Sep. 21 — Ukrainian hackers of the Ukrainian Militant hacking community claim that they received a large amount of technical documentation connected to Russian naval systems, the Ukrainian Militant said. The hackers said that they got information on the scientific, technical, design, testing, and operational infrastructure of Russian naval developments related to the submarine fleet,...Read More
ShinyHunters hacked rival gang Cl0p, stealing source code, logs, and onion service keys The gang defaced Cl0p’s site via Grav CMS flaw, posting their logo and taunts about past threats Feud recalls Conti’s collapse in 2022, raising risk of escalating “cyber war” between criminal groups Infamous cybercriminal gang Cl0p has seemingly been hacked by an...Read More
Washington state has named Gwen Gann, an experienced private sector tech leader, as the state’s new chief information security officer. Gann shared the announcement in a LinkedIn post, and in the role, she will oversee the state’s Office of Cybersecurity, which sets Washington’s cybersecurity strategy and protects state government networks from cyber threats. It also...Read More
AI-Based Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Presented by Palo Alto Networks 60 mins Manufacturing accounted for 65% of industrial ransomware incidents tracked by Dragos in Q2 2026, with the U.S. remaining the most impacted country. For manufacturing leaders, the consequences extend far beyond a security...Read More
Japanese software company Helpfeel has confirmed a data breach on its screenshot-sharing platform Gyazo, in which attackers exploited a vulnerability in its image upload server, stealing approximately 23.62 million user records and metadata tied to hundreds of millions of images. Gyazo is a cloud-based screenshot and screen-recording service that uploads users’ captures automatically and generates...Read More
Vulnerability disclosure keeps setting records. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reports that CVE submissions rose 263% from 2020 to 2025, and the first three months of 2026 already tracked nearly one-third higher than the same period a year earlier. Every security team feels that curve in its backlog. The curve is not...Read More
An unusual conflict has erupted in the world of cybercrime: the ShinyHunters hacking group has claimed to have compromised the infrastructure of its rival, cl0p, by exploiting a software vulnerability. The dispute between the groups arose over the theft of an exploit last year, which exploited an unknown vulnerability in one of Oracle’s systems. “We...Read More
Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly unavoidable, especially here in South Africa. With frequency on the rise, the requirement to recover as quickly as possible following an attack is becoming an organisational imperative, but the latest State of Ransomware Report by Sophos shows that locally, recovery times are taking longer. The concerning statistic from the Report,...Read More
Most governments conduct offensive cyber operations to keep themselves safe from international threats, steal secrets, or disrupt adversaries. The United States government was one of the earliest and most prolific users of such cyber capabilities, in part by discovering and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities—flaws not yet known to those who made the software, and for which...Read More
Three researchers from Hacktron AI, a small cybersecurity company, got their hands on OpenAI’s internal code repository, the parent company of ChatGPT, in less than 72 hours. And the tool that opened the door for them is called Claude, the AI from Anthropic, its direct competitor. It all started on OpenAI’s help forum, a community...Read More
