Category: CYBER SECURITY

A dual Chinese and St. Kitts and Nevis national has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia for orchestrating a massive international cryptocurrency investment scam, commonly known as a “pig butchering” or romance baiting scheme, that defrauded victims of more than $73 million.

A China-linked threat actor tracked as UNC3886 has breached Singapore’s four largest telecommunications providers — Singtel, StarHub, M1, and Simba — at least once during 2025, according to Singaporean authorities.

The European Commission is investigating a cybersecurity breach after discovering that its mobile device management infrastructure was targeted in a cyberattack.

The mistakenly distributed bitcoin was worth around 44 billion dollars at current market prices.

A highly advanced state-backed hacking group has been quietly breaking into government and critical infrastructure networks around the world, according to a new investigation by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.

A 26-year-old man from Illinois has pleaded guilty to hacking hundreds of women’s Snapchat accounts and stealing private photos that he later kept, sold, or traded online.

Norway has officially accused a Chinese state-linked hacking group of breaking into several organizations inside the country.

Spain’s Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades has partially shut down its IT systems following what it describes as a “technical incident,” disrupting several online services used by citizens, universities, and research institutions.

The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, has fined MediaLab, the owner of Imgur, £247,590 for serious failures in protecting children’s personal information.

A fresh wave of spam is once again flooding inboxes worldwide, with users reporting hundreds of automated emails generated through unsecured customer support portals powered by Zendesk.

Substack has begun notifying some users that their email addresses and phone numbers were exposed in a security incident last year.

Coupang has confirmed a fresh discovery linked to last year’s massive data breach, saying personal information from more than 165,000 customer accounts was exposed.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a five-year-old GitLab vulnerability is now being actively exploited and has ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch affected systems immediately.

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team has warned that Russian state-linked hackers are actively exploiting a recently patched zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office to target government and institutional users.

Notepad++ users may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update after the app’s shared hosting servers were compromised last year, according to a new disclosure from the software’s developer.

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized three U.S.-registered internet domains accused of illegally distributing copyrighted content.

Illegal cryptocurrency activity surged to an all-time high in 2025, reaching an estimated $158 billion, according to a new report from TRM Labs.

A China-based manga piracy network led by Bato.to, one of the world’s largest scanlation platforms, has been forced to shut down after a criminal complaint was filed with Chinese authorities, according to multiple reports.