Hacktivists claim near-total Spotify music scrape

Anna’s Archive claims it obtained metadata for around 256 million tracks and audio files for roughly 86 million songs, totaling close to 300 TB. Reportedly, this represents about 99.9% of Spotify’s catalog and roughly 99.6% of all streams. Spotify says Read More …

U.S. Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat Two Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Criminal Hacking Groups

The Justice Department announced two indictments in the Central District of California charging Ukrainian national Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya, for her role in conducting cyberattacks and computer intrusions against critical infrastructure and other Read More …

Canadian government claims hacktivists are attacking water and energy facilities

The Canadian government has issued a new security alert warning of so-called hacktivists targeting Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The report says the Cyber Centre and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has received “multiple reports” of incidents involving internet-accessible ICS. Among Read More …

Key Emerging Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges for 2025 and Beyond

The global threat landscape is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Organizations are facing dizzying levels of complexity, driven by rapid technological innovation, the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, and the expected disruptive effects of quantum computing. At the same time, shifting Read More …

Notes of cyber inspector: three clusters of threat in cyberspace

Hacktivism and geopolitically motivated APT groups have become a significant threat to many regions of the world in recent years, damaging infrastructure and important functions of government, business, and society. In late 2022 Kaspersky predicted that the involvement of hacktivist Read More …

Thailand-Cambodia conflict: Ceasefire fails online

Thailand and Cambodia may have reached a ceasefire to halt their border clashes, but cyber warriors are still battling online, daubing official websites with obscenities, deluging opponents with spam and taking pages down. The five-day conflict left more than 40 Read More …

Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime network

Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the cybercrime network NoName057(16). Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Czechia, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Read More …

FBI: Iranian Cyber Actors May Target Vulnerable US Networks and Entities of Interest

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), and the National Security Agency (NSA) (hereafter referred to as the authoring agencies) strongly urge organizations to remain vigilant for Read More …

Hacktivist groups led a massive surge in DDoS on US businesses following an attack on Iran

An abrupt and massive rise in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against U.S. businesses has coincided with Washington’s involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict. According to Radware’s Director of Threat Intelligence, Pascal Geenens, between June 21 and 22, 2025, hacktivist-led Read More …

US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content

A U.S. government website designed to inform the public about vaccines has been defaced and now hosts apparently AI-generated spam. The domain, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), appears to have been hosting the Read More …