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Nikkei discloses breaches of employees’ Microsoft, Google email accounts
Over the weekend, Japanese publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that unknown attackers recently breached two employee email accounts and used one to send thousands of phishing emails. In a Sunday statement, the company said an employee’s Google Workspace account was accessed in late July, exposing the personal information of employees and business partners. Nikkei changed the […]
Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites
Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to hack U.S. and Canadian government websites to find school and divorce statistics. The failed breach attempts targeted a website under the U.S. Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada. However, the collected data shows no evidence of access to non-public information. Nonprofit research lab Transluce says […]
Bitget hacked via zero-day in third-party security products
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget revealed today that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week breached its systems after exploiting a zero-day flaw in third-party security products. According to Bitget, two separate investigations by blockchain security firm SlowMist and Google Cloud’s cyber-defense arm Mandiant said the threat actors accessed Bitget’s wallet environment after compromising two security appliances […]
Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals after $387.5 million crypto heist
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has resumed Bitcoin withdrawals suspended after suspected North Korean hackers breached its systems last week and stole over $350 million. Bitget added that it has addressed the security vulnerability exploited in the incident and will restore withdrawal services for all other supported assets and networks as soon as possible. It also shared […]
French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals
The French Ministry of the Economy and Finance has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems and stole data belonging to 678,000 individuals. This incident was discovered after a threat actor using the “ZeroBytes” handle claimed the attack and listed a stolen database for sale on […]
FBI: Hackers target online accounts to steal nude photos
The FBI warns that cybercriminals are targeting adults’ and children’s social media and other online accounts to steal sexually explicit images or videos. As the law enforcement agency explained in a public service announcement published this week, the attackers may use the stolen content to blackmail the victims or try to sell it on criminal […]
Man gets six years for hacking 750 women’s Snapchat accounts
An Illinois man was sentenced on Tuesday to 76 months in prison and three years of supervised release for hacking the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women to steal nude photos, which he later traded or sold online. After being charged in December, 26-year-old defendant Kyle Svara admitted in February to having used various social engineering tactics to phish […]
OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment. As the company explained, instead of focusing on finding a solution for the ExploitGym public AI cybersecurity benchmark on their own, the AI models tried to cheat by stealing […]
Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack
The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. According to an update from the platform yesterday, the attacker submitted illegitimate price reports disguised as valid ones, then rapidly opened and closed large positions to generate […]
Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent
The Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository disclosed that attackers gained access to internal datasets and credentials after breaching its production infrastructure using an autonomous AI agent system. Hugging Face is an open-source AI and machine learning platform that provides access to over 45,000 models from leading AI providers and is used by more than 50,000 […]