Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records
More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.
Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret U.S. government surveillance, sounds new alarm over ‘CIA activities’
The two-line letter to the CIA’s director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.
China’s Salt Typhoon hackers broke into Norwegian companies
Norway’s government accused China’s Salt Typhoon hacking group of conducting a cyberespionage campaign in the country.
One of Europe’s largest universities knocked offline for days after cyberattack
An alleged ransomware attack has taken down the systems of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans
The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a “significant number of individuals’ personal information” from the govtech giant’s systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America.
Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.
Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’
The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.
Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says
The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of default usernames and passwords.
Fintech firm Marquis blames hack at firewall provider SonicWall for its data breach
The fintech giant said it plans to “seek recoupment of any expenses” from its firewall provider SonicWall after a 2025 data breach exposed customer firewall configurations.
Trump’s acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT
A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse.