Kathmandu, September 22 On Monday, the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) was forced to suspend regular share trading for an entire day. NEPSE initially described the disruption as a “technical problem”. But information emerging after the incident points to a more serious cause — a ransomware attack on the data centre operated by Data Hub Pvt...Read More
The result is a dramatic acceleration in attack speed and scale. Anthropic said it observed breaches completed in two to three hours, while individual operators handled dozens of victims in parallel. In one case, an attacker went from a single stolen developer token to full administrative control of a victim’s cloud environment in roughly three...Read More
A battle has broken out between a pair of cyber crime groups, highlighting how even hackers need to be wary of vulnerabilities in their infrastructure. ShinyHunters, known for a series of devastating attacks in recent years, claims it had taken over the website and infrastructure of rival hacking group, Clop. The incident appears to be...Read More
(L-R) H.E. Dr Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of the UAE Cyber Security Council & Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President of inD, organiser of GISEC Global and GQX. The sell-out success of the 15th edition of GISEC Global, attended by thousands of cyber professionals from over 130 countries on the opening day at the Dubai Exhibition...Read More
We’ve heard of OpenAI’s AI agents running amok and hacking other companies. Now, a cybersecurity company has turned the tables on the ChatGPT operator by using AI to help hack OpenAI itself. The hack, which also exposed a bug affecting dozens of other major online services, was conducted as security research. OpenAI paid the researchers...Read More
A PAYLOAD ransomware incident weaponized Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy to disrupt an organization’s Windows computers without deploying ransomware or encrypting files. Instead, the attackers used the company’s own administration infrastructure to display ransom notes, change wallpapers, deactivate local administrator accounts, and turn off Windows Firewall across the network. Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team (GERT)...Read More
Cybersecurity teams are being pushed to breaking point, according to new research, with sluggish workforce growth struggling to keep pace with a rising tide of attacks. In a new survey from ISACA, more than one-third (38%) of European IT and cyber professionals said their organization has faced more attacks this year than all of 2025....Read More
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has engaged in a hacking campaign at least since June, involving the theft of thousands of documents from, at minimum, one Western government, according to a Monday blog post from threat intelligence firm GreyNoise. The hacker targeted critical vulnerabilities in multiple technologies, including WordPress, Zyxel and Ubiquiti, and is suspected of...Read More
The European Union can not respond effectively to major cybersecurity incidents because of insufficient information sharing, the European Court of Auditors said in a report published on Monday. George-Marius Hyzler, the auditor responsible for the report, said timely and actionable information was essential during serious cybersecurity incidents. Without it, he said, the effectiveness of EU...Read More
Cybercriminals do not only target companies and public institutions. They can also attack each other. Although some groups collaborate for their malicious activities and others emerge as small ‘offspring’ of larger collectives, it can also happen that two formations have their rivalry and even engage in relentless battles over victims, money, reputation, and other things....Read More
