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The UK’s data protection watchdog warns of an “ongoing failure” by the Metropolitan Police Service to restrict staff from using unauthorised IT services…
Computer Weekly
A roughly 2-year-old cyber-espionage campaign against Central Asian states appears to originate in Kazakhstan, researchers said.
The Record
Roughly 700 French supermarkets were hit by the cyberattacks, for which no group has claimed responsibility.
SecurityWeek
Guru Baran reports: Ransomware gangs are moving beyond locked files and stolen data. Criminals now threaten employees, executives, and their families to force companies to pay. According to the Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report, 37% of successful attacks included threats against workers’ friends or relatives. The findings show that ransomware is no longer only a……
DataBreaches.net
Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data breach has revealed that the data which was compromised in a cyberattack in 2025 goes back as far as 1978. The LAA on Wednesday announced……
DataBreaches.net
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs serving US businesses, which accounted for 16% of country-attributed targets. Similar attacks…
The Hacker News
US authorities have arrested two suspects and seized nearly 190 devices in a crackdown on North Korea’s fake remote IT workers. The FBI warns that the scheme is expanding to include identity theft, extortion and even threats of physical violence. North Korean operatives have been posing as US-based workers to quietly land remote IT jobs…
Bitdefender
Ransomware attackers are expanding their tactics beyond encrypting corporate systems and threatening to leak stolen data. They are increasingly using AI in attacks, exploiting organizations’ own AI systems and even using physical intimidation by threatening employees and their families to pressure companies into paying ransoms. The Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report found that 84% of…
CSO Online UK
Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, financial services, wholesale distribution, and IT across Japan, the United States, Australia, and India. Phishing kits and cloud accounts for sale Working with Resecurity, Microsoft identified three phishing kits sold through YAM…
Help Net Security
Researchers say the attacks have serious implications for the online advertising world, and regulators.
CyberScoop
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
TechCrunch
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
WIRED