Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Rizwan has submitted his response to the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency’s (NCCIA) questionnaire while questioning the basis of the agency’s inquiry against him. In his response, the wicketkeeper-batter also requested details of the allegations against him and questioned why the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit was not tasked with probing the...Read More
Security researchers say they used Anthropic’s newly released Claude Opus 5 to help turn an image-processing vulnerability into an exploit chain that compromised an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account and reached the company’s internal GitHub environment — an incident that illustrates how AI coding agents are changing the economics of sophisticated vulnerability exploitation. The researchers, part...Read More
Flock says that its cameras are protected by on-device encryption, and even though a security researcher noted some flaws in its system, the company said that physical access is still required to exploit them and that the images are only briefly retained on the device before they’re forwarded to the cloud. However, 404 Media says...Read More
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) reintroduced legislation Thursday aimed at strengthening cybersecurity standards across the nation’s health care system as hospitals and medical providers face increasingly frequent cyberattacks. The Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act would establish mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards for health care providers, health plans, clearinghouses and companies that...Read More
It may seem paradoxical, but devices designed to provide security, such as surveillance cameras and baby monitors, can themselves become an entry point for those seeking to undermine it. The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) has warned citizens that cybercriminals are actively compromising IP cameras and using them for malicious purposes ranging from distributed denial-of-service...Read More
REDDING, Calif. — A convicted child predator from Laos, ordered removed from the United States in 2005, was arrested last month during an immigration enforcement operation in Redding, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced. The operation occurred in August 2026. The ICE Fugitive Operations team said Kao Wang Saechao, a Laos national, was convicted...Read More
A Russian man wanted internationally over his alleged role in a major cybercrime operation worked as an adviser to Vladislav Davankov, a deputy speaker of Russia’s State Duma and leader of the New People party, Russian independent media ASTRA reported on Thursday. Vitaly Kovalev, who used the aliases “Stern” and “Ben,” was also included on...Read More
Chithari Haribabu, recently released on bail, was hacked to death by unknown assailants. HYDERABAD: About six months after he was arrested for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, who was also a YouTuber, Chithari Haribabu was hacked to death by a group of unidentified men at Rajarajendra (RR) Centre in Nizamabad on Thursday. He had been...Read More
The Iran-linked “hacktivist” persona known as Handala Hack has been attributed to a Telegram-based surveillance backdoor called HEAVYGRAM and a Delphi-based utility known as CRUDEEXCLUDE. “HEAVYGRAM offers builtin commands supporting remote command execution, system, network and process information discovery, data and Telegram session files exfiltration, screenshot capture, DLL sideloading, file cleanup, and persistence via Windows...Read More
This week in cybersecurity, the industry priority moved beyond traditional threat detection toward control, governance and organizational resilience. Microsoft’s proposed AI Code of Conduct underscored the growing need for human oversight, while new identity-security capabilities and the cybersecurity skills shortage highlighted two practical challenges: controlling who and what can access enterprise systems, and ensuring organizations...Read More
