HackRead reports: ShinyHunters, the notorious group of hackers, has issued a final warning to roughly 400 organizations, claiming to have successfully broken into their private records. The group is threatening to leak this sensitive information onto the internet unless their extortion demands are met. According to previous research firm Mandiant, the hackers are specifically targeting websites […]
The Washington Post reports: The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog isinvestigating a complaint that alleges a former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer — a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing diplomatic, law enforcement and national security agencies to dismantle cybercriminal outfits. The order frames cybercrime groups, including Southeast Asian romance-scam farms and ransomware gangs, as transnational criminal organizations. It directs the Attorney General to give priority to prosecutions of cyber-enabled fraud and compels the […]
The Department of Justice announced yesterday the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools. According to an affidavit unsealed on March 3, the LeakBase forum had over 142,000 members and more than 215,000 messages between members. Available on the […]
TechCrunch reports: A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online. On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and more than 6,000 companies, including defense contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Negligence Stirring Rise in Cyber Incidents
DigitNews reports: Two fifths (42%) of organisations reported an increase in malicious insider incidents over the past year, with the same amount reporting a rise in negligent incidents for the first time. This is according to Mimecast’s State of Human Risk Report, which found that this parity marks a fundamental shift in enterprise security where international […]