In the months after she learned about the hack, Auer requested a hard copy of her records from Vastaamo. Her notes sit in a thick stack on the table between us as she tells me what happened. Even though their records were released more than five years ago, Vastaamo patients continue to be victimised. Someone...Read More

Ringcentral.com A cloud communications company that sells businesses the infrastructure to handle phone calls was itself compromised via a phone call — and the 1.6 million people whose contact profiles were leaked are now prime targets for the exact same attack that hit their provider. The story was first reported by BleepingComputer on August 14,...Read More

The University of Pennsylvania is investigating a vulgar email that was sent to members of its campus community. Penn told CBS News Philadelphia that it was not hacked, but the university is working to find the source of the fraudulent email. The email’s subject line read “We Got Hacked” and included explicit language while urging...Read More

A new ‘Bliss’ hardware exploit finally bypasses Xbox One security, but its extreme complexity limits real-world use, aiding research more than piracy. TL;DR: A security researcher revealed the first public hardware-level exploit for the original Xbox One, using precise voltage manipulation to bypass encryption. Though complex and limited to the original console, this unpatchable glitch...Read More

McKinsey & Company has reportedly seen its internal chatbot – released three years ago – hacked, in a move which could potentially have exposed millions of the firm’s private conversations. The prestige around strategy firms – particularly the three largest, known as the MBB – suggests that the high-level work that the firms undertake for...Read More

The findings mark the first publicly documented case of an active member of the committee being targeted with Pegasus, the notorious spyware operated by Israeli cyber-intelligence leader NSO Group that has been used to target political figures worldwide, including the EU’s top leaders. Kouloglou told POLITICO that both hacks occurred during periods of “enormous preparation”...Read More

Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. For once, he became the target of hackers. “Dear User, this is Signal Security Support ChatBot. We have noticed suspicious activity on your device, which could have led to data leak,” read a message he received...Read More

A long-dormant Instagram account tied to former President Barack Obama’s White House abruptly sprang back to life over the weekend with hacked posts that quickly spread across the platform before being removed. The account @obamawhitehouse was briefly compromised on Sunday, publishing unauthorized content, including AI-generated images and politically charged messages, TMZ reported, before Meta, Instagram’s...Read More

We wanted to give folks a quick heads up that Pokemon has been hacked on X, also known by some still as Twitter. A suspicious message was just posted on the official account a few minutes ago. At first glance, it may seem safe… until you look at it for just a few seconds. The...Read More

A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers. The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities...Read More