A prolific hacking group has taken credit for last week’s cyberattack against U.S. pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson, leading to the latest spill of highly sensitive health data by an American healthcare company in recent months. McKesson confirmed Friday in a statement on its website that hackers broke into several of its cloud-hosted accounts earlier in...Read More
Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent investigations identifying suspected workers employed in sales and marketing and the medical profession. The ongoing insider threat is part of what has been described as...Read More
Anyone doubting the importance of cybersecurity to AI, or its strength as a business model, need only look at MarketBeat’s Most Upgraded Stocks. The five most upgraded stocks from the Q2 reporting period were all cybersecurity names. Not five of the most upgraded—the five most upgraded stocks. These companies’ services are in demand, and the...Read More
Berlin’s city administration has confirmed that cybercriminals are attempting to extort the city after the Rhysida ransomware gang listed it on their data leak site. The attack was discovered in mid-August, and the threat actor claimed it publicly last Friday, on August 28. Kai Wergner, the Mayor of Berlin, stated that the city will not...Read More
A Russian-speaking ransomware operator used an artificial intelligence coding agent to assist with attacks on companies across nine countries, giving researchers a rare look at how AI is becoming part of real-world cybercrime. The activity was uncovered after cybersecurity firms CloudSEK and Gambit Security found an exposed server containing the operator’s files, attack notes and...Read More
Three arrested for hacking man, mother Trichy: Police have arrested three people for hacking a man and his mother with bill hooks near Ariyamangalam in Trichy over a worker-related dispute.Sources said M Manikandan, 29, has been buying rice from residents who purchase it from public distribution shops, and reselling it. He had employed Saddam Hussain...Read More
Why It Matters More than 70% of water systems inspected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since September 2023 violate basic cybersecurity assessment requirements, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report released on August 27. The report examined the implications of July 2026 cyberattacks on water utilities in at least seven states, where attackers...Read More
Cloudflare has unveiled a new weapon against automated cyberattacks, and it’s built to make bots feel like they’re chasing a target that keeps moving. The company announced Adaptive Intelligence, a continuous, real-time detection engine now woven directly into Cloudflare Bot Management, marking one of the more ambitious attempts yet to bring adaptive intelligence cybersecurity into...Read More
A cyberattack is causing service issues for the pharmaceutical and healthcare technology company McKesson. The company released a public notice and filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday evening saying it is in the early stages of investigating a cybersecurity incident that involves an unnamed third-party application. The hackers have gained...Read More
Australian police announced charges on Thursday against two men accused of participating in a cybercrime syndicate that targeted widely used open-source software to compromise thousands of global businesses. The Australian men face a combined 14 charges for their alleged roles in TeamPCP, a hacking collective that inserted malicious code into popular tools to compromise businesses,...Read More
