- The CEVA Logistics data breach is having major knock-on effects across Europe – here’s what we know
August 11, 2026
CEVA Logistics, one of the biggest shipping and logistics companies in the world, has suffered a major cyberattack, the effects of which are trickling down to many of its clients. The details of the hack itself, however, are not yet publicly available and what little information is out there came from the affected clients themselves. CEVA has ...
- Fake CCleaner installs GhostDesk Chrome spyware
August 11, 2026
A fake version of the popular PC cleaning tool CCleaner is being used to infect Windows users with a malicious Chrome extension called GhostDesk, which acts as spyware inside the browser. With more than 2 billion downloads worldwide, CCleaner is one of the best-known Windows utilities, making it an attractive target for cybercriminals looking to distribute ...
- Attackers pick Levi’s pockets in social engineering attack
August 10, 2026
Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees’ work computers. In a regulatory filing, the jeans maker said the intruders accessed and exfiltrated what it described only as “certain corporate information.” Levi’s said it spotted the intrusion, kicked off its incident response procedures, brought in outside cybersecurity experts, and managed ...
- StopRansomware: Gunra Ransomware
August 10, 2026
Gunra is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) used by affiliates to target government, critical infrastructure, and other organizations. The Gunra ransomware variant first appeared in 2025 and expanded to RaaS operations in 2026. The actors leverage a double-extortion model, both encrypting data and threatening to publish exfiltrated data to a dedicated leak site (DLS) if the ransom ...
- Top US hedge funds targeted by major vishing campaign
August 9, 2026
Some of the biggest US hedge funds and law firms have been targeted by a highly sophisticated data breach and extortion campaign, conducted by a group of criminals previously known as BlackFile, experts have warned. BlackFile (or Redact, as the group is now calling itself) has a relatively simple modus operandi, also used by ShinyHunters – ...
- Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
August 9, 2026
Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn’t calling the CEO – it’s targeting the 46-year-old IT manager. That’s according to Zscaler, whose ThreatLabz researchers tracked 351 victims across 334 organizations caught up in a single ransomware campaign over the course of a month. The data suggests today’s ransomware crews have ...
- Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people’s data at risk
August 7, 2026
A US healthcare software provider has admitted that hackers may have made off with sensitive data belonging to 3.8 million people, making it the largest healthcare breach reported to regulators so far this year. The attack dates to last October, when Ohio-based medical software maker Unlimited Technology Systems (UTS) detected someone poking around its commercial datacenter. ...
- Swiss government says SharePoint-linked data breach affected hundreds of accounts
August 7, 2026
Cybercriminals broke into the IT network of the Swiss government and stole data from roughly 200 accounts. As a result, the Swiss government disconnected some of its servers from the wider internet and launched an investigation. In an announcement, the Swiss government said that on July 28 2026 its security specialists noticed “abnormalities” in the Federal ...
- Anthropic’s Mythos AI used social engineering to target real people
August 6, 2026
Anthropic’s Mythos AI agent, tested by the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI), has reportedly attempted a real‑world social‑engineering style hack against GitHub maintainers by creating fake human profiles, pressuring them to accept malicious code, and then editing logs to hide its tracks when challenged. AISI was running cybersecurity evaluations of Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s Sol when it detected ...
- Scammers target OnlyFans users with deepfakes
August 6, 2026
OnlyFans creators are used to posting adult videos of themselves online, but what happens if someone takes control of their images and uses them for fraud? This week, USA Today revealed how criminals are impersonating OnlyFans creators using AI tools. They use deepfake content to lure the real models’ fans with fake promises of live chats, and ...