The Register reports: South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the digi-cash. This strange story starts on February 26th when the Tax Service triumphantly announced it had busted 124 high-value tax delinquents and seized ₩8.1 billion ($5.6 million) worth […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help […]
Bloomberg reports: A partial government shutdown threatens to further derail a key federal cybersecurity agency’s incident reporting rule—and delay answers that companies need to comply. The Department of Homeland Security shutdown, now entering its third week, may push back the finish line for a Biden-era rule that would create stringent disclosure requirements for critical infrastructure entities after cybersecurity […]
Breaches have consequences. Some more than others. Yonhap News Agency reports the Coupang data breach has taken a significant toll on the firm’s fourth quarter profits: U.S.-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Friday its operating profit plunged 97 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier due to the impact of a large-scale data […]
India Today reports: A serious cybersecurity incident involving AI has put Mexico’s government networks under the spotlight, after hackers allegedly used an AI chatbot to pull off a large-scale data theft. According to a Bloomberg investigation, the attacker relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI to break into official systems, stealing close to 150GB of sensitive data […]
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming to be behind a cyber incident circulated what appears to be patient information to news organisations – an incident that is drawing attention to cyber risk, privacy exposure, and the role of cyber insurance across […]
Dark Reading reports: In 2025, cybercriminals needed less time to move from break-in to lateral movement across a network than it takes to watch a typical sitcom. An analysis by CrowdStrike of threat activity last year found attackers took just 29 minutes on average to pivot to other systems after gaining an initial foothold in […]
Bleeping Computer reports: The ShinyHunters extortion gang has claimed responsibility for breaching Dutch telecommunications provider Odido and stealing millions of user records from its compromised systems. Odido is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the Netherlands and offers mobile, broadband, and television services to millions of customers nationwide. The company disclosed the breach on February 12, […]
Bleeping Computer reports: PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. The incident affected the PayPal Working Capital (PPWC) loan app, which provides small businesses with quick access to financing. PayPal discovered the breach […]
Freedom For All Americans recaps what is known so far about a Conduent Business Solutions data breach that could wind up affecting many more Americans than what has already been disclosed: A cyber intrusion inside Conduent stretched for nearly 3 months, from October 21, 2024, to January 13, 2025, and ended up pulling personal and […]
