The cybercrime ecosystem has always been competitive, but recent events suggest that competition between ransomware and data-extortion groups is taking a more aggressive turn. A striking example emerged in September third week of 2026, when the ShinyHunters cybercrime group claimed to have breached the infrastructure of rival ransomware group Clop and taken control of its...Read More

When Nik Cubrilovic saw the news of the OpenAI Medicare hack this week, he knew the tech giant was unlikely to suffer any legal consequences. Not like the ones he faced. Almost a decade earlier, Mr Cubrilovic was slapped with more than 50 charges — some carrying a possible jail time of up to a...Read More

A security researcher discovered a vulnerability in Flock’s website that gave him an access token without needing login credentials. The researcher used the information gleaned to build a map of Flock cameras and share it on a website he named the Flock Surveillance Map, which now lists the location of 335,701 cameras. Flock has now...Read More

The FBI confirmed on September 26, 2026 that it is dealing with what the bureau called a “cybersecurity incident,” following claims from the extortion group ShinyHunters that it stole more than two terabytes of employee data from the FBI’s own jobs portal, FBIJobs.gov. The confirmation, first reported by NewsNation and picked up by outlets including...Read More

New York —  YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismissed the idea of joining Meta’s multistate settlement agreement around child safety, saying the video platform already has measures in place to protect young users. “We have invested in making sure that young people are safe on our platform… for a very long time,” Mohan told CNN. “What you...Read More