Governor Tim Walz has called in the Minnesota National Guard to help rectify the cybersecurity of the City of St. Paul after it suffered a major attack. City workers discovered “suspicious” activity on its network on Friday, 25 July, declaring a state of emergency and launching an immediate
OpenAI’s latest AI system, ChatGPT Agent, launched a few weeks ago, is capable of performing complex tasks, including bypassing Cloudflare’s “I Am Not a Robot” verification. The agent's ability to autonomously navigate human verification protocols marks a notable milestone in AI
The hacker group Scattered Spider has been carrying out aggressive campaigns targeting U.S. companies. In recent attacks, the group has employed sophisticated social engineering techniques to gain access to internal systems of American businesses, enabling them to compromise VMware vCenter Server
The ransomware gang World Leaks — formerly known as Hunters International — claims to have breached the American tech giant Dell Technologies Inc. and leaked 1.3 TB of data. The leak reportedly contains 416,103 files, all of which are publicly available for download. Dell has confirmed the breach
The British transportation company KNP Logistics Group Limited (KNP) was one of thousands of businesses hit by the recent wave of cyberattacks led by multiple ransomware gangs and announced that it must shut down. The company could not pay the ransom, and its investigation revealed that hackers
The CEO of Co‑operative Group Limited, Shirine Khoury-Haq, admitted that 6.5 million members of its internal system had their data stolen during a recent cyberattack. She apologized during an interview with the BBC on Wednesday. According to the statements shared by the BBC, Khoury-Haq confirmed
Cybersecurity researchers were able to access the personal information of tens of millions of McDonald’s job applicants after gaining unauthorized entry to the “McHire” site. The AI hiring platform was using the default login credentials with the username “admin” and password “123456” for a staff
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory on July 10, warning about a vulnerability in the key train system that could allow hackers to send brake control commands remotely and cause significant disruption. The vulnerability was first reported in
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned North Korean cyber actor Song Kum Hyok, a member of the hacking group Andariel, for his leading role in a large information technology (IT) worker scheme. According to the official statement, Song
The Italian police have allegedly arrested Chinese citizen Xu Zewei, wanted by the FBI, at the Malpensa Airport in Milan on July 3, 2025. The Chinese hacker is accused of stealing COVID-19 vaccine information from the U.S. and working for Hafnium, a Chinese government-backed hacking group. The