The notorious Lazarus Group may have been behind a cyberattack on crypto e-commerce store Bitrefill, the firm estimates. Summary Bitrefill linked a March 1 cyberattack to tactics associated with the Lazarus and BlueNoroff groups, after attackers compromised an employee laptop and drained funds from hot wallets. Around 18,500 purchase records were accessed, though the company...Read More
This regular round-up brings you key cybersecurity stories from the past month. Top cybersecurity news: Cyber plays key role in Middle East conflict; misuse of AI for cybercrime; Portuguese officials’ messaging accounts targeted. The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity provides an independent and impartial platform to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a strategic...Read More
An international cybercrime operation targeting phishing, malware and ransomware has seen the INTERPOL take down more than 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers, the organisation has announced. Law enforcement from 72 countries and territories took part in Operation Synergia III (18 July 2025 – 31 January 2026), coordinated by INTERPOL, it said, noting that the...Read More
Group claims to have seized 50 terabytes of data in response to deadly US-Israeli strikes on Iranian school that killed more than 170 people. Published On 11 Mar 202611 Mar 2026 A major cyberattack has crippled the global networks of Stryker, one of the world’s largest medical device companies, with an Iran-linked hacking group claiming...Read More
Published on March 18, 2026 An Israeli startup let its AI loose in advanced cyber games. It did better than 125,000 humans. The Tenzai cofounders have created an AI hacking agent using OpenAI and Anthropic tools. They say AI has become so adept at hacking it might need regulatory controls, urgently. Elad Malka Every year,...Read More
Feb. 17, with 1,631 days of lingering in the court system to his credit, Ronald Lee Tyler, 81, finally admitted to sex crimes committed against Jefferson County’s children, members of his own family. With a wave of support behind the child sex offender, however, the accused championed for deferred adjudicated probation, so that once probation...Read More
Name: The accidental hacker. Age: It doesn’t matter how old Sammy Azdoufal is. What he did is what’s important here, and what he did is very much of the age. And what did Azdoufal do? He hooked up his DJI Romo vacuum cleaner to his PS5 controller. Why? Because, he told the New York-based tech...Read More
Ravie LakshmananMar 18, 2026Vulnerability / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been...Read More
Bitrefill has released a comprehensive report on a security breach that occurred on March 1, and it believes it to be the work of the North Korean hacking group called the Lazarus Group. The Lazarus Group was also responsible for the largest single heist in crypto history when it hit Bybit early last year for...Read More
Age-verified Roblox accounts being offered for sale online expose a terrifying loophole in the gaming platform’s new safety measures. The platform popular with children, and notorious for its predator problem, recently introduced new age-verification tools to safeguard gaming spaces for children — but experts say the technology cannot keep up. Pre-made accounts have recently appeared...Read More
