Cyberattack, Legal News, News
August 13, 2026
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Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals

The Record reports: The Trump administration will allow private companies to launch attacks on cybercrime organizations, according to a presidential memorandum released late on Wednesday.  The firms will partner with the Justice and Homeland Security departments on offensive operations and surveillance targeting “transnational cybercrime, fraud, and other predatory schemes against American citizens.” “By partnering with vetted United […]

Data Breach News, Cyberattack, News
August 01, 2026
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Water and wastewater systems in seven states have now been attacked

A Public Service Announcement from the FBI: Alert: I-073026-PSA | 30 JULY 2026 Malicious Cyber Actors Targeting Water and Wastewater Sector Internet-Facing Programmable Logic Controllers, Causing Operational Disruptions INTRODUCTION The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators […]

Critical Infrastructure, Cyberattack, Data Breach News, News
July 30, 2026
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Coordinated Cyberattack Targets 30+ Minnesota Water Systems as One Plant Goes Offline

The Hacker News reports: A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems on July 26 and 27, triggering a statewide cybersecurity response. Braham, Plymouth, South St. Paul and Maple Plain have publicly described a plant outage, communications failures or affected automated controls. Braham‘s water plant went offline, and the […]

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 […]