Category: CYBER SECURITY

The European Union has imposed tough sanctions on UK-based web-hosting provider Stark Industries and its top executives, CEO Iurie Neculiti and owner Ivan Neculiti, accusing them of supporting Russian state-backed cyber operations and disinformation campaigns.

Crypto exchange giant Coinbase has confirmed that at least 69,461 customers were affected by a months-long data breach, exposing sensitive personal and financial information.

A 19-year-old college student from Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool, stealing sensitive data belonging to tens of millions of students and teachers, and participating in a ransomware extortion scheme.

A critical privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the premium Motors WordPress theme, enabling unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrator accounts and take full control of affected websites.

Mozilla has released emergency security updates to patch two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox that were demonstrated during the Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking competition.

The FBI has issued a new public service announcement warning that cybercriminals are using AI-generated voice deepfakes to impersonate senior U.S. officials in a wave of voice phishing (vishing) and text-based (smishing) attacks that began in April 2025.

Coinbase has disclosed a significant data breach in which cybercriminals, working in coordination with rogue overseas support agents, gained unauthorized access to internal systems and exfiltrated sensitive user data.

Luxury fashion brand Dior has confirmed a cybersecurity breach affecting customers of its Fashion and Accessories division, with reports suggesting that individuals in South Korea and China were among those impacted.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has disclosed a significant data breach that exposed hundreds of sensitive documents online, some of which were indexed by major search engines.

Europol has taken down a criminal group that tricked over 100 people and stole more than €3 million through a fake online investment platform.

U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer has confirmed that hackers stole customer personal data during a cyberattack last month.

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database containing 3,154,239 records linked to PrepHero, a platform that helps high school athletes secure college sports scholarships.

Genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is now alerting millions of customers that they may be eligible to file claims for losses.

Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has seized the server infrastructure of the cryptocurrency exchange eXch, accusing it of facilitating large-scale money laundering through illicit crypto transactions.

Google is adding a powerful new AI-based security feature to Chrome that uses its on-device Gemini Nano model to detect and block tech support scams.

Ascension has confirmed that sensitive personal and health information belonging to over 437,000 patients was exposed in a data breach linked to a former business partner.

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the OttoKit WordPress plugin, allowing them to create rogue administrator accounts on targeted websites.

A new phishing kit called CoGUI has been used to send over 580 million emails between January and April 2025 in an attempt to steal account credentials and payment information from users.

The LockBit ransomware gang has been hacked. Their dark web admin panels were defaced, and hackers leaked their internal database containing sensitive info like Bitcoin addresses, chat logs, and plaintext passwords.