The G7 just made North Korea hacking operation a formal geopolitical priority. Leaders from the world’s seven largest advanced economies issued a joint communiqué at the Evian summit just yesterday, explicitly calling out Pyongyang’s cryptocurrency theft machine. They accused the North Korean of draining more than $6.75 billion from the crypto ecosystem since 2017. The...Read More
AI’s expanding role in cybersecurity: Opportunity, risk and the new reality for businesses Artificial intelligence has taken over many conversations about the future of business, but none has grown more urgent than the one now centered on cybersecurity. When Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview earlier this year, the rollout did not follow the usual path...Read More
More than a week after a cyberattack disrupted operations at Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, the company said it is investigating claims by a ransomware group as it continues to restore its systems. The threat actor known as Gentlemen claimed responsibility for the incident at Mackay Sugar, which disrupted sugar mill operations across one of the...Read More
Researchers say a sweeping hacking campaign targeting devices made by Fortinet has led to compromises across the internet, with evidence of password theft at Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in more than 15 countries. Most of the affected devices were in the United States, India, and Taiwan, according to Hudson Rock, a firm that...Read More
Aztec Network has experienced yet another significant exploit after a hacker took advantage of a crucial weakness in the protocol’s emergency withdrawal mechanism. This resulted in the compromise of 1,158 Ethereum [ETH], 150,000 DAI, and 0.4696 renBTC. In total, roughly $2.21 million was drained from the ‘RollupProcessor’ contract of the Aztec Network. That said, the...Read More
Accenture announced Thursday it would acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos for $3.25 billion and purchase two smaller security companies outright, essentially making a $4.18 billion bet that defending the IT networks of power grids, pipelines, factories and critical infrastructure sectors will become one of the defining challenges of the AI era....Read More
Long before cybercrime made headlines, hackers were known for creativity and problem-solving. The term originated at MIT, where students experimented with model trains, computers and complex systems. Their curiosity helped shape modern computing culture. As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “250 Years of America,” a multipart series examining the innovations, breakthroughs...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 18, 2026Remote Access Trojan / Ransomware Threat actors associated with the DragonForce ransomware have been observed using a custom Go-based remote access trojan (RAT) called Backdoor.Turn to conceal command-and-control (C2) traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. According to findings from Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black, the backdoor was deployed against a major U.S....Read More
Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack that distributed infected releases to paying customers via the vendor’s official update system. The malware delivered this way installed a fake plugin that impersonates WooCommerce components, steals credentials, and grants operators remote file-writing capabilities. ShapedPlugin is a WordPress plugin vendor specializing in front-end/UI...Read More
North Carolina’s Department of Information Technology announced Thursday that it has selected Tanium as the statewide endpoint management and cybersecurity platform for SecureNC, the state’s collaborative cybersecurity program that provides resources and guidance to state and local agencies. According to the Thursday announcement, Tanium will help consolidate the state’s management and security operations on a...Read More
