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Binance’s $6.3bn heist: how one laptop opened the door to the biggest crypto theft in history
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has confirmed that attackers stole an estimated $6.3 billion (around £4.7 billion)…
Your Ring Doorbell Could Miss Trick-or-Treaters — Check These Settings Before Halloween
Before trick-or-treaters arrive, check your Ring Doorbell motion zones to reduce unwanted alerts and make sure visitors are detected along your walkway.
Syrian Electronic Army hacker gets prison time for attacks on Western targets
Ahmad Umar Agha, known online as “Th3Pr0,” was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Virginia to 42 months behind bars for his role in a conspiracy that…
Top cybersecurity conferences to attend in 2027
AI, global conflict and supply chain security are likely to be top of mind at many of the year’s big events.
Politicians in U.S. and E.U. Say Targeted Ads Are a Security Risk
Politicians in Europe and the U.S. are speaking out against the use of advertising technology to infect targets with zero-click spyware.
Hackers Use Cursor and Claude AI to Automate Attacks in Aur0ra Ransomware Operations
The GOLD OGRE cybercrime group is using AI coding agents, including Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude, to automate intrusions for Aur0ra ransomware (Aurora).…
China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a campaign by China-linked threat actors who successfully compromised two servers at a US government-affiliated…
Genesys Hack Exposes Customer Data From Internal Systems
Genesys, a California-based provider of customer experience and call-center technology, has disclosed a cyberattack in which unauthorized actors accessed…
Tracking AI adoption in North Korean threat actor tradecraft
As Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track how threat actors operationalize AI to increase the speed and efficiency of attacks, we’ve identified…
Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors
A malicious version of Anthropic’s Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor’s extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on…
Attacker Relentlessly Scans for Credentials by Impersonating AI Bots
The threat actor lurked behind bots posing as agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others to find exposed data.
Warp Breach Exposes AI Agent Logs and Telemetry
Warp has disclosed a security incident involving a third party infrastructure vendor that exposed AI agent decision logs and user telemetry. Chief…
Ukrainian Hacker Sentenced for $100M Ransomware
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for his role in a global ransomware campaign that caused an estimated $100…
Moldova Probes Possible Foreign State Involvement in Major Cyberattack Exposing Government Data
The Moldovan authorities are looking into whether the large cyber attack, which caused sensitive personal data to be breached and dozens of state services…
Cisco open sources AI agent behavior detection tool
Cisco has open-sourced Project Quarry, a behavior detection engine designed to monitor AI agents and prevent security incidents by analyzing complete…
French Energy Giant ENGIE Hit by Data Breach, Customer Records Accessed Through Partner Platform
ENGIE, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has notified customers in France that an unauthorized third party accessed their personal data through…
There’s a Security Deal Hiding in Your Customer’s Browser
Discover how the Akamai Workforce Protector Partner Playbook helps you secure browser AI interactions, eliminate data visibility gaps, and close deals.
European and Ecuadorian cooperation leads to 20 arrests in major hit against drug trafficking
The operation, codenamed Operation CANTABRIA, underscores the success of strong cooperation between European and Ecuadorian law enforcement agencies,…
U.S. CISA adds Linux Kernel and Broadcom VMWare ESX flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel and Broadcom VMWare ESX flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…