US airman pleads guilty to leaking classified documents

Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard charged with leaking classified military documents on a social media platform, pleaded guilty on Monday to carrying out one of the most serious U.S. national security breaches in years. The Read More …

Third-party breach leads to American Express customer data compromise

Payment card provider American Express Company is warning customers that their credit card details may have been exposed following a breach involving a third-party provider. The details were first revealed in a filing with the State of Massachusetts, with a Read More …

New Banking Trojan “CHAVECLOAK” Targets Brazil

FortiGuard Labs recently uncovered a threat actor employing a malicious PDF file to propagate the banking Trojan CHAVECLOAK. This intricate attack involves the PDF downloading a ZIP file and subsequently utilizing DLL side-loading techniques to execute the final malware. Notably, Read More …

Three underwater data cables providing Internet through Red Sea are cut amid Al Houthi militant attacks

An incident in the Red Sea has cut three underwater sea cables providing internet and telecommunications around the world as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi militants, officials said on Monday. A statement by Hong Kong-based HGC Global Read More …

South Africa: CIPC cyber attack leaves millions of entities vulnerable across nation

Sensitive data of at least three-million entities and individuals who were registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) could have fallen into the wrong hands when the organisation’s database was hacked this week. Addresses, credit card details, ID Read More …

BiBi attacks Israel: Pro-Hamas hackers use new malware to attack Israeli companies

A wave of new cyberattacks from pro-Hamas hackers using the BiBi malware has been identified in Israel in recent days. This involves four new variants of malware that are able to evade antivirus engines, according to the VirusTotal platform. The Read More …

North Carolina: Around £2.1 million has been stolen from the housing agency as the US Secret Service is investigating

It is a little-known clothing firm based out of an anonymous residential street in Scotland’s biggest city, with overflowing bags and boxes of rubbish piled up outside its front door. But a Glasgow company is at the centre of a Read More …