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Government office building in Edinburgh with survey equipment cases and hard drives stacked near an unsecured loading area, clipboard with employee rosters visi
Breaches

A Survey Company May Have Leaked Scottish Government Workers' Personal Details

A contractor hired to run a government training exercise lost staff data from Scotland's public prosecution service. The real worry: dozens of other agencies probably handed over the same information.

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A warehouse or logistics facility with packages being processed on conveyor systems, security breach notification on nearby computer screen, shipping labels and
Breaches

Trezor customers exposed after shipping partner ShipMonk is hacked

Roughly 13,700 buyers of the hardware wallet had names, addresses and phone numbers stolen through a third-party logistics breach.

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Threat Intelligence

Nearly One in Three UK Manufacturers Hit by a Cyber Attack, Survey Finds

A new survey reveals that nearly a third of British manufacturers were hit last year, and half had no plan ready when trouble arrived.

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A computer screen showing social media account login pages and cloud storage interfaces, with digital threat graphics indicating unauthorized access attempts an
Identity & Access

FBI warns criminals are hunting nude photos in hacked accounts

The bureau says attackers are breaking into social media and cloud accounts to steal intimate images, then using them for blackmail, resale on criminal sites, and follow-on sextortion attacks against victims and their families.

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A messaging application interface on a smartphone displaying key verification status, with cryptographic elements and security confirmations visible on the scre
Identity & Access

Signal Rolls Out Automatic Key Verification to Blunt Interception Attempts

The messaging app adds a key transparency layer, audited by Cloudflare and Trail of Bits, following a year of targeted phishing linked to Russian state-aligned clusters tracked as UNC5792 and UNC4221.

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A mobile phone screen showing Google Chrome browser with notification popups being blocked and filtered, junk notification examples appearing and disappearing,
Threat Intelligence

Chrome Now Blocks 7 Billion Junk Notifications a Day on Android

Google's browser is quietly killing off scam pop-ups at the source, using layered checks that yank permissions from sites behaving badly.

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Close-up of a credit card being held over a glowing smartphone screen displaying a streaming service login page, with warning indicators and suspicious ad banne
Threat Intelligence

Fake 'Watch The Odyssey Free Online' Sites Are Stealing Bank Details From Film Fans

Criminals are buying ads for bogus streaming pages tied to the summer's biggest blockbuster. If you hand over your card number for the 'free trial', your money goes with it.

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Threat Intelligence

Delta Investigates Rogue Wi-Fi Network on Flight Carrying DEF CON Attendees

Passengers returning from the Las Vegas hacker conference allegedly knocked others off the plane's Wi-Fi and stood up a fake 'Delta WiFi Fast' network that harvested Google logins.

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A conference stage bathed in spotlight, where a presenter in Victorian-era deerstalker hat and coat stands before a projection screen filled with social enginee
Threat Intelligence

The World's Greatest Detective Was Also the World's Greatest Con Artist

A cybersecurity professor dressed as Sherlock Holmes walked a DEF CON audience through why the tricks criminals use to manipulate people today are identical to what a Victorian fictional detective pulled off in the 1890s.

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Threat Intelligence

Kimsuky Goes Offline: North Korean Spies Build Their Own Private AI Toolkit

South Korean researchers say the Kimsuky group has stopped relying on public chatbots and is now running AI on its own servers to sharpen phishing and speed up malware writing.

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Identity & Access

Passwords Are Getting Easier to Fake. Device Trust Is the Fix Companies Are Reaching For.

AI is turbocharging phishing and credential theft, and the old signals that told a company a login was fine are quietly failing. Here is what is replacing them.

4 min read
A security research lab where laptops are positioned showing passkey authentication flows on their screens, with physical security keys scattered on the desk, r
Identity & Access

Passkeys Aren't Bulletproof: Three New Attacks Sidestep the 'Phishing-Proof' Login

Researchers show how signed login material, malware on synced devices, and clever redirection can defeat passkeys without cracking a single key.

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A shipping warehouse with rows of packages and pallets, security cameras mounted on walls, a forensic investigator in safety vest examining a compromised comput
Breaches

Valve tells European Steam customers their delivery details were stolen in CEVA Logistics hack

The gaming giant says names, addresses and phone numbers were taken after attackers spent four days inside its European shipping partner's systems.

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A tech support inbox flooded with hundreds of automated emails and low-quality submissions piling up on a desktop, with a tired security researcher in the backg
Threat Intelligence

AI-Generated Junk Is Clogging Apple's Bug Bounty, Ports Got Hit, and Wall Street Had a Bad Week Online

Three quieter stories from the past week: why Apple's security researchers are drowning in AI noise, how North Carolina ports came under digital attack, and a phishing email that opened a door into Wall Street.

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AI Security

AI Is Making Data Breaches More Expensive. Here's What the Numbers Actually Say.

IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report puts the average global figure at $6 million, up 35% on last year, with one in four malicious incidents now involving AI-powered techniques.

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