Luxury brand Louis Vuitton has suffered a cyber attack attributed to ShinyHunters across South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Sweden, leaking personal data.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
A new Russia-based family of malware has been observed using a large language model (LLM) to issue commands on compromised systems in real time, which can potentially improve attacker capability by allowing them to shift tactics during an attack without having to introduce new payloads.
The Salt Typhoon state-sponsored hackers were able to maintain a footing in a state National Guard unit for nine months and use this position to intercept traffic from other national guard networks in all 50 states as well as at least four US territories.
Concerns about reprisal by the Taliban prompted the UK government to secretly grant asylum to thousands of Afghans and allow them to immigrate to the country, in the wake of a 2022 data leak by the Ministry of Defence.
UK retailer The Co-op has confirmed that over 6.5 million people were impacted by the April 2025 data breach, which was loosely attributed to the elusive Scattered Spider cybercriminal gang.
British authorities have slapped the cuffs on four suspects linked to the Marks & Spencer cyber attack that disrupted its Click and Collect services, costing the company over $300 million.
A recent cyber attack on the Canadian electric utility, Nova Scotia Power, disconnected power meters, preventing the company from reading and sending accurate bills.
Business-to-business (B2B) tech distributor Ingram Micro has experienced a system outage due to a ransomware attack, which disrupted its online ordering systems.
The stolen API key allows interaction with at least 52 large language AI models (LLMs) that are in development at Musk's xAI, many of these in turn used by the "Grok" AI available through the X social media platform. An errant GitHub update was to blame.
The McHire AI bot was created by Paradox.ai, which claims that 90% of McDonalds franchisees make use of it in their hiring pipeline. Hacking it apparently did not require any amount of technical knowledge at all, merely trying “123456” as an administrator password.










