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
Law enforcement agencies and tech companies disrupted over 1.4 million accounts and underlying infrastructure used by scam networks across Southeast Asia. The joint effort, named Disruption Week, involved the US Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force, the Royal Thai Police, global law enforcement, and companies such as Apple, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Silent Push,...Read More
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today that hackers are now actively exploiting a recently patched high-severity SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to crash servers. Serv-U is the company’s Windows and Linux file transfer software that offers Managed File Transfer (MFT) and FTP server capabilities, which allow users to securely exchange files via HTTP/HTTPS,...Read More
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) is expanding career pathway opportunities for high school students with the launch of the Computing and Cybersecurity Academy. The new program will be in the NICC Dubuque Center with a schedule designed to fit the needs of high school juniors and seniors starting in August. Students participating in the academy can earn up to 11 college credits at...Read More
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group tracked as TA4922 has been escalating activities and expanding to new geographies, Proofpoint reports. Relying on social engineering, the hacking group has been continually updating its arsenal, distributing multiple malware families and also engaging in credential phishing and fraud schemes such as credit card theft. While some of TA4922’s activities overlap...Read More
On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types – On-Prem Deployment Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Cisco SD-WAN...Read More
Ruag paid a ransom to the “Akira” group after a hacker attack – contrary to the recommendations of the federal government. sda The federally owned armaments group Ruag paid a ransom after a hacker attack – and thus acted against the recommendations of the Swiss government. No time? blue News summarizes for you Ruag has...Read More
Cloud systems operated by IBM and AT&T for the US federal government were breached numerous times by foreign hackers, and the companies concealed the breaches from the government, according to a whistleblower’s lawsuit, Bloomberg reported. William Barlow, IBM’s former vice president of threat intelligence, alleged in the complaint that the cloud systems in question were...Read More
The automotive industry is experiencing a situation of uncertainty that does not favor a smooth transition. In addition to the traditional risks associated with driving or owning a car, there are now various technological revolutions to consider, such as the emergence of artificial intelligence and the impact of cybercrime. The resulting scenario is increasingly complex....Read More
