TechCrunch reports: Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort them by threatening to release stolen files, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. According to the DOJ, Wagenius, who went online with the nickname “kiberphant0m,” conspired to defraud 10 victim companies by stealing their login credentials, using brute […]
The now-removed posts, which were shared on the character’s official X account on Sunday, called for violence against Jews. NBC reports: Sesame Workshop said the X account for its beloved fuzzy, red monster Elmo was compromised by an “unknown hacker” who made antisemitic and racist posts to its official account on Sunday. The posts, which […]
A huge Ministry of Defence leak in 2022 is first being revealed in detail after a superinjunction was lifted. The Independent reports: A huge Ministry of Defence data breach put the lives of up to 100,000 at risk and prompted thousands of Afghans to be evacuated to Britain under a covert £7bn scheme – then was kept secret […]
Major retailers remain vulnerable to attacks by ransomware gangs. The same gang thought to be involved in the Marks & Spencer attack has now claimed another victim. Security Week reports: The DragonForce ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a disruptive cyberattack on US department store chain Belk. The incident was identified on May 8 and […]
Recorded Future reports: The federal cybersecurity watchdog ordered all civilian agencies to immediately patch a vulnerability impacting several NetScaler products used by organizations to manage network traffic. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the bug — tracked as CVE-2025-5777 — to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities on Thursday afternoon but took the extraordinary step […]
Cyber Magazine reports: McDonald’s job applicants had their personal information exposed when security researchers accessed 64 million records through basic password attacks on the McHire platform. The breach occurred through vulnerabilities in systems operated by AI software firm Paradox.ai, which provides chatbot technology to screen candidates for the fast-food chain. Security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam […]
There has been a veritable explosion of new ransomware and extortion gangs this year. You may never have heard of Arkana, but there seems to be some link to the Qilin gang. gbhackers reports: The Arkana ransomware group burst onto the cybercrime scene with a high-profile attack on WideOpenWest (WOW!), a prominent U.S. internet service […]
Reuters reports law enforcement in the UK has arrested four young people believed to be part of the Scattered Spider group that crippled high-end retailers earlier this year: Four people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into cyberattacks that disrupted the operations of retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods, Britain’s […]
SecurityAffairs reports: Benefits and payroll solutions firm Kelly Benefits has confirmed that a recent data breach has affected 550,000 individuals. As the investigation continued, the scale of the impact expanded, revealing that more people were affected than initially believed. The U.S.-based company provides benefits, payroll, and workforce management solutions to businesses. In April, Kelly Benefits disclosed a data breach where […]
A third luxury brand owned by LVMH has announced that they were the victim of a cyberattack affecting customer data.. The Economic Times reports: Louis Vuitton has become the latest luxury brand in South Korea to suffer a data breach, according to the company on Friday, following recent similar cases involving Dior, Tiffany and Cartier in the […]
