MathWorks, the developer of the widely used software MATLAB and SIMULINK, has disclosed a major ransomware attack that has impacted thousands of its users. The incident occurred in the spring of 2025, but its...
The creator of the spyware TheTruthSpy—the Vietnamese company 1Byte Software, led by Vanh (Vardi) Tiu—has once again found itself at the center of a major scandal. Independent security researcher Swarang Veid has uncovered a...
The Auchan retail chain has fallen victim to a cyber incident targeting its customer loyalty program. This time, attackers gained access to the personal data of clients registered in the Waaoh loyalty scheme. Information...
The popular Chrome extension FreeVPN.One, installed by more than 100,000 users and marked with a verification check, has been exposed as spyware. Researchers from Koi Security discovered that it secretly captures screenshots of user...
Elon Musk’s company xAI has found itself at the center of a scandal after it was revealed that user conversations with the chatbot Grok had been inadvertently exposed to the public. By clicking the...
The Australian telecommunications provider TPG Telecom has reported a serious security incident affecting the infrastructure of its subsidiary brand iiNet, which offers Australians fixed-line and mobile internet, telephony, and television services. An unidentified attacker...
On a well-known data leak forum, a post has surfaced advertising the sale of a database allegedly containing 15.8 million PayPal accounts, complete with email addresses and plaintext passwords. The seller claims the information...
TikTok has found itself at the center of a new scandal following an investigation by 404 Media: through TikTok Shop, vast numbers of GPS trackers and covert audio devices are being sold, brazenly advertised...
Researchers from University College London and the University of the Mediterranean in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have conducted the first large-scale investigation into privacy practices among generative AI assistants for web browsers, revealing that even...
Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit 8200—specializing in cyber-espionage and electronic surveillance—has been using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store a vast archive of data on residents of Gaza and the West Bank. This trove, leveraged...
Authorities in Saint Paul, Minnesota, are still grappling with the aftermath of a cyberattack that crippled large portions of the city’s municipal operations. Responsibility for the incident has been claimed by the hacking group...
The North Korean cyber-espionage group Kimsuky has unexpectedly found itself in the role of victim after two hackers — identifying themselves as the “antithesis of Kimsuky’s values” — infiltrated its infrastructure and released stolen...
Since its emergence in the spring of 2024, the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Embargo has rapidly secured a prominent position in the cybercriminal landscape. According to TRM Labs, wallets linked to the operation may have...
A hidden system prompt for GPT-5 has surfaced online, published on GitHub. This set of internal rules defines what ChatGPT may and may not do, which types of data it can retain, and which...
A researcher operating under the pseudonym dead1nfluence has discovered that the Internet Archive contains over 130,000 recorded conversations with popular chatbots — including Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and others. This finding suggests that with improper...
Hackers have breached the electronic case management system of the U.S. federal courts, gaining access to confidential information, including the identities of protected witnesses. The incident, which affected multiple district courts across several states,...
