More than 100 leading technology, cybersecurity, financial and infrastructure companies are calling for a global surge in cyber defense, warning that increasingly capable AI models will make cyberattacks more widespread and sophisticated in the coming months. A coalition of more than 100 companies, including leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta and Fortinet,...Read More
The attack started quietly. A handful of hijacked open-source packages. A few stolen API keys. Security teams filed the reports and moved on. That was March. By June, the campaign had stolen 294,842 secrets from 6,943 developer machines, partnered with a ransomware group to monetize the access, open-sourced its own attack toolkit with a $1,000...Read More
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced on the 27th that it had confirmed a breach by a ransomware hacking group into a standalone system that stored information related to the agency’s investigative targets. The U.S. Department of Justice has designated the matter as a “major incident” under federal guidelines and...Read More
An Ontario resident lost $50,000 in an online scam. The resident, from Fergus, north of Guelph, contacted the Ontario Provincial Police on Aug. 25. The OPP said the resident received communications from people claiming to be representatives of a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The representatives told the victim that there was a security concern related to...Read More
As a kid, Sam Crow loved playing with toy airplanes. As an adult, he stood before a panel of Boeing engineers, showing them how he’d hacked into a real one. Crow was a doctoral student at UC San Diego whose school project brought him to Boeing’s test lab, where he demonstrated how he could take...Read More
AI agents are multiplying inside corporate networks faster than security teams can track them, and two cybersecurity companies just proved that scramble translates directly into record-breaking revenue growth. Artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the need for cybersecurity solutions. On Thursday, August 27, CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD | CRWD Price Prediction) shares rose 20%, posting their best day...Read More
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed on 08/26/2026 that intruders reached a standalone system holding information about targets of ATF investigations. Senior Justice Department officials designated the event a “major incident.” What to Know? ATF confirmed a standalone system was breached and said it cut connections to that environment on discovery. Justice...Read More
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia, notorious for being a major center for international online scams, claimed Friday it no longer hosts any of the compounds where the lucrative cybercrime was carried out, although some remain skeptical. The government’s Ad-Hoc Commission for Combating Online Scams, CCOS, claimed success for its crackdown at a Thursday meeting...Read More
The Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Aug. 26 that they seized domains used by two China-linked hacking platforms that targeted multiple federal agencies, the U.S. Senate, and critical infrastructure networks. DOJ said in an Aug. 26 press release that the court-authorized seizures rendered the hacking platforms, known as QScan...Read More
CTC has received a $14.9 million contract for Marine Corps OT cybersecurity services The work will protect facility-related control systems at Marine Corps installations CTC and RMC Global will provide cyber assessments, architecture and compliance support Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a $14.9 million contract from Marine Corps Installations Command Government Facilities to provide operational...Read More
