The hacker behind the gigantic GTA 6 gameplay leak has been removed from a secure hospital and transferred to a standard prison following his sentencing late 2023. Arion Kurtaj was found guilty of numerous charges such as hacking and fraud after a spree of cybercrime. It ended with him accessing Rockstar’s internal communications system and...Read More

A new interagency clearinghouse will centralize AI vulnerability reporting and triage, promising faster fixes for energy and finance systems while raising questions about funding and oversight. The White House is launching a new AI cybersecurity center – a clearinghouse called Gold Eagle – to coordinate the protection of critical infrastructure from cyber threats and to...Read More

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in cybersecurity and cybercrime, Index Engines is urging organizations to strengthen their cyber resilience strategies, arguing that AI-powered ransomware is making attacks faster and more difficult to defend against. The cyber resilience company said emerging AI models are accelerating existing attack techniques by helping threat actors identify vulnerabilities, automate...Read More

Acting on the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) recommendations, India temporarily blocked the Telegram messaging app from Jun 16 to 22. The NTA said the ban was “in response to the organised use of the platform by cheating rackets to defraud candidates” ahead of the re-examination on Jun 21.  Telegram challenged the temporary ban, but a New Delhi court...Read More

TL;DR Temu is a real shopping app, not an outright scam — but multiple users have reported suspicious bank activity and data concerns after using it. The app has faced scrutiny over data privacy, and security researchers have flagged it for aggressive data collection. Whether the risk is worth the low prices is genuinely up...Read More

F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in NGINX Plus 37.0.3.1; anyone on an earlier build should upgrade. Triggering it...Read More

The US Department of the Treasury this week sanctioned First VPN Service, saying it enabled cybercriminals to launch ransomware attacks against American companies and institutions. The Office of Foreign Assets Control, an intelligence and enforcement agency within the Department of the Treasury, also levied sanctions on First VPN administrator Dmytro Rashevskyi and Yegeniy Vladimirovich Silayev...Read More

Cybercrime activity has evolved into a borderless, efficient economy where criminal collaboration often outpaces the structures built to defend against it. A promising answer is emerging: strengthen collaboration and build new incentive models that mobilize a broader segment of society to safely disrupt cybercrime at scale. Community intelligence, public-private partnerships and incentivized reporting can help...Read More

Call and text records from dozens of federal agencies are believed to among millions stolen in a massive breach of telephone giant AT&T. AT&T said that a hacker broke into its network in April and stole records of calls and text messages made by more than 100 million customers in a five-month period in 2022...Read More

In a market built on trust, cyber security vendors face a difficult communications challenge. Buyers often need to rely on marketing claims to assess highly technical products, making accuracy and transparency in communications materials particularly important.   Claims around protection, resilience and risk reduction need to be clear, evidence-based and proportionate, especially when they are being...Read More