Meta has confirmed that a vulnerability in its AI-powered Instagram account recovery system allowed attackers to take over more than 20,000 Instagram accounts. The flaw was found in Meta’s High Touch Support (HTS) tool, an AI-assisted recovery system designed to help users regain access to locked Instagram accounts. According to the company, attackers exploited the...Read More

Evanston Township High School says that a ransomware attack “distrupted access to district systems, internet services, and computer infrastructure” on Sunday, June 7. Because of that, ETHS will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, with all summer school, sports camps, and other on-campus activities cancelled for both days. In a website posting, the school adds...Read More

A cyber extortion group known for targeting law firms and other sensitive industries is now using a fast-flux botnet infrastructure to make its data leak operations harder to track and disrupt, according to new research by Resecurity. The group, known as Silent Ransom Group, or SRG, has been active since at least 2022. It is...Read More

Al-Masry Al-Youm has acquired new details regarding the about the future of the Falcon Security Company following the Public Prosecutor’s decision to freeze the assets of the company’s chairman, Sabry Nakhnoukh. The Falcon Security Company is one of the largest private security companies in Egypt, operating in securing government and private facilities, shopping malls, universities, and...Read More

Guardicore Segmentation and NVIDIA DOCA-enabled BlueField-4 STX bring real-time, workload-aware enforcement to protect agentic AI systems, data, and infrastructure at line speed Akamai is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate advanced Zero Trust security directly into AI factory infrastructure, targeting the fast-growing ecosystem of agentic AI workloads. According to the companies, the partnership brings...Read More

It all began with a text message two weeks before a Halloween party in a small town in the US — and ended with irreparable damage to an entire community. Lauryn Licari, a Beal City school student, met boyfriend Owen McKenny when they were just 12 years old. The couple attended the same school in...Read More

Teens, teachers, and parents have been thrown into turmoil in Lacey, Wash., over a sexting scandal that started when an eighth-grade girl texted a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend, according to The New York Times. They broke up, and he shared the image with another girl, who in turn distributed it widely with...Read More

TD Bank is holding a Dartmouth, N.S., man responsible for nearly $15,000 transferred out of his account — but it won’t explain how it determined his account wasn’t hacked. Shakir Ahamed says he was at work last July, handling payroll for the Canadian Coast Guard in the Maritimes, when he received a text from TD...Read More

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753, which is...Read More

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