In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies. In the months...
The city of Inman confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack. Officials said the hack took place back in June. The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office and FBI Cypher Crimes are still investigating.
City officials in Midway have confirmed a cybersecurity breach involving the police department’s SmartCOP system, raising concerns about the security of public records and sensitive documents.
Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation ANALYSIS From May's cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have...
GreyNoise observed 30,165 sessions from 64 unique IP addresses containing Well-known Out-of-band Interaction Domains during the week of January 3-9, 2026. Analysis reveals three distinct...
Overview Between January 10, 2026 06:10 UTC and January 17, 2026 04:59 UTC, GreyNoise sensors recorded 8,126 HTTP sessions from 34 unique IP addresses containing Well-known Out-of-band Interaction...
Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far...
In 2026, incident response (IR) will continue its shift away from traditional malware-centric investigations toward identity-driven intrusions, abuse of trusted cloud services, and low-signal,...
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Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for...
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been linked to a fresh set of credential harvesting attacks targeting individuals associated with a Turkish energy and nuclear research agency, as well...
“There can be no mistake about X’s knowledge, and, at best, negligent response to these trends,” the lawmakers wrote to company executives. The post Dems pressure Google, Apple to drop X app as...
As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge isn’t a lack of...
Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce continues to face uncertainty amid abrupt cuts to disaster response staff and planning emails that show FEMA has been contemplating deeper...
Water recycling treats wastewater so it can be used for drinking water, farming, housing, and industry. Communities across the U.S. also turn to water recycling to increase existing water...
The National Security Agency has a new leadership roster for its cybersecurity directorate as the agency waits for its first Senate-confirmed chief in more than nine months. David Imbordino, a NSA...
2026 will be a year of reckoning for the electric power industry. Major policy changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which axed most subsidies for clean energy and electric vehicles, are...
State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into...
Special Operations Command is exploring how artificial intelligence can process data gathered by its operators, according to a special notice, which also seeks industry information on facial...
Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in...
Copper demand is expected to skyrocket over the next two decades, according to new research from S&P, fueled in part by surging AI industry growth. Analysis from the consultancy shows demand for...
X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.
The authors of a hypothetical manual containing procedures repressive governments can use to stay in power despite restive populations would surely devote its first chapter to turning off the...
China is trying to address a key bottleneck in its national push for embodied artificial intelligence by employing human laborers to train humanoid robots. Local governments have reportedly...
Talos assesses with high confidence that UAT-7290 is a sophisticated threat actor falling under the China-nexus of Advanced Persistent Threat actors (APTs). UAT-7290 primarily targets...
Supply chain risk management company Everstream Analytics outlined that global supply chains are heading into a year defined less by isolated shocks and more by overlapping, high-probability...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it's retiring 10 emergency directives (Eds) that were issued between 2019 and 2024. The list of the directives now...
Security researchers have demonstrated a critical vulnerability in high-tech electric wheelchairs that allows for unauthorized remote control, highlighting new safety risks for connected mobility...
OpenAI claims that more than 230 million people worldwide each week ask large language model ChatGPT health and wellness-related questions, sometimes by uploading their own medical information....