At the beginning of the year, Japan was shaken by a scandal surrounding a major data breach involving the Kaikatsu Club internet café chain. Law enforcement authorities identified a minor from Osaka Prefecture who,...
The Dutch authorities have released new data indicating that adolescents’ involvement in digital wrongdoing is typically fleeting. An analysis prepared for the House of Representatives reveals that early enthusiasm for hacking usually fades by...
A widespread exploitation campaign has descended upon WordPress sites: attackers are targeting installations that use the GutenKit and Hunk Companion plugins, which harbor critical flaws permitting arbitrary code execution on vulnerable servers. Wordfence, a...
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 31 individuals, including alleged members of organized crime and former NBA players, in connection with a large-scale poker fraud scheme that exploited hacked Deckmate 2 automatic card...
The electronic display boards of Los Angeles’s public transit network were hacked and used to broadcast alarming messages. Instead of the usual route details and bus arrival times, the screens displayed a chilling warning:...
In early 2025, a developer named Jay Gibson (name changed for security reasons) received a chilling notification on his personal iPhone: Apple had warned him that his device had been the target of a...
GitLab published a report detailing a fresh wave of attacks in which researcher Oliver Smith analyzed a shift in tactics by a North Korean cyber group employing the BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret malware families. The...
Researchers at Check Point have uncovered a prolonged and targeted campaign by the group Nimbus Manticore (also tracked as UNC1549 and Smoke Sandstorm), which since early 2025 has been directing operations against defence contractors,...
The story of Noah Urban is one of the clearest illustrations of how teenage socializing and a simple phone call can transform into an instrument of cybercrime. According to an investigation drawing on Discord...
British investigators have charged 19-year-old East London resident Talha Jubair, alleged to be linked with the Scattered Spider group. According to police and prosecutors, he took part in extortion campaigns against more than a...
UK authorities have arrested two teenagers suspected of involvement in the August 2024 cyberattack on London’s Transport for London (TfL). The arrests stem from an international investigation linked to the notorious hacking collective Scattered...
Researchers at TyphoonPWN, participating in the TyphoonPWN 2025 contest, uncovered a critical flaw in LG WebOS firmware that permits total takeover of a television — from unauthorized file downloads to webcam access, application installation,...
