A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Kacper Pempel | Reuters Security audits weren’t enough to keep many cryptocurrency platforms safe from money-losing hacks, crypto market data site CoinGecko said in a report dated Aug. 27. Between January 2025 and…
Mustafau | Istock | Getty Images The stakes have never been higher for senior cybersecurity leaders at top companies. “It feels like my job has doubled or quadrupled,” said Wally Dalrymple, chief security officer at global education and talent solutions firm ETS. “It’s coming at us so fast and at such large volumes,” he said….
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Justice, NASA, and other federal agencies were victims of computer intrusion by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, the DOJ said on Wednesday morning as it announced the seizure of online domains used for hacking platforms. The hacking platforms, known as “QScan and QTRouter,” were “used to…
Fiber optic cables feed into switches inside a communications room at an office in London, UK, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A small power plant in the U.K. was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack carried out by hackers…
Daniel De La Hoz | Moment | Getty Images Even as companies devote more resources to cybersecurity, the number of reported data breaches involving consumers‘ personal data is on pace to surpass last year’s record. More than 471 million million victim notices were associated with data compromises in the first half of 2026, according to…
Hirun | Istock | Getty Images A string of recent AI hacking incidents has pushed cybersecurity to the forefront of the conversation, as labs race to develop agentic AI from their frontier models. Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic said models broke out of their testing environments and hacked into other companies. Following that, Meta announced…
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Cybersecurity executives are ready to close the book on the now-infamous Hugging Face artificial intelligence hacking incident and start talking solutions. “We need to chill the hype a little bit,” said Lior Div, CEO and cofounder of agentic security startup 7AI. “Can AI find vulnerabilities fast? The…
prediction market giant polymarket Confirmed that hackers stole funds from an unspecified number of users following a third-party breach. In an X post on ThursdayPolymarket said an agreement with a third-party vendor allowed hackers to insert malicious code into its website “for certain users.” The company said it has “contained” the incident and is now…
Notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of which are universities, a member of ShinyHunters told TechCrunch on Wednesday. there were violations first reported By BleepingComputer. PeopleSoft is enterprise software designed to manage payroll, human resources, administration, and other business operations. The news shows that…
FBI Director Kash Patel’s business website was taken offline Friday following reports that hackers had hijacked it in an attempt to infect visitors with malware. As first reported by Straight Arrow News. At the time of this writing, Based Apparel’s website is offline. On Thursday, an Posted The brand’s website apparently contained malware, specifically an…
