Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline

Dutch grocery giant Ahold Delhaize, which operates US supermarket chains Food Lion, Giant Food, and Stop & Shop, said it proactively took IT systems offline following a cyberattack, affecting most of its US and European brands. The multinational chain originally Read More …

Data breach sees Burger King Japan expose over 11 million customer records

The Japanese subsidiary of Burger King has confirmed suffering a data breach and apologized for losing sensitive data on millions of customers. In a breach notification letter, Burger King Japan confirmed the exact date of the breach, as well as Read More …

Millions of California students’ sensitive data stolen in breach

Personal information belonging to millions of current and former California public school students has been stolen from a system operated by Educational Testing Service (ETS). ETS is a nonprofit organization that helps run the state’s standardized tests under contract with Read More …

A fake WatchGuard VPN site is stealing your passwords

A fraudulent WatchGuard download website stole VPN login details while supplying the authentic installation package, experts have claimed. Security investigators at Huntress traced the activity to a lookalike domain that collected connection details before downloading the legitimate client. The investigation Read More …

Cyber threat actors use a variety of techniques to target election and campaign officials

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are providing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to raise awareness of the cyber threats facing election and campaign officials during the upcoming 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Read More …

Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts

The US’ bankruptcy courts are currently down owing to what officials are calling a “cybersecurity incident.” The Administrative Office of the US Courts said the websites and systems that support the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which manages electronic comms related Read More …

AI-Powered Espionage Campaign Targets Government Linux Infrastructure

Unit 42 identified a campaign targeting government entities and state-affiliated infrastructure, with observed activity spanning from October 2025–April 2026. We track this activity as CL-UNK-1211. In the operations we witnessed, the attackers relied on AI-generated payloads. Multiple artifacts deployed throughout Read More …

Governments are hacking people with ‘zero-click’ spyware by showing them online ads

Security researchers at digital rights unit The Citizen Lab say government spyware makers are abusing global advertising networks to target and hack devices by serving malicious online adverts. A new report published Thursday by the University of Toronto lab, which Read More …

The hidden network: Inside the phishing infrastructure ecosystem powering global cybercrime

Over the past year, Microsoft uncovered a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem, an interconnected network of phishing kit operators, developers, and an illicit marketplace selling tools and infrastructure for large-scale phishing, enabling cybercriminal operations worldwide. Threat actors purchased and used these tools Read More …

Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant

Unit 42 investigated a multi-stage network intrusion against a telecommunications organization that occurred in September 2024, which we are tracking as cluster CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820). The attackers behind CL-STA-0954 achieved an initial compromise by exploiting CVE-2024-47575 against a centralized FortiManager Read More …