The FBI has declared the security breach of its surveillance system by suspected Chinese hackers a major cyber incident with potential national security implications.
While Anthropic has attempted to contain the leak damage with takedown requests, the AI agent's code unsurprisingly spread like wildfire and is now essentially available to anyone willing to look for it. One early development has been promises of the source code as bait via malicious advertisements, but a number of other security and business competition risks loom.
It’s easy to see why network admins are often compared to superheroes – they go above and beyond offering infrastructural eyes and ears, responding rapidly to threats, and providing the backbone of modern business operations.
Hasbro, an American toy manufacturing and entertainment giant, has taken its systems offline following a cyber attack that affected its corporate network in late March.
A security breach at the European Commission has enabled a threat actor to steal hundreds of gigabytes of data from its Amazon cloud infrastructure used to manage the Europa.eu web platform.
A group of hackers widely believed to be supported by Iran's government breached a personal email account belonging to FBI director Kash Patel, which contained material dating from 2010 to 2019. The hackers claimed this was in retaliation for recent FBI operations against them.
A data leak at Lloyds Banking Group stemming from an IT glitch exposed the personal information of nearly half a million customers, enabling them to see each other’s transactions.
As to the apocalyptic "Q-Day" end to every security standard that keeps the internet and cryptographic secrets functioning, the timeline is still not clear. Sooner is obviously better than later in terms of encryption transition, but Google's announcement surprised many who have been working in the quantum computing field.
Fraudsters used Nordstrom’s official email system to promote a crypto scam promising to double funds sent to the scammers’ wallet addresses as a St. Patrick’s Day giveaway.
Armed forces would prefer to keep the exact locations of their assets secret as they come within striking range of hostile forces. Just one soldier using a fitness app or tracking device can out this location if their fitness results are automatically posted to a public profile.
