Security
Palo Alto Networks also targeted during Salesforce data heist
Palo Alto Networks (PAN), the largest cybersecurity company by market capitalization, will be disclosing a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases, BleepingComputer reports.
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“This is personal now:” Man fired after cyberattack wants Lapsus$ hackers to pay
Fired after a supposed cyberattack on his company, a former employee has declared war on the ransomware gang. The company says there was no cyberattack.
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Santa Fe County hack likely full of hot air
Attackers claim to have stolen source code from the Santa Fe County government website. However, the Cybernews research team believes that they’re peddling outdated information.
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Everyone can find your car, phone or other WiFi: what can you do about it?
You might not like it, but your WiFi devices are already mapped and used in vast, public location tracking systems without giving you anything in return. This means that attackers can accurately pinpoint where you are from a couch on another continent.
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“Invincible” hackers threaten Google, FBI over Salesforce attack investigations
Three teen cybercrime gangs, previously decimated by arrests, are now acting as one and again feeling invincible. After claiming responsibility for major breaches tied to Salesforce instances, the group is now demanding that Google and the FBI halt their investigations and fire specific employees.
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Don’t worry, your Gmail accounts might be secure after all
Google has denied claims that it informed Gmail users of a major security issue that supposedly affected 2.5 million users.
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Orange Belgium adds an additional check to number transfer process to prevent SIM swapping
After recently suffering a data breach, Orange Belgium has decided to implement an additional check against SIM swapping.
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Fresh AT&T data breach could impact 24M users, hackers claim
Attackers claim to have live access to AT&T infrastructure, which essentially allows them to bypass two-factor authentication tied to a specific phone number.
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The whole world depends on one overworked, underpaid developer, who might be from Moscow
A critical piece of code used by the Department of Defence and millions of others is being maintained by a single Russian developer. So what, some argue: half the internet runs on someone’s side project. The stir in the cybersecurity community highlights concerns over the influence nation-states can exert on individual maintainers.
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NCSC stumbles upon new malware campaign involving PDF editors and manual finders
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from the Netherlands has warned of a global campaign in which criminals are distributing seemingly innocent tools, such as a PDF editor or manual finder, to infect systems with malware.
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AI chatbots crawl website hundreds of times before sending a single actual visitor
Millions of crawls but just a few clicks – new data shows that AI chatbots are leeching attention away from publishers and site owners, harvesting their content but giving back very little traffic in return.
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433K US doctors’ data leaked online, hackers claim
Attackers claim the leaked details include everything from medical practitioners' names to home addresses. The Cybernews research team believes that the data could have come from a third-party service provider breach.
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Tea app says only 0.1% of users affected by breach – is it just the tip of the iceberg?
Tea Dating Advice, the “secure” platform for women to share sensitive information about their dates, has started sending breach notification letters a month after its much-publicized leak
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4chan and Kiwi Farms sue British regulator Ofcom over age verification
American internet forums 4chan and Kiwi Farms have sued the United Kingdom’s communication services regulator Ofcom over the recently adopted Online Safety Act.
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Users unaware their passkeys are hijacked, DEF CON 2025 shows
Passkeys were supposed to kill the password for good, but a new vulnerability revealed at DEF CON 2025 has shown the “golden solution” might have cracks of its own.
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Cybercriminals preparing for scam bonanza ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026
Domains created to take advantage of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 in the United States were recently found. It’s a sign of what’s to come for the big one – the 2026 World Cup.
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Breached accounts in 2025: the US has over 2M breaches in the first six months
According to Cybernews' Personal data leak checker tool, there were 20 times fewer breached accounts in the first half of 2025 than in the same period in 2024.
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AI becoming more dangerous in the hands of cybercriminals, Anthropic warns
The AI company Anthropic recently stopped a cybercriminal who used Claude Code to write phishing emails, create malicious code, and circumvent safety filters.
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4M+ exposed in TransUnion third-party data breach
TransUnion, one of America’s top three credit reporting agencies, reveals that millions of its US customers were exposed after hackers breached a third-party application.
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International cyber coalition releases advisory on Chinese APT threats, Salt Typhoon tops list
A new joint cybersecurity advisory released on Wednesday by over a dozen international law enforcement organizations exposes the inner workings of Beijing-backed threat groups, with Salt Typhoon topping the list.
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