- P&O Ferries data blunder as it sends out passengers’ personal details by text message
August 31, 2026
P&O Ferries was hit by a data breach after mistakenly sending out a full list of passengers’ personal details by text message this morning, we can reveal. A blunder saw the details of 432 passengers travelling on the 12pm P&O ferry from Calais to Dover sent as an attachment in a customer services text message. It is ...
- Healthcare data breach exposes 3.75M patient records
August 30, 2026
Hackers stole medical records, Social Security numbers, government IDs and financial data from millions of CareCloud patients You can be careful with your passwords and still get caught in a breach at a company you may have never heard of. That is one of the frustrating parts of the CareCloud data breach. More than 3.75 million ...
- Judge rules the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label for Anthropic unlawful
August 28, 2026
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon’s decision to label AI company Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’ violated the law and ordered the designation be removed Thursday evening. Judge Rita Lin wrote that while the military should have wide latitude to decide which companies to work with, its actions against Anthropic “constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of ...
- TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion
August 28, 2026
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed a TerminalFix campaign, a variant of ClickFix, targeting organizations across multiple industries. The campaign uses compromised websites to display a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA verification overlay that tricks users into copying and executing a malicious PowerShell command. While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply ...
- PaperCut NG/MF Critical Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
August 28, 2026
On August 27, 2026, PaperCut Software published an urgent security advisory stating that it is investigating active exploitation of a vulnerability affecting PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF. PaperCut has confirmed customer incidents and is treating the issue as a security emergency. At the initial time of disclosure, the vulnerability had not been assigned a CVE identifier, and ...
- Australian police arrest alleged TeamPCP masterminds
August 28, 2026
The Australian city of Perth is by some measures the world’s most isolated major metropolis, but is still sufficiently connected to US law enforcement authorities that the FBI was able to help Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) to find two men they believe were the masterminds of TeamPCP, a cybercrime crew that conducted prominent supply chain ...
- Identity-as-a-Service: Uncovering Dark Web Marketplaces Trading Executive SSNs
August 27, 2026
Despite modern verification controls, identity theft remains one of the most pervasive threats to both individuals and enterprise organizations. U.S. Federal Trade Commission statistics show over 1 million identity theft reports annually, with related fraud and imposter scams accounting for billions in financial losses each year. While stolen credit cards enable rapid, short-term monetization, Social ...
- An open letter for a global surge in cyber defense
August 27, 2026
We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses. In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable. The companies and public services our communities depend on—from hospitals to water treatment plants to the infrastructure that powers the internet—are at risk. Today’s AI advances ...
- Millions of UK airport customer details accessed in major cyberattack
August 27, 2026
A cyber security breach targeting three major UK airports has led to the personal data of around 8.7 million customers being accessed, operator Manchester Airport Group (MAG) has confirmed. The group, which oversees Manchester Airport, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport, assured the public that “at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised”, adding that no payment or banking details ...
- New Instagram and Facebook rules set a default two-hour limit for teens
August 27, 2026
Meta decided that discretion was the better part of valor on Wednesday, agreeing to settle a landmark child safety case for up to $17 billion. The agreement would introduce a default two-hour daily limit for teens on Instagram and Facebook, overnight restrictions, and a range of other protections. It also brings the trial to an early end before ...
- China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems
August 26, 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, and Cyber National Mission Force are releasing this joint cybersecurity advisory to alert organizations concerning China-linked cyber threat actors, who use the acronyms QTFY, QT, and QTCYBER for themselves and their tools and have developed malicious distributed platforms to compromise the networks of US and foreign organizations. ...
- Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations
August 26, 2026
A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday. This is the latest health tech giant to face a cyberattack in recent weeks. The Massachusetts-based company, which makes medically implanted devices like pacemakers and defibrillators, confirmed in a filing with the ...
- ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach
August 24, 2026
ShinyHunters has claimed another cybersecurity scalp, but ReliaQuest says the crew’s social engineering attack only got as far as one employee identity before its defenses slammed the door. The ransomware baddies listed US-based infosec biz ReliaQuest on its leak site on August 23, claiming the corporation as its latest victim. The listing, seen by The Register, links to ...
- Experts warn 2,000 hacked WordPress sites were secretly running a global crime ring
August 22, 2026
Check Point Research has unearthed a global cybercrime ring that relied on a network of WordPress websites. The investigation into an operation dubbed “StopAndProtect” found a network of 5,000 infected computers around the globe, and 2,000 WordPress domains. WordPress currently provides content management for around 43% of websites worldwide, making it the most significant CMS available. ...
- Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants
August 21, 2026
Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident in a letter filed with California’s ...
- Securing the overlooked corners of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) supply chain
August 21, 2026
While supply chain threats have been quietly compounding over the past decade, the last 12–18 months have triggered a drastic shift in the scale and velocity of these attacks. Rather than just hunting for bugs in finished software, attackers are targeting the everyday tools and code developers rely on. Unit 42 research shows this happening at ...
- Zombie Card: An expired Visa credit card can be used for purchases
August 21, 2026
Did you know there is still a good reason to physically destroy your expired credit card? Scientific research found that the expiration date used by payment terminals on some contactless cards was not effectively protected against tampering. University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers Raja Hasnain Anwar, Gerard DeCunha, and Muhammad Taqi Raza tested contactless cards across Visa, Mastercard, Discover, ...