~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet: Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. […]
From the Baker Donelson law firm: IBM has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2026. The 21st edition of the report analyzed 602 data breaches experienced by organizations across 17 industries between March 2025 and February 2026. It provides one of the most comprehensive views available of the financial impact of data breaches […]
Fox News reports: Making a few extra dollars online should not put your bank details or identity at risk. Yet that is the concern for people who used Paidwork, an online earnings application. A leaked database tied to the platform reportedly contains information from more than 23 million accounts. If you ever signed up, now […]
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 […]
Variety reports: The Tribeca Festival suffered a data leak that exposed hundreds of thousands of records, as well as the contact information for thousands of celebrities, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and festival co-founder Robert De Niro. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed the leak in an ExpressVPN blog post over the weekend, claiming he’d uncovered a total of […]
More than a dozen dental practices have recently disclosed data breaches. Six of them are dental practices linked to Soniva Dental. Soniva has 14 locations in Texas and Massachusetts, and as of yesterday, six of its Texas locations had notified the Texas Attorney General’s Office of breaches: Soniva Dental’s website is currently offline with a […]
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 […]
Seen on Nvidia’s Blog: Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services by making technology accessible and observable to communities of experts. Cybersecurity is among the top three beneficiaries of open source software. The Open Secure AI Alliance — building […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after obtaining their email addresses from breached company databases. However, the messages appear […]
Bleeping Computer reports: The ShinyHunters extortion gang has claimed responsibility for a recently disclosed Ernst & Young data breach, saying it obtained credentials for some of the company’s systems via a supply-chain attack. Ernst & Young disclosed the breach earlier this month, saying a third-party support ticket system used by its IT personnel was compromised […]
