The National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit has warned of a rise in financial frauds involving malicious pornography apps circulated through social media advertisements, which can take control of Android devices and potentially enable unauthorised financial transactions. The malicious apps, disguised as pornography applications and operating under names such as “Night Play”, “Reloop”, “Kyss”, “Vimo”, “Rivo”,...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 31 (KNS): The Union Home Ministry’s cybercrime arm has flagged a fresh wave of malicious applications disguised as pornography platforms that can hijack Android smartphones and potentially enable siphoning of funds from victims’ bank accounts. The National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit, operating under the Integrated Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), said in...Read More
The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, as seen from the air, January 29, 2010. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images On August 28, Fort Meade briefly resembled a college homecoming: potentially hundreds of former elite hackers filed back through the gates of the National Security Agency for an alumni recruitment reunion event...Read More
AI-driven threat detection is becoming a viable resource in hospitality, not just a concept people talk about at conferences. By Frank Ziller, Chief Technology Officer at Cloud5 Communications – 8.31.2026 In over 30 years working in hospitality technology, I’ve learned one important lesson about threats: they don’t give us time to prepare, they show up...Read More
A Russian-speaking ransomware operator used Cursor’s built-in AI coding agent to help breach at least seven companies across three continents, according to an investigation by Israeli cybersecurity firm Gambit Security first reported by Reuters on Aug. 27. The breaches took place between April 8 and May 21, when an affiliate of the Aur0ra ransomware group...Read More
The crucial investigative question: Where did the data actually come from? The biggest weakness in any dark-web breach investigation is attribution. A database appearing for sale online can originate from several sources: 1. Direct server intrusion The attacker penetrated the government’s infrastructure and extracted the database. 2. Third-party vendor compromise A contractor or technology provider...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 31, 2026Cyber Espionage / IoT Botnet The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ said the National Aeronautics...Read More
As a cybersecurity practitioner, you eat, sleep and breathe security. So you are already all-too-familiar with the rate of attacks ramping up as agentic AI and sophisticated attackers do their best to wear you down. Take a beat. Take a breath. And get ready for some well-deserved good news: Symantec CBX knows the landscape and the...Read More
Logo of the ransomware group Rhysida. (Photo via X/@IntCyberDigest) August 31, 2026 10:36 AM GMT+03:00 A ransomware group calling itself Rhysida has demanded 30 bitcoin, roughly €2 million ($2.3 million), from Berlin’s government after breaching its IT network, threatening to release nearly six terabytes of stolen data if its demand is not met, German media...Read More
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — TPP Chair Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) won a defamation lawsuit Monday against Mirror Media over reports accusing him of organizing an army of internet trolls and selling sensitive information obtained through hackers. During an investigation into the hacking of Radio Taiwan International’s website, Mirror Media interviewed suspect and engineer Wu Cheng-hsun (吳政勳)...Read More
