Category: CYBER SECURITY

Authorities in Austria and Albania have dismantled a major cryptocurrency investment fraud network accused of stealing more than €50 million from victims around the world.

A widely used WordPress plugin called Quick Page/Post Redirect, installed on more than 70,000 websites, was found to contain a hidden backdoor that could allow attackers to inject arbitrary code.

Sri Lanka is investigating a suspected cyberattack after a payment of about $625,000 meant for the United States Postal Service went missing for several weeks.

GitHub employees moved quickly last month to patch a serious remote code execution vulnerability that could have exposed millions of public and private code repositories.

A 19-year-old dual citizen of the United States and Estonia has been arrested in Finland and is now facing federal charges in the U.S. for allegedly being a key member of the notorious Scattered Spider group.

Vimeo has confirmed that some customer and user data was accessed without authorization after the recent cyberattack involving Anodot.

Canadian authorities have arrested three men accused of operating an “SMS blaster” device that pretended to be a real mobile tower to send phishing text messages directly to nearby phones.

Robinhood customers were targeted in a phishing campaign after attackers abused the company’s account creation process to insert fake security warnings into legitimate emails.

A man accused of carrying out cyberattacks for the Chinese government has been extradited to the United States and could face more than a decade in prison if convicted.

Americans lost a massive $2.1 billion to scams that started on social media in 2025, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission.

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Breeze Cache plugin for WordPress that allows attackers to upload arbitrary files to a server without authentication.

A new report has claimed that China could potentially access 80 to 90 percent of surveillance cameras operating in Ukraine, including cameras mounted on reconnaissance drones, creating a serious security risk during wartime and increasing the chances of drone interception.

France Titres has disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed responsibility for the attack and the theft of citizen data.

Britain’s communications watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into the messaging app Telegram after evidence suggested child sexual abuse material may have been shared on the platform.

A 41-year-old former employee of DigitalMint, Angelo Martino, has pleaded guilty to participating in ransomware attacks tied to the BlackCat (ALPHV) group that targeted U.S. companies in 2023.

Shipping companies with vessels stranded near the Strait of Hormuz are being targeted by fraudulent messages promising safe passage in exchange for cryptocurrency payments.

A new cybersecurity report has revealed that 26 malicious apps managed to infiltrate Apple’s App Store by posing as legitimate cryptocurrency wallets, putting users at serious risk of losing their funds.

Mastodon’s main server, mastodon.social, was disrupted on Monday after being targeted by a distributed denial of service attack, temporarily making the platform difficult or impossible to access for many users.

A major cryptocurrency breach over the weekend has shaken the industry, with hackers stealing more than $290 million from Kelp DAO, a platform designed to generate yield on idle crypto assets.