Category: CYBER SECURITY

A hacker from the HellCat ransomware group is threatening to leak 106GB of sensitive data allegedly stolen from Telefónica, one of Spain’s largest telecommunications companies.

Spanish police have taken down a massive investment scam that tricked hundreds of people and caused losses of over $11.8 million (€10 million).

The Hunters International ransomware gang has officially shut down its operations and announced it will provide free decryption tools to all previous victims, marking a rare retreat in the cybercrime world.

More than 40 malicious extensions impersonating popular cryptocurrency wallets have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox’s official add-ons store, posing a significant risk to users’ digital assets.

A high-severity vulnerability in the popular Forminator plugin for WordPress, tracked as CVE-2025-6463, could allow attackers to delete arbitrary files and potentially take over entire websites.

Qantas, Australia’s largest airline, has confirmed that a major data breach has exposed the personal information of around six million passengers.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Russian hosting company Aeza Group and four of its top operators, accusing them of operating a "bulletproof hosting" service for cybercriminals, including ransomware groups, infostealer operators, darknet drug markets, and Russian disinformation campaigns.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched an investigation into a “sophisticated and targeted” cyberattack that struck its systems last week.

Australian airline Qantas has disclosed a cyberattack that led to a significant data breach affecting up to 6 million customers.

AT&T has introduced a new feature called Account Lock to help protect wireless users from SIM swapping attacks.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced on Monday that they have arrested and charged several individuals involved in a scheme where North Korean workers posed as remote IT employees to secretly work for over 100 U.S. companies.

A hacker group believed to be connected to Iran is threatening to release more stolen emails tied to U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle.

The Swiss government has confirmed that sensitive information from several federal offices may have been exposed after a ransomware attack targeted Radix, a third-party organization based in Zurich.

The FBI and NSA, along with other U.S. cyber agencies, have issued a serious warning today about possible cyberattacks from hackers linked to Iran.

Spanish police have arrested five people in Madrid and the Canary Islands, accused of helping move and hide around $540 million (€460 million) linked to fake cryptocurrency investment schemes.

Israeli researchers have uncovered a security flaw in some popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini, according to a statement released by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Monday.

Researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in a widely used Bluetooth chipset, putting over two dozen audio devices from major brands such as Bose, Sony, Jabra, JBL, Marshall, and others at risk.

The FBI and top cybersecurity firms are sounding the alarm as Scattered Spider, a notorious hacking group, targets the airline and transportation sectors.

Hawaiian Airlines has confirmed a cybersecurity incident that disrupted some of its IT systems, though flight operations continue as scheduled.

A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE 2024 51978, impacts 689 Brother printer models and 53 additional models from Fujifilm, Toshiba, Konica Minolta, and Ricoh.