Cyber Security News reports: A Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites while spending an estimated $5,000 on AI tokens, according to a Reuters investigation in October. The operation shows how one person can direct software to carry out complex attacks with little ongoing human input. The targets included […]
CBS News reports: The California Department of Education (CDE) on Friday disclosed the breach involving the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which is under contract to provide state and federally required testing to all students enrolled in the state’s public schools. ETS provides support for the state’s assessment programs, including the California Assessment of Student Performance […]
The Record reports: IT management software company ConnectWise shut down several of its services this weekend after Microsoft and other cybersecurity companies warned of a supply chain attack impacting its cloud backup system. ConnectWise initially said on Friday that it was investigating “attempts of unauthorized access associated with the ConnectWise Cloud Backup environment,” and confirmed […]
ITPro reports: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has banned the use of DeepSeek by civilian federal agencies, citing security concerns. The ban covers any technology built with the aid of the company’s AI models, and applies to agencies including the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, and the Department of Justice, […]
The Register reports on a significant data breach affecting millions of Danes. And yes, the password that reportedly enabled access to the data was “123456.” A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark’s Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company’s account protected by the password “123456.” The person […]
Forbes reports on the massive cyberattack in France where unknown threat actors literally turned up the heat on supermarket refrigeration and freezer units, causing all the food to defrost. In some cases, fires even erupted. The attack, which took place Sunday, impacted hundreds of stores spanning several major supermarket groups, including Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarche and […]
HackRead reports on a third arrest within one month linked to the ShinyHunters investigation. Two of the arrests, including this one, have allegedly been connected to the FBI Jobs hack by ShinyHunters. FBI arrests Cypfer co-founder Edward Dubrovsky, now associated with CyberSteward, in the ShinyHunters investigation into the FBI jobs portal breach. A co-founder of […]
Bleeping Computer reports: IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that caused an outage at a data center cluster serving the eastern part of the country. The company says that the attack started on October 7 at 3:40 AM local […]
This is the kind of press a contractor dreads. Reuters reports that the FBI has removed an Accenture contractor on Monday because its failure to patch a vulnerability in Oracle’s PeopleSoft in a timely manner reportedly allowed the troubling FBI data breach by ShinyHunters. In a statement to Reuters, a senior FBI official confirmed that an unidentified contractor […]
Eastern Eye reports that ASOS customers received a bizarre app notification claiming the fashion retailer had been hacked, with attackers allegedly threatening to leak data unless the company engaged with them. “Dear Asos DPO and IT, we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance,” the message said. “Engage with us, or we will leak it.” It […]
