Cyber Security News


  • Pentagon breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people

    September 29, 2026

    A breach of the Pentagon’s sprawling personnel database exposed sensitive information belonging to a massive swath of military personnel, including Social Security numbers and details about the jobs they held, according to a U.S. defense official. The breach affected 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased, the official said. The scope and sensitivity ...

  • Dutch police arrest ‘security researcher’ in ShinyHunters probe

    September 29, 2026

    Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of involvement with the prolific ShinyHunters cybercrime group. Cops announced the arrest on Monday night and said the Amsterdam resident would appear before judges at Rotterdam District Court today (Tuesday). Officers have not named the suspect. However, a company has identified a person they believe to be the ...

  • Italy’s top bank hit by an AI messaging scam which cost it nearly €100 million

    September 29, 2026

    Cybercriminals have tricked a major Italian bank into wiring more than $100 million abroad by targeting executives with AI-powered deepfakes. Some of the money has since been recovered, but a significant portion remains unaccounted for. The target was Fideuram – Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, a very large Italian private-banking and wealth-management group owned by Intesa Sanpaolo. ...

  • Fake iPhone Duo preorder scam triggers DarkSword attack

    September 29, 2026

    Apple announced its first foldable iPhone on September 9, and scammers were ready to ‘deliver’ one before anyone could buy it. Most of what MalwareBytes researchers found around the launch of the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro was familiar fraud. But one fake preorder page was different. Read more… Source:  MalwareBytes Labs Sign up for the Cyber Security Review ...

  • A former US Army soldier has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking telecoms companies

    September 28, 2026

    A former US Army soldier has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking telecoms companies, stealing sensitive records, and trying to extort more than $1 million from his victims. Cameron John Wagenius, 22, carried out the campaign while serving on active duty. He pleaded guilty in March 2025 to unlawfully transferring confidential phone records, ...

  • Recently disclosed Citrix vulnerabilities exploited in the wild

    September 28, 2026

    Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life. Perhaps it’s time to add attackers targeting newly discovered critical flaws in Citrix’s NetScaler application delivery controller and gateway products to that grim list. On Sunday, the company published a bulletin warning of eight CVEs, the worst of which – CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 – ...

  • FBI agents’ blood tests and doctors’ notes surface after breach

    September 28, 2026

    BBC News reports it has seen samples of stolen FBI agents’ medical examinations. The “fitness-for-work” reports identify FBI agents by name and address, and reveal even more personal details. They include blood and urine test results and doctors’ notes mentioning high cholesterol, blood in the urine, and even a shellfish and banana allergy. As we reported ...

  • Future Forces 2026: From Battlefield Lessons to Next-Generation Technology

    September 28, 2026

    21–23 October 2026 | International Exhibition and Professional Forum 24 October 2026 | Defence and Security Day for the Public From 21 to 23 October, PVA EXPO PRAGUE will host the sixteenth edition of the international Future Forces Exhibition & Forum (FF26) – one of the region’s biggest dates on the defence and security calendar. It brings ...

  • Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation

    September 27, 2026

    Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion ...

  • Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack

    September 25, 2026

    Technology giant Kiteworks is urging customers to shut down their systems after the company received information that hackers may attempt to target them. Kiteworks (formerly Accellion), which makes tools for transferring large files and sensitive datasets over the internet, confirmed to TechCrunch that it had notified its customers about a potential threat. The news was first ...

  • Australia: Rogue AI agents worked together for months to gain access to government health data

    September 24, 2026

    A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website. Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds ...