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A Google securityΒ engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction market. 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen residing in Switzerland and a Google employee since 2014, appeared on Wednesday in the Southern District of New York. In parallel, the Commodity […]
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from 4.9 million accounts after hacking the U.S. telecom giant Charter Communications in early April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Charter has over 92,000 employees and provides internet, mobile, video, and voice services to more than 32 million customers and over 57 million […]
Anthropic has confirmed that it plans to bring Mythos-class models to the general public after delaying the rollout due to security risks to public and private software. Mythos wasΒ announced in April as a restricted model and was made available only to select companies, including security researchers. At that time, Anthropic cited major “security” risks with […]
A likely Russian threat group tracked as GreyVibe has been using AI-generated lures and a rich set of custom malware tools to target entities in the military, government, civilian, and business sectors. The cyberespionage campaign has been active since at least August 2025 and appears to align with Russian state interests, although researchers cannot confidently […]
An Android remote access trojan named BTMOB is offered to cybercriminals with a builder interface for generating malware payloads tailored to phishing lures. The malware provides a wide set of features that includes stealing specific data, intercepting financial transactions, capturing screenshots, and remote control capabilities. Cybersecurity company ESET says that BTMOB is openly advertised on […]
Hackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) in FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) to deliver an undocumented credential stealer called EKZ. The attacker disguised the malware as an update for Fortinet endpoints and executed it through VPN scripting workflows managed by FortiClient. The exploited critical vulnerability is an improper access control flaw that allows […]
The FBI is warning of fake websites impersonating FIFA ahead of the 2026 World Cup, to steal personal and financial information, sell fake tickets and hospitality packages, and push other fraud related to the event. With the international soccer tournament set between June 11 and July 19 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, threat […]
An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the Gogs self-hosted Git service can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-facing instances. Designed as an alternative to GitHub Enterprise or GitLab and written in Go, Gogs is often exposed online for remote collaboration. This critical severity argument injection security flaw has yet to be assigned a CVE […]
A Romanian national was sentenced this week to 56 months in federal prison for breaking into an Oregon state government computer network and fr cyberattacks targeting dozens of other U.S. victims. 46-year-old Catalin Dragomir (who used the online handle “inthematrixl”) of Constanta, Romania, pleaded guilty on February 19 to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of […]
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang in April 2026. The cruise line giant has over 160,000 employees and served around 13.5 million guests in 2024 via a fleet of over 90 ships. Carnival operates nine of the […]
