A supermarket freezer is supposed to keep food cold. But one night, a manager finds melting ice cream and temperatures climbing, even though the machine is still running. The controller is following every command. It is just no longer following the owner’s orders, but someone else’s.That is roughly what hundreds of French supermarkets faced overnight...Read More

The federal government is demanding answers after an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated a Medicare website, as well as targeting other government sites. In the breach, the OpenAI agent accessed both public and private files as it tried to scoop up data. The government is stressing nobody’s personal Medicare details were accessed, that the research task...Read More

The FBI is investigating a claim by a cyber-crime group that it has stolen sensitive information on all bureau staff – around 38,000 people. The group, Shiny Hunters, says it has every agent’s name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information. Professor Ciaran Martin, the former head of...Read More

I’ve been a Cablevision customer since the early 1980s, when they rolled out that new-fangled “cable TV” contraption. A decade later they demonstrated another technological marvel — a cable modem, connecting to the internet — at Klein’s department store. I signed up on the spot, one of the first dozen or so here in Westport....Read More

It wasn’t a secret. It was a notification—a ransom note in over a hundred characters—that suddenly popped up on the mobile app of a popular fashion brand that has over 16 million active users globally. London-based fashion brand Asos saw a data breach by a group of hackers last Tuesday who posted an in-app notification...Read More

A customer enters an Intermarche supermarket in Issy-les-Moulineaux, on the outskirts of Paris, on October 12, 2026, , following a cyberattack affecting the French supermarket chains Intermarche and Cooperative U that caused their refrigerators to defrost. Dimitar Dilkoff | Afp | Getty Images Hackers targeted hundreds of French supermarkets in a cyberattack that reportedly caused...Read More

The FBI said Wednesday that it is investigating a notorious hacking group over its claims to have stolen data on agents. “The FBI is aware of a cyber-criminal enterprise group claiming a compromise of the FBIJobs.gov portal and alleged impact to FBI employee personally identifiable information (PII),” the FBI said in a statement. “While the...Read More

A crypto hardware wallet is supposed to be the one device nobody can touch remotely. On October 9, 2026, that assumption broke for hundreds of people in Southeast Asia. Ledger, the French hardware wallet maker, confirmed it is investigating asset losses tied to devices sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the...Read More

In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent...Read More

ShinyHunters claims it hacked the FBI and stole more than 2 TB of employee data – and this time it’s personal. The gang wants the Feds to correct the record on how it operates.  “This is NOT financially motivated,” a Shiny spokesperson told The Register. “We want the FBI to correct or retract their statements...Read More