Rabat – Morocco’s cybersecurity strategy must focus on prevention, early detection and rapid response rather than dealing with attacks only after they occur, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of National Defense Administration Abdellatif Loudiyi said today. Speaking at the opening of National Cybersecurity Week in Rabat, Loudiyi said securing information systems...Read More
Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controls overnight and pushed cases to 122F. The US is the Danish supplier’s biggest single market Hackers turned refrigerated cases at hundreds of French supermarkets into something closer to ovens overnight Sunday. They drove temperatures as high as 50C (122F), spoiled fresh and frozen stock and, according to Paris prosecutors, sparked...Read More
Refrigerators in French supermarkets are being targeted by remote hackers, who are dialing up their temperature to more than 120 degrees. Paris authorities reported Monday that a large-scale cyber-attack is affecting connected refrigerators in several major food retailers across France.” The tampering, which affected hundreds of retail locations across the country, has caused loss of...Read More
MoneyGram, a financial services organization with approximately 60 million active customers, may have experienced a data breach. The organization itself has not confirmed an incident; however, a ransomware group known as The Gentlemen claims today to have breached the service. No samples of breached data have yet been published by the group, calling into question their...Read More
The Federal Government has taken delivery of 105 Nigerians rescued during an operation targeting cybercrime syndicates in Ghana. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) announced this in a statement issued on Monday and signed by its Head of Press and Public Relations Unit, Vincent Adekoye. According to the agency, the...Read More
According to both filings, Storm added The Money Store to its public list of breach victims on or about September 22, 2026. The lawsuits describe Storm as responsible for “numerous data breaches since August 2026” and known for “double extortion tactics” – encrypting a company’s data while threatening to publish stolen information unless a ransom...Read More
A cybersecurity researcher says he warned the Election Commission about flaws in its ECINET app in July. Three months on, only one has been acknowledged as fixed. This too came after, Hindustan Times wrote to ECI about the flaws. Nisarga Adhikary emailed ECI and CERT-In, the national cyber-security agency, on July 8. He alleges no...Read More
Sheldon Cooper | Lightrocket | Getty Images Quantum computing platform IonQ said on Monday it will acquire cybersecurity company Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion, including up to $150 million in performance-based earnouts. The move is designed to defend against and uncover attackers targeting generative AI large-language models and AI agents,...Read More
AI-Based Attacks , Data Backup and Recovery , Data Security QuellSecure’s Omar Hussain on Slow Recovery, Containment and AI-Driven Attacks Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • October 12, 2026 Omar Hussain, CEO and co-founder, QuellSecure Hospitals expect to bounce back quickly from ransomware, but only 16% of victim organizations recover within a day, said...Read More
Attackers hijacked connected refrigeration controls overnight and pushed cabinets to 50C, leaving retailers with ruined stock and an awkward question about which policy, if any, will pay Hackers turned the fridges of hundreds of French supermarkets into something closer to ovens overnight on Sunday. They forced temperatures as high as 50C, spoiled fresh and frozen...Read More
