Britain’s BT said it was spotting 2,000 signals of potential cyber-attacks across its network every second, as criminals were increasingly using disposable “bots” to try to evade existing blocking and security measures.
The telecoms group said on Thursday that digital surveillance activity by hackers using malicious scanning “bots” was 1,200% higher in July compared to the same month the previous year. BT also said that hackers were targeting the retail, education and hospitality industries as well as the defence and financial services sectors, their traditional hunting grounds.
Read more…
Source: Yahoo News
Related:
- OpenAI’s malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems
September 14, 2026
OpenAI agents appear to have flooded RubyGems with malicious packages, adding to a near-daily deluge of rogue AI models engaging in potentially unlawful activity while their human creators face growing questions over responsibility for their agents’ bad behavior. A swarm of agents began uploading malware to the Ruby package registry on May 5, and flooded RubyGems with more than 2,000 malicious packages between May ...
- Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
September 12, 2026
British fintech Revolut confirmed that it disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests sent from a legitimate government agency email domain. The exposed data included customers’ identity and contact details, including their birth date, postal and email addresses, and phone numbers, as well as copies of their identity documents including ...
- Crypto customers targeted by scammers after email marketing provider breach
September 11, 2026
An attacker breached an email marketing platform and launched targeted attacks against the newsletter subscribers of some of its customers, especially those working in cryptocurrency and adjacent fields. The incident was a supply-chain phishing campaign carried out through Brevo, an email marketing provider used by several cryptocurrency companies and other firms. Brevo initially said an attacker had ...
- The modern bank heist is already under way
September 11, 2026
The image of the bank robber is hopelessly outdated. Today’s heist does not begin with a getaway car outside a branch. It begins quietly, with an adversary establishing persistence inside a financial institution’s network and studying how the organisation responds, says Tom Kellermann, VP of AI Security and Threat Research at Trend AI. The objective is no longer ...
- A new Android attack combines malware and ransomware in a cocktail of cybercrime
September 11, 2026
Unique malware variant spotted targeting Android users. When threat actors target people’s devices, they usually infect it with one of many malware strains: an infostealer, a remote access trojan, a backdoor, or a ransomware encryptor. Rarely do we see all of these functionalities merged into a single entity, and even rarer – to have it target Android ...
- ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson
September 10, 2026
McKesson’s cyberattack last month affected roughly 6.4 million individuals, according to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The breach notification service added data leaked by serial extortionists ShinyHunters, revealing the scale of the attack for the first time. ShinyHunters initially claimed to have stolen 284 million documents from the medical and pharmaceutical supply company in August, although HIBP ...