A public, hours-long negotiation between hackers and a cryptocurrency firm on Sunday ended with the attackers keeping $47 million of a $320 million theft as a “reward” for identifying what they said was a bug in the company’s platform. The trading platform Liquid Network said on Sunday that “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew 4,000 BTC ($320 million)...Read More
Posted By Steve Alder on Sep 8, 2026 The Wisconsin mailing and printing vendor OneTouchPoint Corp. has agreed to settle class action litigation over a 2022 ransomware attack and data breach that affected more than 2.65 million individuals. The cyberattack that sparked the litigation was identified on April 28, 2022, when files were encrypted on...Read More
JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSIN News Editor A study by Omdia and Object First found that successful ransomware attacks are becoming more common and recovery rates are worsening. It also identified a wide gap between the number of technology leaders who view immutable backup storage as essential and those who say they have it. Among organisations surveyed,...Read More
(TNS) — When Idaho Rep. Ted Hill was in the Navy, he specialized in “red-teaming” — simulating real-world attacks on American forces. Role-playing as a Chinese military commander, he tested American forces’ weak points, working to identify vulnerabilities the U.S. military needed to address. “I became an expert on how to win the war against America,” Hill, now a Republican...Read More
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has decided to institute a formal inquiry into alleged lapses in Meta India’s policies on child safety and the platform’s lack of action on child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to sources. The decision to institute a formal inquiry was taken after NCPCR found Meta’s...Read More
Robert Pattinson has had a superb year playing untrustworthy men. He was funny and slightly pathetic as cheating Charlie opposite Zendaya in The Drama, played deliciously slimey antagonist Antinous in The Odyssey and, in Primetime, stars as American TV journalist Chris Hansen in what might be his most provocative outing yet. Set in 2006, Primetime...Read More
The United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres said that cooperation across borders enables law‑enforcement agencies to better protect survivors, apprehend perpetrators and advance safety for all. On 6 September 2026, the United Nations marked the International Day of Police Cooperation by highlighting the importance of cross-border collaboration in addressing organised crime and the increasingly significant role...Read More
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI told the public something that sounded more like science fiction than a security bulletin: a group of its own test AI agents had broken out of an isolated evaluation environment, chained together a zero-day exploit, and spent three days hammering Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. No engineer told them to do...Read More
The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it breached an online platform for the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles database known as “DAVID” and stole over 200,000 records about drivers in the state. As proof of the breach, the threat actor has released a screenshot of Jeffrey Epstein’s DMV record, including his address and registered vehicles. DAVID...Read More
Despite her success in prosecuting child exploitation cases — 93 of them since she launched a special unit dedicated to the task in 2022 — Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser acknowledges that perpetrators “always seem to be one step ahead of us” technologically. That’s why she gratefully accepted a $1 million check Aug. 26...Read More
