Cyberattack, Critical Infrastructure, Data Breach News
June 21, 2026
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Panic in Brazil after hacker triggers nationwide mobile alert

News AZ reports: Brazil’s government is investigating a suspected cyberattack after a bizarre, unauthorized emergency alert woke citizens across multiple states early Saturday morning. The country’s National Protection and Civil Defense Secretariat confirmed that the national notification system was completely shut down around 1:30 a.m. local time, News.Az reports, citing Reuters. The emergency shutdown was triggered immediately after […]

Cyberattack, News
June 05, 2026
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NSA is using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks

Financial Times reports: Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, embedding engineers inside the agency despite an ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon.   The San Francisco-based company had installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide […]

Cyberattack, Data Breach News, News
May 15, 2026
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Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect Iran is responsible

CNN reports: US officials suspect Iranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple states, according to multiple sources briefed on the activity. The hackers responsible have exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online and unprotected by passwords, allowing them […]

Cyberattack, Education Sector, News
May 12, 2026
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Edtech giant Instructure waves white flag, makes deal with ShinyHunters to resolve incident

When education software giant Instructure announced on May 1 that its widely used Canvas software was unavailable as it investigated a data security incident, it suggested the breach was mostly contained. That turned out to be overly optimistic. While the firm posted updates on its site as its services returned to service, the ShinyHunters group that attacked them continued to […]

Cyberattack, News
May 04, 2026
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Cost-cutting use of generative AI could increase cyber-attack risks — study

Lewis Robertson of Heriot-Watt University writes: Newly published research from a leading computer scientist warns that the use of generative AI to design, train, or perform steps within a machine learning system could increase serious risks. Michael Lones, professor at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, has argued in a new paper that generative […]

Cyberattack, Malware Ransomware
April 17, 2026
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Ukrainian emergency services and hospitals hit by espionage malware campaign

The Record reports: Hackers have targeted Ukrainian hospitals and local government bodies in a new espionage campaign using a malware tool dubbed AgingFly, researchers say. Ukraine’s computer emergency response team (CERT-UA) said the activity was carried out by a group tracked as UAC-0247, which launched multiple attacks over the past two months against municipal authorities, clinical hospitals […]

Cyberattack, News
April 06, 2026
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Hacker attacks jump as regional tensions explode

GDN Online reports: Cyber-attacks targeting Bahrain and its Gulf neighbours have skyrocketed eight-fold this month in the wake of the joint US-Israeli military operation against Iran, security experts have warned. Hacktivists aligned with Tehran have dramatically ramped up Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) strikes across the Middle East, capitalising on the chaos of the widening […]

Cyberattack, Miscellaneous News, New Threats, News, Vendor News
March 20, 2026
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Intoxalock Cyberattack Prevented Some Drivers Required to Take Breathalyzer Tests from Starting Their Cars

DysruptionHub reports: A cybersecurity event has disrupted calibration systems at Des Moines, Iowa-based Intoxalock since March 14, leaving some court-ordered ignition-interlock customers unable to complete required service visits and risking compliance penalties, the company said. Intoxalock said it is investigating and posting rolling updates on its public status page. Ignition interlock devices are typically mandated […]

Consumer Alerts, Cyberattack, Vulnerabilities
March 04, 2026
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Consumers: Check Your iOS version now

From the Google Threat Intelligence Group: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1 (released in December 2023). The exploit kit, named “Coruna” by its developers, contained five full iOS exploit chains and a total of […]

Cyberattack, Data Breach News, Europe, News
December 24, 2025
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Pro-Russian hackers claim cyberattack on French postal service

AP reports: A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said Wednesday. After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, French intelligence agency DGSI took over the investigation into the hacking attack, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a […]