo authorizes raises legal, practical and moral questions, experts say. The post A bold new strategy or a dangerous prec...
Tech contractor for Brightly Software sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider attack
Cameron Curry stole corporate data and employee information, which he used to threaten the company as his six-month contract gig came to a close. He ultimate...
AI’s ‘middle class’ has gotten dramatically better at hacking
As frontier models and their sandbox escaping exploits dominate front-page news, researchers are increasingly worried about cheaper, more efficient AI models...
Trump turns to private sector in offensive hacking operations memo
One expert called it a “pretty big shift in U.S.
Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan
Israeli cyber firm Dream said the framework adapted mid-operation, corrected its mistakes and expanded as it went along. The post Researchers observe first ‘...
Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say
Months after police seized its servers and arrested an alleged operator, the Kimwolf botnet is running code that disguises attacks as Chrome traffic and fetc...
Federal judge issues second order blocking Trump mail-in voting directive
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Delta investigates in-flight Wi-Fi spoofing on post-DEF CON flight from Las Vegas
The airline deactivated the network after the crew realized someone was messing with the in-flight system. The feds are investigating.