INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments system recovered an exceptionally large sum of over $40 million, stolen in a single BEC attack, in record time.
A ransomware attack hit the online ticketing platform Vivaticket, disrupting booking services across European museums and monuments.
The 18th installment of the DBIR surveyed 22,052 total cyber attacks logged by Verizon's internal threat research team, over half of which (12,195) involved confirmed data breaches. Credential abuse continues in the lead at 22%. Exploitation of vulnerabilities is now up to 20%, followed by phishing at 16%.
Students are responsible for most school data breaches in the U.K., usually involving compromised, leaked, or weak credentials, setting them up for a life of cybercrime.
New UN report warns that digital welfare technologies used by many governments could be used to “surveil, target, harass and punish” the poor and vulnerable instead.
A security flaw in “Claude in Chrome” enables any Chrome extension, including those without permissions, to execute privileged commands, steal data, and perform agentic actions.
Facebook's sentiment analysis understands the emotions of vulnerable teens and and is giving that data to advertisers to help understand market segments.
CISA published an insight document for critical infrastructure organizations to prepare for the transition to new post-quantum cryptography standards that NIST will announce soon.
Taiwan hardware supplier’s data breach has been traced back to systems integrator Kinmax Technology, which lists a broad variety of tech industry titans as clients: Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft among them.
A data breach stemming from a third-party customer service database has affected European airlines Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
