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Cyber Command Involved in Strikes on CaracasHere's what we don't know: Whether the Caracas grid outage triggered by the U.S. incursion was caused - or at least aided - by a cyberattack. A coordinated attack involving a cyber component against an adversarial electrical grid wouldn't be unprecedented.
Insurer's Hack Could Rank as Largest US Health Data Breach Reported in 2025Supplemental health insurer Aflac is notifying 22.65 million people whose sensitive health and personal information, including Social Security numbers, was potentially compromised in a June data theft incident. The incident will likely rank as the biggest U.S. health data breach reported in 2025.
For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineering data about Tampa Electric Company, Duke Energy Florida, and American Electric Power. The price is 6.5 bitcoin, which amounts to about $585,000.…
Indian Police Arrests Ex-Coinbase Staffer Over Data Breach ChargesThis week, a $7 million Trust Wallet extension hack, arrest of an ex-Coinbase support agent, the U.S. sued alleged perpetrators of a $14M scam, Polymarket hack update, early release scheduled for former Alameda CEO, backlash on Flow's post-exploit rollback plan and Grubhub-linked holiday Bitcoin scam.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator, from the specially designated nationals list
Americans Extorted at Least 5 Firms, Earning $1 Million From a Medical Device MakerTwo American cybersecurity professionals who moonlighted as BlackCat ransomware gang affiliates pleaded guilty to using the crypto-locking malware to extort at least five victims in the United States, including a medical device maker that paid a cryptocurrency ransom worth over $1 million.
Two former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint have pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks in 2023. [...]
CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch an actively exploited MongoDB vulnerability (MongoBleed) that can be exploited to steal credentials, API keys, and other sensitive data. [...]
Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on America's Boeing. Fast forward to the 21st century and the countries are applying the same model needs to the world of cloud computing, giving the continent a fighting chance to reduce the digital domination of Big Tech.…