The personal and professional data of nearly 700,000 French taxpayers has been stolen in a cyberattack targeting France’s tax authority, the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP). France’s Finance Minister, Roland Lescure said on August 13 that a malicious actor had gained unauthorized access to the DGFiP’s information systems inContinue Reading
Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exploits. The researchers recovered noContinue Reading
Two U.S. Army websites were briefly defaced by suspected hacktivists, with altered error pages displaying pro-Kurdish messages and criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump. According to CyberScoop, the affected websites belonged to the U.S. Army’s Open Innovation Lab and AI Integration Center, which focus on testing and integrating artificial intelligenceContinue Reading
Tokyo — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. has disclosed that it was specifically targeted in a cyberattack that may have exposed sensitive personal information belonging to current and former employees, following a security incident involving Oracle’s systems. According to Nissan Americas, the company was notified by Oracle of “a cyberContinue Reading
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerabilityContinue Reading
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026. TheContinue Reading
The Toronto Police Service has announced multiple arrests in what authorities describe as a groundbreaking cybercrime investigation involving the use of a mobile “SMS blaster.” The operation uncovered a sophisticated device designed to mimic a legitimate cellular tower. This technology enabled suspects to broadcast fraudulent text messages directly to nearbyContinue Reading
