WANA (Jun 12) – The cyber group known as “Handala” has claimed responsibility for a major breach into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) security drone systems, alleging they maintained unrestricted access to live video feeds and classified data for several months. According to a statement released by the group, the compromised FBI drones—which...Read More
Following a cybersecurity incident reported by Evertec, Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service Executive Director Poincaré Díaz Peña said the best defense against such incidents is an informed public that verifies the authenticity of messages received, uses strong passwords, and activates additional security mechanisms on their accounts. Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) Executive...Read More
Authorities in Europe have disrupted AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service used by ransomware gangs and cybercriminal networks. Europol, in a statement issued Thursday, said the dismantling of AudiA6 cut off a “key financial pipeline used to wash hundreds of millions in illicit profits.” The service is estimated to have been used to launder more than...Read More
The campaign took place between May 27 and June 9, Google said in a blog [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Alphabet’s cybersecurity unit Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group said Thursday they had identified an active compromise and extortion campaign targeting Oracle’s PeopleSoft enterprise software, which they attributed to the hacking group ShinyHunters. The campaign...Read More
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has established its first office dedicated to cybersecurity. Through training, research, policy development, and knowledge exchange, the Riyadh-based UNITAR Cybersecurity Office will support efforts to strengthen cyber resilience globally. The new Office is the third in the UNITAR network, joining those in Hiroshima, Japan, and Bonn,...Read More
The Australian Federal Police has played a key role in a Europol-led international operation that dismantled an alleged money laundering service used by cyber criminals to process more than $542 million in illicit funds, including proceeds from a ransomware attack targeting an Australian business. The operation culminated with the June 10 arrest of two men...Read More
PNP Chief, P/Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez, Jr. ordered the Anti-Cybercrime Group (ACG) to evaluate the vulnerabilities that allowed the intrusion while actively tracing the digital footprint left by the actors. “While we are relieved that no sensitive or confidential data was compromised in this defacement, an attack on a vital government institution remains a serious...Read More
Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2026 Annual Litigation Trends Survey: A midyear industry pulse shows exposure to cybersecurity and data privacy disputes has deepened across the energy, financial institutions, healthcare and technology sectors since the start of the year – far outpacing earlier expectations. Corporate counsel in those sectors also report increased litigation risk around artificial intelligence (AI) and employment issues but note...Read More
SRINAGAR: The Centre has issued a fresh advisory warning of an emerging wave of cybercrime in which artificial intelligence is being used to bypass security systems and infiltrate financial infrastructure across digital platforms. The advisory, released by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, cautions that...Read More
A security researcher known as brutecat has disclosed how an AI-driven fuzzing pipeline uncovered more than $500,000 in vulnerabilities across Google’s infrastructure in under three months, exposing systemic access-control failures hidden inside roughly 1,500 APIs. The researcher began by targeting Google’s discovery documents machine-readable API specifications, similar to Swagger docs, that list all available endpoints, parameters, and...Read More
