Thousands of individuals had their sensitive personal information exposed after Tulane University experienced a major data breach after hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite. In a recent filing with the Office of New Hampshire Attorney General, Tulane University said it experienced a data security incident after attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in...Read More
Identity governance startup Opal Security has announced raising $23 million in a new funding round that brings the total investment in the company to $59 million. The fresh round of funding was led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with additional support from Cambium Capital. Founded in 2020, San Francisco-based Opal has built an AI-native platform...Read More
The Sophos MDR Threat Intelligence team previously published the blog Akira Ransomware is “bringin’ 1988 back” in May 2023, roughly two months after the group is reported to have begun operations. Since the ransomware group’s initial attacks in March, Akira has emerged as a formidable ransomware threat in the cybersecurity landscape for small to medium-sized...Read More
Bishkek (TDI): Pakistan pressed fellow members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to step up collective action against terrorism, cybercrime, and drug trafficking. Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, addressed a special ministerial meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Friday, using the bloc’s platform to address security challenges that have long strained its western borders. Speaking before ministers...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Patch Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes...Read More
BENGALURU: The investigation by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has revealed that Sunish Hegde, a city-based businessman, extorted money in crores from the victims of notorious hacker Srikrishna aka Sriki and received proceeds of crime in cash, bank transfers and casino chips since 2017. Sriki told ED that he hacked poker websites, including PokerSaint, and...Read More
Bridgewater State University image CyberTrust Massachusetts hosts regular, realistic “Capture the Flag” (CTF) cyber range competitions designed for public colleges, municipalities, and regional Security Operations Centers (SOCs).These events typically challenge student teams to investigate mock corporate digital infrastructures, trace cyber attacks, and present executive briefings to non-technical audiences. The CyberTrust CTF scenarios mirror real-world attacks....Read More
Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It. Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026 Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in...Read More
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest...Read More
